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Little Amal at the 2022 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, New York City.

We Like the Idea of Asylum Seekers, but Not the Real Thing We Like the Idea of Asylum Seekers, but Not the Real Thing

The 12-foot-tall puppet of a Syrian refugee has been welcomed in New York and around the world. Real refugees? Not so much.

Sep 28, 2022 / Helen Benedict

Who Owns the Internet?

Who Owns the Internet? Who Owns the Internet?

Ben Tarnoff's history of networked life and the rise of a corporate-controlled web doubles as a polemic, arguing for a people-first Internet.

Sep 28, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Evan Malmgren

“Art as Solidarity” and Little Amal

“Art as Solidarity” and Little Amal “Art as Solidarity” and Little Amal

Little Amal visited Andrea Arroyo’s exhibition “Art as Solidarity,” which is on view on the facade of the United Palace in Upper Manhattan.

Sep 27, 2022 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Hua Hsu’s Lesson in Friendship

Hua Hsu’s Lesson in Friendship Hua Hsu’s Lesson in Friendship

His memoir Stay True is a moving portrait of friends, death, doubt, and everything in between.

Sep 27, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho

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Letters: Shinzo Abe’s Legacy Letters: Shinzo Abe’s Legacy

Readers offer further insights on the former Japanese prime minister's vexed relationship with history.

Sep 27, 2022 / Our Readers

NPR Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg wears a face mask with depictions of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

NPR’s Nina Totenberg, Friend of the Reactionary Court NPR’s Nina Totenberg, Friend of the Reactionary Court

How the supposedly liberal media protected a right-wing Supreme Court.

Sep 26, 2022 / Jeet Heer

The Searching Poetry of Safia Elhillo

The Searching Poetry of Safia Elhillo The Searching Poetry of Safia Elhillo

Her two poetry collections are rich with images of homeland, movement, history, and the future.

Sep 26, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Yasmine Seale

In this April 14, 1964, black-and-white file photo, a man holds a Confederate flag at right, as demonstrators, including one carrying a sign reading, “More than 300,000 Negroes are Denied Vote in Ala,” demonstrate in front of an Indianapolis hotel where then–Alabama Governor George Wallace was staying.

David Leonhardt’s Centrist Nostalgia Won’t Save Democracy David Leonhardt’s Centrist Nostalgia Won’t Save Democracy

Jim Crow wasn’t an exception—but a model for the future.

Sep 23, 2022 / Jeet Heer

A Poet Confronts the Violent History of El Salvador

A Poet Confronts the Violent History of El Salvador A Poet Confronts the Violent History of El Salvador

Christopher Soto’s Diaries of a Terrorist grapples with the the security ideology that shapes the Americas through poems that explore activism and resistance.

Sep 22, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Danielle Mackey

Chinese American community leader Ying Lee Kelley

Remembering Ying Lee Remembering Ying Lee

Looking back at the life of a trailblazing activist and Berkeley’s first Asian American city council member.

Sep 21, 2022 / David Bacon

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