Debacle in Afghanistan

Tariq Ali New Left Review
The American security establishment knew that the invasion had failed: the Taliban could not be subdued no matter how long they stayed. The fact is that over twenty years, the US has failed to build anything that might redeem its mission.

Longing for the Garden

Esther Kamkar
The experience of migration—whether refugee or voluntary—leaves the scar of uprootedness, as the Persian/American poet Esther Kamkar explains.

Stanley Aronowitz Knew That Freedom Begins Where Work Ends

Jamie McCallum Jacobin
Head shot of Stanley Aronowitz
Stanley Aronowitz died this week at 88. He hated work, loved life, and brought his overflowing, exuberant approach to social problems to picket lines, classrooms, and vacation. A fighting left needs more people like him.

Baby Bats Babble, Much Like Human Infants

Ahana Fernandez trekked through the rainforests of Central America, ears tuned for high-pitched, repetitive chirping and squeaking from greater sac-winged bat pups. Their babbling may shed light on why human babies babble and the origins of speech.

Homeroom | Documentary

Do not discount the voices of young people. #HomeroomOnHulu (premieres Aug 12) follows Oakland High School’s class of 2020 through a year of pandemic and growing demands for systemic change. 

How the Immune System Actually Works

The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain. What happens when your body is invaded and your first lines of defenses are engaged in a fight for life and death?

Bob Dylan | With God on Our Side

Before the Gulf of Tonkin, before Iraq, before Afghanistan, Dylan surveyed the wars our country has fought with God on our side. And he makes a request of God about the next one.