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Two health and gender rights leaders delivered a stark assessment of what happens when major external funding disappears overnight and organised opposition…
It wasnāt so very long ago that there were three great powers reasonably ascendant on planet Earth. Iām thinking, of course, about…
I initially wrote this piece in 2024 during the student uprisings that took place around the United States. The content was focused…
The Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) is an organization of workers in the low-wage, high-turnover service industry of the U.S. South,…
The most salient quality of the future is that it hasnāt happened yet. It is a book whose pages are unwritten. Its…
Robert Kagan, veteran warmonger extraordinaire, wants to know what the “utility” would be of admitting that the war on Iraq was “a…
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