Looking for Nat Turner

Alberto Toscano Boston Review
Frightened slaveowners cast the rebel leader as a monster. Scholars have misunderstood his religiosity. A new creative history comes closer than ever to giving us access to Turner’s visionary life.

Class Blind in Afghanistan

Jack Metzgar Portside
Our leaders’ tendency toward imperial arrogance is often recognized, especially when we lose a war. But it is not often suspected that our leaders reflect a broader professional class insularity and blindness that is toxic abroad as well as at home.

Kremlin in Decline?

Ilya Matveev and Ilya Budraitskis New Left Review
Putin's United Russia sought to maintain its authority in recent election. It remained in power, but weakened. The biggest winner: Russia's Communist Party which showed some signs of possible renewal.

Blue Bayou | Movie

The timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. A Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, struggling to make a better life for his family, discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.

There’s Hope in the Latest Climate Report

An important update from the IPCC, the definitive source on the climate crisis, doesn't have a ton of good news, but there are some bits of hope if we can ramp up our actions now.