What do you stand for?
Leaning into the mic, face flushed, speaking with unhurried and angry deliberation, Donald Trump told a cheering New Hampshire audience: “We’re gonna…
Christian Parenti
| Christian Parenti is a correspondent for the Nation and is author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (the New Press 2004). He received a PhD in sociology from the London Schoolof Economics in 2000. His two previous books are The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror, (Basic Books, 2003) and Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, (Verso, 2000). He has been a Soros Senior Justice fellow and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the CUNY Graduate School\'s Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. |
Climate change will displace millions within decades. But where will they go and how will governments receive them?
How did we end up with millions behind bars and police armed like soldiers?
Interview on the state, nature, climate change, Marxism, capitalism, regulation, activism and the future
Interview on ideology, climate change, Marxism, activism, the state, militarism, violence and the future
Climate change means that the state is coming back. The choice is whether the state’s return will be violent and repressive or whether its return can involve a renovation and transformation
It’s best not to dwell too much on Pakistan, or at least Ahmed Rashid’s description of it in Pakistan on the Brink,…
A portrait of a stern, round-faced man with dark hair and a moustache is sometimes seen in the teahouses and street stalls…
In the teahouses and street stalls of Kabul, one sometimes sees the portrait of a stern, round-faced man with dark hair and…
Look back on 2011 and you’ll notice a destructive trail of extreme weather slashing through the year. In Texas, it was the driest…