Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem.  I don’t remember ...

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Biden and his national security team believe they can “contain” China; they can’t.  The U.S.-China relationship is important ...

On December 15, an Israeli missile struck the third floor of a UNRWA school in al Mawasi camp outside Khan Younis, killing ...

When I first meet the fisherman Gerardo Delgado, he is sitting in his boat, surrounded by pelicans, off the shore of Lake ...

It’s been a bad few months for democracy. Election results offensive to the European Union were annulled in Romania; an ...

Christmas is a dangerous time, for it threatens social instability, political disorder, even revolution. At the culmination ...

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Initial reconnaissance I’m a recent expat, living in England. If I’m not envied now by my friends back in the states, I will ...

I realize that I've said this before but there really is no more room left for interpretation. Israel is engaged in a ...

Dictionaries have selected enshittification, brain-rot and polarization as their 2024 Words of the Year. Each are ...

The bombardment of Gaza is relentless, indiscriminate and all encompassing, and whilst weak Western governments refuse to ...