Yesterday the inventive, genre-bending writer John Crowley died. An acclaimed author of fantasy and science fiction and ...
Milli Lake is Assistant Professor of International Security and Political Science at the London School of Economics. She codirects the Women’s Rights After War Project and is author of Strong NGOs and ...
Aslı Ü. Bâli is Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
A conversation with Omer Bartov on the fate of Zionism, the “non-debate” about the uniqueness of the Holocaust, and impunity for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Police officers often use the charge of “resisting arrest” to criminalize black people who try to defend themselves from brutal, punitive, and often illegal police actions. They also do so to justify ...
Climate politics are in a very weird place right now. On the one hand, current events would seem to be fertile ground—perhaps more fertile than ever—for generating popular support for climate action.
For many conservative pundits, the election of Donald Trump marked the moment when the Republican Party abandoned its longstanding claim to being the “party of ideas.” For example, in June 2017 ...
When Helen Vendler’s and Marjorie Perloff’s names appear in the same sentence, they are often being held up as polar opposites: the academy’s two “grandes dames” of poetics scholarship whose ...
For half a century the debate around nuclear energy has produced more heat than light, inspiring impassioned discourse on all sides. But given the many urgent imperatives for rapidly transitioning our ...
On February 2, 1977, Palestinian poet Rashid Hussein died in his New York apartment. Hussein had been born forty-one years earlier in Musmus, a town not far from Nazareth. Politics for Hussein, Edward ...
When James Baldwin visited San Francisco in 1963 to film a documentary about U.S. racism, he encountered neighborhoods in turmoil: the city was seizing properties through eminent domain, razing them, ...
In 1972 the socialist left swept to power in Jamaica. Calling for the strengthening of workers’ rights, the nationalization of industries, and the expansion of the island’s welfare state, the People’s ...