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Harry Breaks Free From the Racial Contract—and Pays the Price

The response to Harry’s abandoning that contract, both in the Buckingham Palace and British media, has been swift, overt and punitive.

Kali Holloway

Sports

So What the Hell Is Race Norming?

Former NFL players accuse the league of racial bias in how it doles out concussion settlement money. Their suit has exposed a practice that belongs in history’s trash can.

Dave Zirin
Racism and Discrimination

The Rise of the East Will Not End the Empire of the West

China has no interest in destroying the system on which its success was built.

Kehinde Andrews
Politics

Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Clinging to an Irrelevant Past

It’s past time to give the narratives of the 20th century a decent burial. Doing so may be a precondition for our very survival.

Andrew J. Bacevich
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Special Issue: Parenting as a radical act of love

Parenting in Exile From Egypt: The Choices I Made for My Daughters

Even though I know what the dictatorship would do to me if I returned to Egypt, I am consumed with guilt for abandoning my family.

Muhammad Kamal

My Son Is His Own Person, and I’m Glad to Know Him

Eventually, our kids realize they’re free to become who they are. Our job is to let them.

Carvell Wallace

Parenting Through Sickness, Health, and Covid-19

To avoid replicating this awful moment, our failures must become the source of our children’s political possibilities.

Imani Perry

Politics

We Need to Rethink Employment in the Biden Era

Joe Biden has campaigned on the promise of “good wages, benefits, and worker protections.” More than that, jobs should contribute to a better life for workers.

Rebecca Gordon

Stacey Plaskett’s ‘How Dare You?’ Indictment Demolished a Dog-Whistling Republican

After Glenn Grothman claimed advocates for Black lives don’t like “the old-fashioned family,” Plaskett gave him no quarter.

John Nichols

A Fraud, Not a Lincoln

Liberals need a reckoning with the fortune they wasted on Never Trump charlatans.

Jeet Heer

World

How Pelé Sold Out

A new Netflix documentary revisits the soccer star’s illustrious World Cup career during a pivotal period in Brazilian history.

Miguel Salazar

Mexico Could Soon Become the Largest Legal Marijuana Market in the World

But activists say the law fails to address the widespread pain that decades of militarized enforcement have caused.

Maya Averbuch

France’s New Culture Warriors

The notion that the French state would bolster academic freedom by enhancing oversight of what is considered appropriate research is ludicrous on its face. But there’s a deeper irony as well.

Cole Stangler

Culture

‘Minari’ Is a Landmark for Asian American Cinema

Lee Isaac Chung’s poignant immigrant drama is the kind of film that can be felt with all five senses. 

Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

The World Lawrence Ferlinghetti Built

As a poet, publisher, and bookstore owner, he helped foster a literary ecosystem where politics and culture for the better seemed possible.

Barry Schwabsky

The Future of Postcolonial Thought

A pair of books—one by Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh, another by Achille Mbembe—consider the unfulfilled promise of decolonization.

Arjun Appadurai

Watch and Listen

Listen: Leroy Moore, Krip Hop Nation, and the Politics of the Paralympics

The famed disability rights activist weighs in on the Paralympics.

March 9, 2021

View: Mexico Could Soon Become the Largest Legal Marijuana Market in the World

But activists say the law fails to address the widespread pain that decades of militarized enforcement have caused.

February 25, 2021

Watch: Was the Killing of Ahmad Erekat an Extrajudicial Execution?

Watch Forensic Architecture's detailed investigation of the circumstances of Ahmad Erekat’s killing.

February 26, 2021
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