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For generations of American radicals, the path to liberation required a new constitution, not forced removal.
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.
The movement has made important progress, but focusing on rights and representation leaves too many behind.
House Republicans accuse student protesters of vicious anti-Semitism, but it is administrators who are courting violence.
How should LGBT activism think about state power?
The solidarity movement doesn’t have a single leader—and it doesn’t need one.
You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.
It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end.
For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?
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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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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Our new issue asks what a just state would look like and how to get there.
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