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Is partition the only path to self-determination?

Leila Farsakh
Poetry

Don’t stuff your fingers
in your ears or count the Pentecost.
Don’t ask if that grammar has a rosary
or recipe written in cornrows on her head.

Joel Dias-Porter

For generations of American radicals, the path to liberation required a new constitution, not forced removal.

Aziz Rana

The movement has made important progress, but focusing on rights and representation leaves too many behind.

Robert Chapman

House Republicans accuse student protesters of vicious anti-Semitism, but it is administrators who are courting violence. 

Robin D. G. Kelley

How should LGBT activism think about state power?

Samual Clowes Huneke, Hugh Ryan

The solidarity movement doesn’t have a single leader—and it doesn’t need one.

Ayça Çubukçu

You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.

Robin D. G. Kelley

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

Erik Baker

An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end.

S'bu Zikode, Richard Pithouse

What would a just state look like, and how can we get there?

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò leads a forum with responses from Thea Riofrancos, Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie, Ishac Diwan & Bright Simons, and others. Plus Leila Farsakh on Palestinian statehood, Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on a “solidarity state,” Joshua Craze on rule by militia, and much more.

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Israel & Palestine

The solidarity movement doesn’t have a single leader—and it doesn’t need one.

Ayça Çubukçu

A Palestinian catalog of ruin and resilience.

Ahmed Moor

How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.

Barnett R. Rubin

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Alberto Toscano, Robin D. G. Kelley, Prabhat Patnaik, and more.

Democrats increasingly rely on affluent suburbanites. Does that spell the end of a bold economic agenda?

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson with Larry Bartels, Bryce Covert, Lily Geismer, Heather Gautney, and others
From the Archive

On the world gay liberationists hoped to create.

Micki McElya

An interview with the Colombian novelist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Gene Bell-Villada, Gabriel García Márquez
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Can the nation-state serve social justice?

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò leads a forum with Thea Riofrancos, Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie, Ishac Diwan & Bright Simons, and others. Plus Leila Farsakh on Palestinian statehood, Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on a “solidarity state,” Joshua Craze on rule by militia, and much more. 

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