‘I am not American’

Insufficient attention is paid to the different contexts of the black people who do not live in America; we are simply put in the mould of black Americans...
Read MoreLe Pen Fighter II

On the face of it, the results of Sunday’s first-round French presidential election look like a carbon copy of those in 2017...
Read MoreRadical Elites

One study found that 78% of June Black Lives Matter protesters in New York City were white...
Read MoreJunior ranks are condemned to a chain of perpetual fear…

Putin manages the military in much the same way as he does the wider Russian state, choosing loyalty to him above professional competence...
Read MoreKyiv to Khmelnytskyi

Sofia, Dima, Vika, Andriy and Maryna left their hometown in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region after Russia took control of it in 2014...
Read MoreThere are two branches of activism…

The funding has a way of managing the direction and even the leadership of these movements, and Black Lives Matter is no different...
Read MoreJennifer Keohane on Gary Hart

Character assassination is the intentional destruction of a person’s reputation or credibility through strategic communication...
Read MoreCan the climate crisis overcome culture war logic?

Culture wars present us with an unflattering mirror: whether we take part in them or not, they can easily make us seem either pathetic or buck-passing...
Read MoreThird Wave Anti-Racism’s Ruthless Evangelism

Encouraging black people to see themselves as perpetual victims, while assigning to white people the task of becoming enlightened enough to recognize their own inherent and irredeemable racism creates a culture of soft-bigotry...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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