March 16, 2025 Wartime Destruction of Ukraine Dam Has Set Off a ‘Time Bomb’ Richard Stone Science Breach of Kakhovka Dam now threatens seasonal floods thick with toxic heavy metals, other pollutants
February 16, 2025 How the West Destroyed Congo’s Hopes for Independence Andrée Blouin Jacobin In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s kleptocratic dictatorship on the Congolese people.
February 2, 2025 In Sudan, Doctors Forced To Operate in Shipping Containers Buried Underground Eisa Dafalla Drop Site News Healthcare facilities have come under heavy attack in the conflict between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese National Army
poetry February 14, 2025 Waiting Geneffa Jahan Porter Gulch Review 2024 In Geneffa Jahan's poem "Waiting" the speaker awaits her death as if it were an abusive lover.
December 29, 2024 The Drama and Suffering of the World Chess Championship J.C. Hallman The Nation A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old chess champion.
poetry November 8, 2024 A Moment in Gaza Lola Haskins Porter Gulch Review Precise as a haiku, with the force of a hand grenade, poet Lola Haskins offers a terrifying glimpse of the war in Gaza.
poetry October 25, 2024 Bullets Terry Adams Portside Poet Terry Adams relates how a sensitive child might learn about the intricate relationship between bullets and death.
poetry August 16, 2024 Echoes From the Odyssey Oksana Maksymchuk Verse Daily “War is warm this year,” writes the poet Oksana Maksymchuk, violence spilling over international borders, stinging with no end in sight.
poetry May 24, 2024 Becoming Educated Joanne Durham Vox Populi The grief of today’s wars, North Carolina poet Joanne Durham reminds us, falls heaviest on the children of the victims.
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