Mississippi Racists Fight Back (in 1959), Bessie Smith, Fortune-Teller (1929), Fortress Germany Unveiled (1939), “The Germans Are Coming!” Or Not. (1919), ¡Karen Silkwood, Presente! (1979), Big Brother’s Listening (1919), Rock Around the Clock (1954)
The war on Gaza, with all the killing and destruction it has caused, must provide a historic opportunity to start a new path towards a landmark settlement that ends the century-old conflict and achieves stability and peace in the Middle East
I have never understood the trope that Israel made generous offers to the Palestinians (it never did) but that the Palestinians rejected them, and therefore the Palestinians should be deprived of all their basic rights forever.
First, what makes an individual more or less likely to identify as an atheist? Second, what makes someone more or less likely to adopt an atheistic worldview over time?
So on this Mother’s Day, consider raising a glass to also celebrate these amazing – and tired – chimpanzee moms.
By a 6-3 vote, the conservative justices decided that there is no need for the state to provide a preliminary hearing in civil forfeiture cases.
Rachel Swarns’s recent book about a mass sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is simultaneously the legacy of resistance
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It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.
Ariel Dorfman Has Some Recommendations for Culturally Illiterate Presidents and Autocrats
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