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  • Brazil’s Left After Lula

    “Here in South America, we present ourselves as a region of peace,” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared last week as he hosted South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa, adding that “nobody here has an atomic bomb.” Normally the genial Lula might have left it at that, celebrating his country’s peaceful, collaborative foreign policy

  • Politics After Literacy

    In 1931, the Soviet neuropsychologist Alexander Luria traveled to the foothills of the Alay Mountains, in the barren borderlands between Uzbekistan and Kirghizia, to find out how the locals thought. He was trying to prove the theory that “mental processes are social and historical in origin” — that the way we think, not just the content of

  • Julie Menin Is Protecting New York’s Ultrawealthy

    In the battle between democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and centrist New York Governor Kathy Hochul over whether to increase taxes on the state’s superrich, New Yorkers are firmly on the mayor’s side, with 62 percent approving of his plan. So are both houses of the state legislature. Much of the city

  • The Many Invasions Survived by Lebanon

    Although long used to all manner of wars, Lebanon is watching in stunned disbelief as catastrophe strikes with an unprecedented violence. Everyone here remembers that in 2000, under pressure from Hezbollah, Israel withdrew from the south of the country, which it had occupied for eighteen years. The Shiite organization earned its nickname “Resistance” there, becoming

  • Jürgen Habermas’s European Illusion

    By the time he died this past Saturday at age ninety-six, Jürgen Habermas had become something of a reviled figure for much of the Left. His liberalism, centered on a belief in communicative rationality, was perceived as an abandonment of the more radical impulses of the Frankfurt School — Sam Moyn, for example, wrote that

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  • When Opposition Calls for “Free” and “Fair” Elections to Guarantee “Democracy” in Venezuela, What Do They Mean?

    Since Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999, the US has attacked the Bolivarian Revolution in multiple ways, including through propaganda that categorize it as “authoritarian,” “unfree,” and “undemocratic.” This US propaganda assault is intended to dictate what should be done in Venezuela, including a return to “democracy,” with “free” and “fair” elections. Emboldened by The post When Opposition Calls for “Free” and “Fair” Elections to Guarantee “Democracy” in Venezuela, What Do They Mean? appeared first on Dissident Voice.

  • Why the 2026 Middle East Crisis Demands Critical AI Literacy

    “Tel Aviv, stripped of illusion, as you have never witnessed it,” read the caption above a viral March 2026 video showing missiles hammering the Israeli city as explosions burst across the night sky. To the casual scroller, it appeared to be a harrowing document of modern conflict. The problem, however, was that the video was The post Why the 2026 Middle East Crisis Demands Critical AI Literacy appeared first on Dissident Voice.

  • Dilemma

    Every answer carries the next problem inside it, the way a season carries the one that will replace it. We have learned not to be surprised by this. We were born here, and so we stay. What else is there? The world ends at the television frame, where the evening news flickers and dies each The post Dilemma appeared first on Dissident Voice.

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  • Military Families Brace for What Comes Next

    This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. Caryl Banks dragged a kitchen chair beneath the overhead light and climbed onto it with a bucket of warm, soapy water balanced on the countertop. She wrung out a sponge, lifted it

  • ICE Is Ignoring Rules Put in Place to Avoid Family Separations, Researchers Say

    In November, a 22-year-old woman disembarked from her deportation flight in Honduras, five months pregnant and distraught. Immigration officers in the United States had flown her out of the country without asking her an important question: Did she have any kids? Her 2-year-old daughter was left behind. “They didn’t ask me anything,” she said in

  • Democrats Urge Windfall Tax as Oil Firms Prepare to Cash in on the Iran War

    This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With big oil companies poised to reap billions of dollars in profits from the war in Iran, Democratic lawmakers and progressive groups are calling for a windfall tax on major fossil fuel companies. The US-Israeli strikes on Iran have triggered

  • Dolores Huerta Worried Her Abuse by Cesar Chavez Would Hurt Farmworker Movement

    United Farm Workers co-founder and labor activist Dolores Huerta went public Wednesday with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a stunning New York Times investigation that uncovered decades of sexual abuse, including of young girls, by the civil rights icon. Prior to speaking with the Times, Huerta had never publicly disclosed

  • DHS Waited Until It Was Sued to Remind ICE Agents About the First Amendment

    The Trump administration is scrambling to cover its tracks amid legislative pressure and a First Amendment lawsuit over its alleged “domestic terrorist” database, new legal filings and emails reviewed by Mother Jones reveal. A federal class action lawsuit filed last month against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleges that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

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  • The Tolstoy Guide to History That Trump and Netanyahu Didn’t Read

    How do you bomb a country “without mercy”—and end up strengthening it? When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that Washington would show “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies,” the message was unmistakable: this was not a limited war, but an overwhelming campaign meant to break Iran—militarily, politically, and socially.  The logic behind such

  • The Last Embrace

    There are two scenes I cannot shake, and I need to be honest about why. The first unfolds in the Oval Office, that carefully staged room where power is both exercised and performed. Donald Trump asks an aide to hand him a model bomber. He turns it over in his hands, smiling, admiring it, and

  • Some Economic Consequences of the Iran War

    As the US-Israel war on Iran enters its third week, the outlines of the economic consequences and fallout of the war have begun to emerge. As the war continues—and by most indicators it appears it will for months longer—the War’s negative impact on the US and world economies will deepen further. What are some of

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