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“Many who today hear me somewhere in person, or on television, or those who read something I’ve said, will think I went to school far beyond the eighth grade,” Malcolm X said in his landmark...

In December 2023, Ndileka Mandela, the granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, condemned the rich world for supporting a global system of “climate apartheid.” Speaking at the COP28 summit in the United Arab Emirates, Mandela stated that...

Review of Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991 by Radoslav Yordanov (Stanford University Press, 2024) From the earliest days of the Cuban Revolution, hardened Cuba-watchers have become wearily familiar...

In the aftermath of the pandemic, war, and the economic convulsions that attended them, many column inches have been devoted to talk about de-globalization and an associated increase in supply-chain resilience. In Western policy circles,...

Don’t put it past France’s Parti Socialiste (PS) to get aboard a sinking ship. Wednesday’s no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Michel Barnier over a social-security financing bill forced the collapse of a government that never...

Review of Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics by Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage (University of British Columbia Press, 2024) In the fall of 2023, something unusual happened in the world of...

Several years ago, my insurance plan would only cover Admelog insulin to treat my type 1 diabetes, which caused my blood sugar to hover high for months. In the long term, prolonged high blood sugars...

Review of Juice by Tim Winton (Hamish Hamilton, 2024) Since British colonization, extractive capitalism has made Western Australia’s (WA) mining bosses filthy rich. And today, WA remains a disproportionate contributor to the climate crisis, due...

The Order is a serious drama, and here we should pause to pay tribute to the fact that a serious drama is playing at the local multiplex where such films are rarely seen these days....

The twenty-first century’s worst humanitarian and military crisis has reached a historic turning point. This weekend, Syrians rejoiced after Bashar al-Assad was finally toppled in a shock reversal spearheaded by al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham...

For a lover of Soviet avant-garde art, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s is a tipping moment for a few realizations that started around the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. The exciting...

Review of Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life by Nathan Schneider (University of California Press, 2024) and The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms by Paul Gowder (Cambridge University Press, 2023) In the beginning, there...