Winnie Hong sorting packages before Christmas last year in San Francisco. (photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) By John Kiriakou The U.S. Postal Service is spying on us. And they’re not doing…
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By Jason Hickel If you follow international news you will be accustomed to headlines announcing that world leaders have succeeded in cutting global poverty in half over the past couple…
By Jason Hickel Colonialism is one of those things you’re not supposed to discuss in polite company – at least not north of the Mediterranean. Most people feel uncomfortable about…
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The histories and holidays of the oppressed, colonized and enslaved are, of necessity, different from the history and holidays of the oppressor, the colonizer and the enslaver. Likewise, their…

By: Michael Harriot A migrant from Syria holds one of his children in a holding area after arriving at a rail station in Munich, Germany, and being detained by police Aug….
By Jason Hickel If you follow international news you will be accustomed to headlines announcing that world leaders have succeeded in cutting global poverty in half over the past couple of decades….
By Mama Marimba Ani A group of European scavengers, many of whom had been imprisoned or homeless in England, arrived in New England in 1620. They first lived on Turtle…
By Drew Gilpin Faust faust_1-121715.jpg Peter Foley/epa/CorbisBill Clinton and John Hope Franklin discussing race relations in America at the New York Public Library, October 2005 The historian John Hope…
By John Nichols Muslim_American_Flag_rtr_img Samr Ebrahim with his granddaughter Zrahaa Mohammed at a park in Dearborn, Michigan, April 9, 2003. (Reuters / Rebecca Cook) Followers of Islam have lived…
By Jeet Heer Just a year a so ago, the phrase “identity politics” had a musty and arcane air to it, redolent as it was of early 1990s campus battles…