Category: Politics

The New World (Dis)order

Irshad Salim, Karachi: Back in the summer of 2020, I drew an illustration on a…

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nukes?

by Ashutosh Jogalekar: As the saying goes, if you believe only fascists guard borders, then…

The Enduring Pain of Postcolonial Trauma

Farah Abdessamad at Aeon: In 1952, the 27-year-old Frantz Fanon had just published his first…

The Case For Multiparty Democracy

by Jerry Cayford: It’s a book about how our political system fell into this downward…

Sea and Earth

‘Swaying between atomic and spiritual disintegration.’ Miri Davidson in Sidecar: The far right wants to…

Gaza and the Hundred Years’ War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi in The Guardian: For people everywhere, myself included, the awful images that have…

The Fire-Breather Tucker Carlson and His Alma Mater St. George’s

By Jack Sullivan at Air Mail: Like all speakers of truth, Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson…

Governing the Ungovernable

Jess Bidgood at The New York Times: When members of Congress return to Washington from…

What’s Inside the President’s Nuclear Football

Annie Jacobsen at Time: Nuclear threats have reemerged on the world stage. Frequently, Vladimir Putin…

‘Our Rule of Law is Under Attack From Our Own Government, But the World Does Not See This’

Mike Herd, Investigations Editor, The Conversation: Here’s a story about an authoritarian leader of a…

Meeting The QAnon Shaman

Frederick Kaufman at Harper’s Magazine: Jacob Angeli-Chansley, the man the media has dubbed the QAnon…

Is it Time to End Arms Sales to Israel?

Today’s Big Question from The Week: America’s longtime military support for Israel is suddenly in…