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Life and Death in Rio de Janeiro
With the Olympics just on the horizon, Jez Smadja reviews "Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City".
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
From Orlando to Brexit to Baghdad: 2016’s Summer of Violence Requires a Radical Rethinking of Queer Politics
What the Pulse shooting tells us about violent masculinity and queer politics in the Arab World.
The Humiliation Machine
“The Way to the Spring” makes us understand that the creation of this kind of Palestinian despair is what the Israeli humiliation machine hopes to produce.
Getting Away with War and Torture
Scholar-activist Rebecca Gordon has published a bold new book that takes on America’s current age of injustice.
Where I Used to Walk
A poem by Juan Felipe Herrera in memorium for the officers killed in Baton Rouge
Systemic Breakdown
Mervyn King’s "The End of Alchemy" is a book that demands close attention.
Connected Through Oppression: The Past, Present, and Future of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Insight on the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the ongoing struggle for justice and equality.
Is There Life After Capitalism?
Chris Nealon reviews Paul Mason’s “Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future.”
Black Lives Matter in Higher Learning
Why #blacklivesmatter still matters.
Democracy — Too Much of a Good Thing?
Roslyn Fuller and Andrew Sullivan discuss the United States’s current political system and debate whether more or less of it is beneficial.
Inheriting Injustice and Perpetuating Impunity: What You Didn’t Know About Guantánamo
What must count among Obama’s sharpest regrets is the way in which he mishandled Guantanamo.
The Hands of a Leader: Donald Trump and Niccolò Machiavelli
What Machiavelli can tell us about Trump.
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