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The Race That Can’t Be Won

Jessica T. Mathews The New York Review of Books
A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one.

The Left Wins Presidential Election in Sri Lanka

Atul Chandra, Vijay Prashad CounterPunch
Whether Dissanayake will be able to deliver on this program of economic sovereignty is to be seen. However, his victory has certainly encouraged a new generation.

Operation Dixie Failed but Pushed Racial Equality Forward

William P. Jones, Benjamin Y. Fong Jacobin
The famous Operation Dixie campaign to unionize the South in the 1940s was mostly unsuccessful. Still, it left a positive mark on American society. It’s even possible that the civil rights movement wouldn't have staged the March on Washington without