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China’s leaders believe the only purpose of nuclear weapons is to allay the fear of a nuclear attack. But they are worried. The US has refused to rule out a nuclear first strike, and they’re dealing with a hostile and very impulsive US president.

As Covid-19 interrupts mass mobilizations in Chile, women are creating political tapestries to resist state violence and inequalities. Making arpilleras is a form of resistance associated with the dictatorship era that is again flourishing.

Trump’s defense of Confederate culture is not only a defense of racism, but also of other Old South born attitudes towards women, guns, abortion, evangelical Christianity, paramilitary policing, crime and punishment, and the role of government.

“I don’t think in a social revolution you can always retain support of the moderates.”

'Cheating is a way of life'

The imperial power that we veterans fought for abroad is the same one some of us are now struggling against at home and the two couldn’t be more intimately linked. Our struggle is, at least in part, over who gets to define patriotism.

And some of it seems to have been inspired by Elizabeth Warren

Once the slurs and caricatures are gone, we're left to reconcile the erasure, tokenization, and colonization that exist beyond them

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