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Ariel Dorfman Has Some Recommendations for Culturally Illiterate Presidents and Autocrats

It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.

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

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.

So on this Mother’s Day, consider raising a glass to also celebrate these amazing – and tired – chimpanzee moms.

If we are to make meaning out of “Asian America” this AAPI Heritage Month, we must root ourselves in intersectional principles, draw threads across global and local struggles, and forge paths toward a world free from U.S. militarism and forever wars.

“We don’t look at the crime. We are looking at predetention when you have not been convicted of a crime. We didn’t make the system. The system says, ‘You are innocent until proven guilty.’”

The first task is to prevent the attack on Rafah and end the genocide. However, soon thereafter, the political malaise that has befallen the Palestinian people must be overcome.

Steward Health just filed for bankruptcy in Houston’s scandal-plagued, private equity-pilled bankruptcy court.

A former union leader wrestles with the challenge of making construction work the path to the middle class it once was