• Nuclear Weapons Are Like Aging Baby Boomers
    July 20, 2014
    Baby Boomers: as numerous as they are narcissistic (their rep, anyway). They were once synonymous with the emergence of the phenomenon of...
  • Poems for Gaza
    July 10, 2014
    Slit Lips by Samih al-Qasim I would have liked to tell you The story of a nightingale that died. I would have liked to tell you The story...
  • The Arms Trade Treaty and South Sudan
    July 9, 2014
    As the Republic of South Sudan approaches the third anniversary of its independence, the young nation has been making headlines again. This...
  • Confessions of a Lefty English Tutor
    June 30, 2014
    I’m an English teacher. Not the kind that orchestrates discussions about literature in a classroom. I teach English as a second language...
  • Why I Yelled at the Kara Walker Exhibit
    June 30, 2014
    Originally published in The Indypendent Blog . “You are recreating the very racism this art is supposed to critique,” I yelled. The...
  • The Fault with Football
    June 26, 2014
    As the World Cup presses on, the Verso Books blog features a critique of the games , recognizing the wave of demonstrations and labor...
  • On ISIS
    June 20, 2014
    Media coverage of recent military advances by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is misguided. Many analysts and pundits have focused...
  • Ending the Worst of Workfare
    June 19, 2014
    For nearly the past twenty years, poor New Yorkers who have turned to welfare have been required to work in the Work Experience Program as...
  • Census Fever in Angola
    June 19, 2014
    Angola is not less ethnically, culturally and socially diverse than any other African state. Yet there has been little information about...
  • What's Next for A DREAMer?
    June 18, 2014
    Caritas Doha, a staff member at Sakhi for South Asian Women —a non-profit organization committed to eliminating violence against women—...