War Has Forced Gaza’s Children to Grow Up Far Too Soon War Has Forced Gaza’s Children to Grow Up Far Too Soon
“Instead of playing and jumping, he is thinking of how to help us survive,” one father says.
US Mayors for Peace Call for Dialogue in a Time of Nuclear Danger US Mayors for Peace Call for Dialogue in a Time of Nuclear Danger
“If you don’t think nuclear weapons are a local issue, just ask the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
There Is No Universal Free Speech There Is No Universal Free Speech
PEN America hides behind the false universalism of free speech, but institutions always choose whom to protect.
Labour’s Historic Victory Belies Deep Fault Lines in British Politics Labour’s Historic Victory Belies Deep Fault Lines in British Politics
Keir Starmer has won a huge parliamentary majority—despite a fall in the Labour vote.
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What Should the Democrats Do Now? What Should the Democrats Do Now?
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Freeing Assange
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While dictators kill troublesome journalists with guns and missiles, democracies can afford to be more patient. But the end result is the same.
What Would I.F. Stone Think of WikiLeaks? What Would I.F. Stone Think of WikiLeaks?
America’s greatest investigative journalist believed in letting the truth be told, even over the protest of state officials. But what would he make of WikiLeaks’s secret-telling?
If Assange’s Fate Were Up To a Jury, He, Too, Might Have Walked Free If Assange’s Fate Were Up To a Jury, He, Too, Might Have Walked Free
Like William Penn and John Peter Zenger, the Wikileaks founder is fighting for our freedom.
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From the Archive
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Sometimes, our best efforts at peace are betrayed.
Politics
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If American democracy is on the line, as Democrats have rightly insisted, why nominate someone who has trouble keeping up with his opponent?
Democrats Are Running Interference for Biden. Voters Aren’t Convinced. Democrats Are Running Interference for Biden. Voters Aren’t Convinced.
Party messaging since last week’s debate has set out to convince the public that what they saw on television didn’t really happen.
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Books & the Arts
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Can the Constitution Save Us? Can the Constitution Save Us?
The Constitution is often invoked as a safeguard for American democracy, but does it more often get in democracy’s way?
The Man Hồ Chí Minh Once Was The Man Hồ Chí Minh Once Was
Joseph Andras’s novel on the Vietnamese revolutionary’s salad days in Paris imagines how a young radical became an icon.
World
Le Pen and Her Allies May Be on the Verge of Forming the First Far-Right Government in France Since World War II Le Pen and Her Allies May Be on the Verge of Forming the First Far-Right Government in France Since World War II
Yet there is a resurgence of organizing by the left.
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Lessons from Mary Kay Henry, the first woman president of SEIU.
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At least they’re giving themselves a fighting chance.
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Will Arizona Be MAGA’s Last Stand? Will Arizona Be MAGA’s Last Stand?
Trump needs the state’s votes to win. But after its highest court revived an 1864 law that bans abortions, all bets are off.
The Political Divorce Rocking the Philippines The Political Divorce Rocking the Philippines
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