The Kurdish and Palestinian movements were forged in a common anti-colonial tradition. Their different political trajectories now reveal two competing models of liberation in the 21st century.
His take on history arms youth with the courage to “transform the world.” It’s no wonder the right aims to erase it.
Poet Sean Mclain Brown offers us a disturbing scene from the Iraq War, what happens to the animals in the combat zone.
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A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.
Poet Sally Mansfield Abbott finds that "doomscrolling" offers exactly what its name implies.
Poet Leslie Simon gathers a cacophony of voices, some warlike, some not, surveying the present devastation.
The Trump administration’s miscalculation of Iran is not an anomaly. One of the oldest and most lethal traditions in international politics is the catastrophic gap between what leaders believe going in and what war actually delivers.
Iranian-American poet Esther Kamkar has lived in Iran, Israel, & the US. Rather than sink into despair, she finds consolation in nature's tenacious resilience.
Why has the Middle East been so consistently wracked by war? Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern.
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