The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism

James Robertson Jacobin
Yugoslavia’s “self-managed” socialism appeared to be a real alternative to the Soviet model. Why did it collapse so suddenly?

Life Jacket

Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad Heart Journal Online
The New York poet Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad offers a soulful Life Jacket to those displaced and forlorn by international tragedies: "remember," she writes, "you were born first/into a province of hope."