Published on http://www.counterpunch.org War rages, horrid war Even in our bones; our double nature sounds With armèd discord. – Prudentius, Psychomachia “The cultural critic Raymond... Read more
The homeland security secretary has become the face of the intractable problem at the border, particularly for Republicans who see immigration attacks as a winning political strategy. [...]
In his first State of the Union address since the G.O.P. took the lower chamber, the president will call for higher taxes on the wealthy and more social aid to the needy. [...]
After indefinitely postponing a modest student exhibit about the Russian equivalent to the Bauhaus, the school received protests from 750 academics. On Monday, it reinstated the show. [...]
The Trump administration called detainee art U.S. government property and halted most releases. Lawyers never mounted an intellectual property case. [...]
This month, Nicole Hannah-Jones, with the help of Oprah, took the Right’s favorite target of historical censorship, the New York Times’ “1619 Project” to Hulu as a six-part mini-series. Phillip… [...]
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Republicans are resorting to their age-old tactic of manufactured moral outrage to distract from the fact that they have no economic agenda other than to enrich the already wealthy. It… [...]
In Arabic, the term sumud means roughly steadfastness or steadfast perseverance. It is a term that has become a cultural rallying point and a liberatory social practice for a people… [...]
An important sideline to the artist’s daily journey to what is presently a large black and pearlised soft pink and silver ink painting on the wall of her studio is… [...]