• Brenda Fassie, Our Girl in the Mirror
    September 11, 2014
    Bongani Madondo is a South African writer who, for the better part of his life, has been tip-toeing around words in search of the perfect...
  • A Response to the "Predictable Tragedy"
    September 9, 2014
    On Tuesday, September 1, the rains came. By the next day, much of the city of Srinagar in the Indian-controlled region of Jammu and Kashmir...
  • False Pearls For Real Swine
    September 4, 2014
    Asim Rafiqui on art institutions and their collusion with the politics of imperialism. This below is the sort of cultural whitewash that...
  • After the Prayer
    August 30, 2014
    Editor's Preface Translated from the original Armenian, After the Prayer recounts the experience of an Armenian soldier fighting in the...
  • Syria's Non-chemical Weapons
    August 28, 2014
    Last week, the U.S. government announced that it had completed destruction of Syria’s declared chemical weapons stockpile. This complex...
  • The Absence of Zane
    August 26, 2014
    On May 21, 2012, Zane Plemmons Rosales, a Mexican American photojournalist, was at a hotel in Nuevo Laredo when a gunfight broke out ...
  • Ferguson Roundup
    August 24, 2014
    As tensions in Ferguson linger in the wake of Michael Brown's death, here is a roundup of relevant literature and coverage from the...
  • Disciplinary Power in Ferguson and Palestine
    August 22, 2014
    Recent days have seen an upsurge of signs of solidarity between African-American and Palestinian struggles. On August 17, an open letter...
  • Civilians, Combatants, and Histories of International Law
    August 14, 2014
    Originally published in Critical Legal Thinking . In Gaza and elsewhere, those who politically support anti-occupation politics are easily...
  • Fashion and Rape Culture
    August 13, 2014
    Fashion's penchant for glamorizing horrible things reached new lows this week. Mumbai fashion photographer Raj Shetye's latest series,...