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Tokyo’s Games Are Harming the Nuclear Weapons Ban Movement

Tokyo’s Games Are Harming the Nuclear Weapons Ban Movement Tokyo’s Games Are Harming the Nuclear Weapons Ban Movement

By paying lip service to the Fukushima disaster and the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan, these games are downplaying the growing danger of nuclear catastrophe.

Jul 29, 2021 / Alyn Ware

Military Coronavirus

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Viruses? What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Viruses?

As in previous pandemics, a rise in xenophobic, nationalistic, and militaristic language has returned amid the Covid-19 crisis.

Jul 29, 2021 / StudentNation / Zoya Qureshi

What the Harlem Cultural Festival Represented

What the Harlem Cultural Festival Represented What the Harlem Cultural Festival Represented

Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary Summer of Soul, revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.

Jul 29, 2021 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu

A cell block of Cummins Unit

Democrats Must Control the Crime Narrative Before It Controls Them Democrats Must Control the Crime Narrative Before It Controls Them

Democrats should offer their own 21st-century vision for reducing crime.

Jul 28, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Spread the Word

Spread the Word Spread the Word

Fighting hate is the battle.

Jul 28, 2021 / OppArt / Gabriel Thomas

Lebanon

The Trouble With ‘the LGBT Community’ The Trouble With ‘the LGBT Community’

Under capitalism, LGBT has become a convenient acronym to sell rainbow flags and political candidates.

Jul 28, 2021 / Rasha Younes

Cuba Fincimex

Democrats Are Sticking to Trump’s Cuba Policies Democrats Are Sticking to Trump’s Cuba Policies

Party leadership blocked an amendment to roll back restrictions on the amount of money people in the US can send to their families in Cuba.

Jul 28, 2021 / Aída Chávez

America Isn’t ‘Back.’ Here’s Why.

America Isn’t ‘Back.’ Here’s Why. America Isn’t ‘Back.’ Here’s Why.

Two decades of forever wars created a failing empire. Biden’s foreign policy is just continuing the destructive legacy.

Jul 28, 2021 / Tom Engelhardt

Morales Supporters Gather Outside

Diagnosing the Morales Campaign Meltdown Diagnosing the Morales Campaign Meltdown

It all sounds like a bad family therapy session. What does the psychiatric literature have to say?

Jul 28, 2021 / Column / Alexis Grenell

What Happened to Andrew Cuomo?

What Happened to Andrew Cuomo? What Happened to Andrew Cuomo?

Ross Barkan’s The Prince tracks how the son of a progressive New York governor transformed into one focused on one thing above all else: power.

Jul 28, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Raina Lipsitz

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