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If Thomas Friedman’s fairytale world of light-versus-darkness were to evaporate, less noble motives for U.S. and Israeli actions might be revealed.

Switching gears

Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’

Who You Gonna Call? (1965), THIS Is Why Haiti Is So Impoverished (1825), ‘Fight—Don't Starve!’ (1930), One Pipeline Too Many (2020), Happy Birthday to The Nation (1865), Mercury Poisoning at Its Worst (1975), Cuba Stands Up to Uncle Sam (1960)

In order to be effective, abundance policy must benefit and build power for working- and middle-class Americans—rather than enriching and empowering concentrated economic interests and generating populist backlash that undermines democracy.

Since 2021, the Eastern Kentucky Remembrance Project has been planting markers memorializing Black residents killed by racist violence. On 31 May, a historical marker was placed outside the former Wayland jail where Fred Shannon was killed in 1924.

Haiti’s current form of “checkpoint governance” represents a structural transformation in how politics works in the country. What defines Haiti now is an impasse—a condition of blockage and immobility that traps millions in place.

A reactor in Tehran is a monument to the U.S. relationship with Iran when the country was led by a secular, pro-Western monarch.

An anthropologist investigates how archaeology helped the U.S. colonize the Panama Canal Zone—just as the current U.S. government threatens to retake it.

The court’s ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood twists logic, common sense, and the law to further the right-wing assault on bodily autonomy.