While Trump’s violence has never been purely rhetorical, few anticipated his appetite for the use of military force since returning to power. Do Americans share their president’s growing bellicosity? And what if they decide they don’t? Street tulips The U... See more
On political speech and the paradoxes of critique after Trump and Gaza; why the far right fills the gap left by restorationist liberalism; and how fascization depends on white middle-class solidarity. Which Iranian artist in exile isn’t asked how their wo... See more
Trump’s imperial ambitions are forcing the EU to rethink its global position. And European far-right parties, swollen on fears of diminishing world power, are paradoxically flogging the ethnic nation as a place of shelter. But finding unity in scapegoatin... See more
DOGE’s deletion strategy Giving a big tech boss the job of cutting US government spending unleashed an onslaught of hacking and dehumanizing tactics. Now that the obliteration of institutional data – linked to losses of jobs, USAID projects and lives – ha... See more
Despite the uncertainty of recovery from ongoing war, Ukrainians are confronting Russian destruction and de-construction with daily acts of reconstruction. Marginalized landscapes, histories and stories are being rediscovered through a grassroots resistan... See more
