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How should LGBT activism think about state power?
Before I left him /
on his deathbed, my father used to say
the ice is breathing: this quivering song
of things once-broken, mending. /
This song of them breaking again.
The solidarity movement doesn’t have a single leader—and it doesn’t need one.
You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.
It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end.
For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?
Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.
The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.
The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.
Lionel Trilling crystallizes the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.
The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.
Why is the reality of Palestinian suffering denied in the Israeli consciousness?
An interview with poet Fady Joudah about writing his latest collection, […], amid war in Gaza.
A Vietnam veteran on the political legacy of self-sacrifice and the necessity of war resistance.
While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging.
Germany has responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, marking a new wave of militarization.
How the Kremlin weaponizes “traditional values,” portraying LGBT rights as existential threats to the nation.
On the importance of women’s studies after the USSR collapsed, and what it helps us understand about Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Condemning Putin’s war must go hand in hand with imagining a more just security order.
AI-generated novels are here, but they hardly spell the end of fiction.
Generative AI has made it possible to create lifelike models of real people. Should we?
Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.
AI can be used to increase human productivity, create jobs and shared prosperity, and protect and bolster democratic freedoms—but only if we modify our approach.
Justice demands that we think not just about profit or performance, but above all about purpose.
in 1989 you walk the main road to /
Tiananmen when the inexplicable /
hits
Why didn’t I just say / people like us here / at this table / should not just talk about politics
Relying a little less on the odd language we’d been left inside / we turned back to feeling: — / more moan, more mumble.
How can you have thoughts without words? The man turned back to his coffee and drank. It was cold. Breakfast was done. Time to move on.
What would a just state look like, and how can we get there?
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò leads a forum with responses from Thea Riofrancos, Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie, Ishac Diwan & Bright Simons, and others. Plus Leila Farsakh on Palestinian statehood, Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on a “solidarity state,” Joshua Craze on rule by militia, and much more.
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