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Escalation in West Papua

Douglas Gerrard London Review of Books
The conflict in West Papua may be the world’s most unequal war: raids on military bases have improved the TPNPB’s fighting capacity, but they still often face Indonesian jets and missiles armed only with bows and arrows.

Too Big To Heal

Helen Santoro, Joel Warner The Lever
The U.S. economy is growing ever more reliant on the health care crisis.

Tango Lessons

Cesar Chelala CounterPunch
Tango has long chronicled those times. In doing so, it continues to offer a vocabulary for confronting a world where decency is in short supply and moral responsibility and kindness even more so.

The Equity Docket: The Architecture of Exclusion

Terrance Sullivan The Progressive
The Education Department’s reclassification of ‘professional degrees’ is the latest installment in a long history of excluding Black people, women, and working-class people.

Friday Nite Videos | December 26, 2025

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Supreme Court Deals Trump Huge Christmas Loss. The Criminals Who Bought Trump. Desi 2025: Trump's Ass-Kissing Cabinet, MAGA's Pope Tantrum. Across the Borderline. I Taught an Octopus To Play Piano.
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