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Braj Bhasha controversy teaches us that languages are not just means of communication—they are repositories of memory, ...
Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a poet shaped by early heartbreak and political disillusionment, blended romance and revolution in his work.
Every summer, we at Jacobin sit down to ask ourselves, what would you like to read on a warm sandy beach? Our answers to this ...
Some of Hawa Hassan’s earliest sense memories are the smell of burning tires and the sound of crackling gunfire.
At age 4, she and her family are living in Mogadishu, Somalia, “and the city of my childhood is no longer a bustling and burgeoning metropolis but a vacant and violent war zone,” she writes in ...
How Trump and the age of “crass, brutal politics” make extremist violence more likely The targeting of Democratic lawmakers is a reminder that inflammatory rhetoric can inspire violent extremism ...
North Carolina politics podcast Under the Dome: Host Dawn Vaughan and WUNC’s Colin Campbell on the 2025 legislative session, Speaker Hall.
06.17.25 - 10:00am Guest: Stephen Zunes is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of ...
America seems headed to an angry and ugly place. Inflammatory incidents, rhetoric and dissent unleashed by President Donald Trump’s tough immigration crackdown are inexorably building political ...
Trump brings red-carpet vibe, and boos, to Kennedy Center’s ‘Les Mis’ The president’s attendance was meant as a fundraiser for the cash-strapped arts center, which has seen a decline in ...
The 12-member board said the State Department’s actions against the congressionally authorized program constitute political interference and are against the law.
In the early 1980s, the UK government, led by newly elected Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, adopted a financial policy known as monetarism – the idea that, by controlling the supply of ...