Ava DuVernay Thinks Little Brown Girls Should Be Space Travelers, Too

Mattie Kahn Elle
People seem to think that a movie or a television show or a book is "diverse" when there are "one or two black people or brown people, or one girl or a couple of girls," DuVernay says. "Inclusion is really half—half of the cast, half of the directors, half of the writers are women or girls, half of the room, more than half of the room is of color," she says. "I think we get really satisfied with less.

A Wide World of Winless War

Nick Turse TomDispatch
Globe-Trotting U.S. Special Ops Forces Already Deployed to 137 Nations in 2017.

Myths of Globalization: Noam Chomsky and Ha-Joon Chang in Conversation

C.J. Polychroniou Truthout
What exactly is driving globalization? And who really benefits from globalization? Are globalization and capitalism interwoven? How do we deal with the growing levels of inequality and massive economic insecurity? Should progressives and radicals rally behind the call for the introduction of a universal basic income?

Remembering Peekskill

Jeff Feingold Jacobin
The Peekskill Riots tell the story of postwar reaction. They document the conservative impulse and structural readjustment programs that blocked the American left’s ability to establish a social-democratic United States following World War II, but they also tell the story of resistance to homegrown fascism: a resistance the reemerged in the 1960s and is rising again today.

The Militarization of U.S. Policy on Latin America Is Deepening Under Trump

Jake Johnston Foreign Policy in Focus
Central America policy-making, hardly an open book to begin with, is set to become more secretive. What we do know is U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be there, as will Vice President Mike Pence — and of course, General John F. Kelly, the director of Homeland Security and the previous head of SOUTHCOM.