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Week in Video Giants
Stuck in the Tape Deck If the mediocre 2013 Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick The Last Stand had been released in 2004, …
Towards a New Collective Memory
On October 31 of last year, the campus of South Asia University (SAU) in New Delhi, India, glowed pink and blue. …
Keep Your Tongue in its Cage
Protest art and revolution in Kuwait, Sudan, and Egypt
On February 25th, the Kuwaiti government abruptly announced that it would be cancelling a performance by Mashrou’ Leila, a five-member Lebanese …
Week in the Sky
WOW! AIRLINE FAIL! For months, the fiscal winds had been changing for WOW Air’s fleet of pink aircraft: fourth quarter reports …
Against Forgetting
Enforced Disappearances, Visual Archives of Loss, and Collective Mourning in Kashmir
Mughal Mase sits at an APDP demonstration, holding a photo of her son. Photo taken as part of a series by …
"Have You Eaten?"
Rice, Agriculture, and Military Occupation in Kashmir
KASHMIR: LIFE UNDER SIEGE: PART 1 This week, the Indy News section begins a two-part series on the occupation of Kashmir, …
Week in Dismemberment
A DICHOTOMY OF BAGELS A firestorm erupted on Twitter last Monday when Alek Krautmann, a DC-based Missouri native, posted a photo …
Week in Archaic Institutions
Awake, Arise, Or Be Forever Fall’n Wednesday’s vernal equinox heralded the arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, but most of …
Crisis of Care
Politicians and think-tanks have bold new plans to make raising kids cheaper, easier… and fun?
Ten years ago, the Wall Street Journal interviewed daycare operators around the country to compile a list of tips and tricks …
From Railroad: Vote Yes on Divest
Railroad is a collective of prison abolitionists, criminal justice reformers, and others working in solidarity with communities and organizations in Providence …
Week in $$$
One-Student Schoolhouse Facing overcrowding last school-year in Cheyenne, Wyoming school administrators resorted to shuffling students around the district in an effort …
Everything But the Kitchen Sink
How Modern Monetary Theory reimagines government spending
A few weeks ago, a group of children confronted Senator Dianne Feinstein to plead for her to make a commitment to …
Week in Upgrades
Robots Hit the Rhodes Years from now, in the throes of the Artificial Intelligence Takeover we all know is coming, when …
Captioning Fascism
Memes, misinformation, and political fatigue in Bolsonaro's Brazil
“Don’t worry, everybody, everything will get better after the 2014 World Cup.” This tweet has been immortalized in reaction GIFs, YouTube …
Week in Jam
LOST IN TRANSLATION, ONCE AGAIN Ariana Grande, America’s sweetheart as of late, continued our country’s long-standing tradition of getting a tattoo …
Overdue Justice
Establishing adequate reparations for the victims from the U.S. Public Health Service S.T.D. inoculation experiments in Guatemala
content warning: torture, gore, sexual abuse The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments were an infamous and unethical series of clinical studies conducted on …
Week in (Mis)communication
LMS for Salvation Pope Francis wants you to know he’s not a regular pope, he’s a cool pope. With the recent …
Striking a Deal
LA teachers push for a more equitable public school system
Standing on the front steps of LA City Hall, Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), shouted into …
Week in Closing Time
Going O’Naturel Imagine this: a spacious, vibrant dining hall fills with an ensemble of chattering individuals in minimal dress. The guests, …
Misreadings and Misgivings
Understanding the Venezuelan presidential crisis
It was a sight to behold. On January 23, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets to denounce the …
State of Affairs
Protests build momentum in Sudan and France
Media outlets largely focus on specific moments in time, framing events as singular instances while often ignoring their historical and political …
Week in Digital Drama
"Facebook gains nothing from this meme" If you haven’t deactivated your social media accounts out of fear of breaches in privacy, …
Week in Compassionate Capitalism
STEM or: HOW GIRL SCOUTS LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB content warning: military violence At last month’s Macy’s …
Chinga las Armas
SOA, Plan Merida, and how the US funds gun violence in Mexico
December 10 marks the 12th year anniversary of the War on Drugs in Mexico. As of November 2018, 250,000 people are …
Week in Double Deals
Flushing the Swamp Never in the history of electoral politics has the accusation “My opponent is full of shit” been used …
Tough Love
I came around to Angela Merkel. Now she´s on her way out.
Germany’s historically early exit from the World Cup this year wasn’t the summer’s only national tragedy. Almost immediately following the Nationalelf’s …
The Children Who Leave and the Burden They Carry
Professor, activist, and journalist Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj on her commitment to justice and fighting for Indigenous communities in Guatemala
content warning: state violence, racism “They leave because they want to break the curse that steals their dreams the moment they …
Week in Puppets
DANCE LIKE NOBODY'S WATCHING “This is interpretive dance—also known as Mooch Moves—for my time in the White House.” Last Monday, the …
Beyond the Candidates
An independent midterms rundown
Here we thread together national stories, revealed not through House or Senate races, but through ballot measures and referendums, speaking to …
Week in Subcultures
POW! WHAM! CHOMP? Let this serve as a lesson to all New England exotic pet owners and comic book lovers: you …
Impossible Justice
Interview with Liz Sly, Washington Post ... reporter on the Middle East
content warning: war, murder, sexual violence Liz Sly is the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Beirut, Lebanon, a position she has …
Week in Stunts
ACCIDENTAL ALTERCATIONS In a dramatic reveal last Wednesday, Rhode Island’s very own Joe Trillo acknowledged that yes, okay, he may have …
The Face of Fascism
Brazil’s presidential election heads for disaster
content warning: political violence, racism, classism, misogyny, sexual violence, homophobia, transphobia, death, torture Public statements made by Jair Messias Bolsonaro, the …
Yankees Go Home
US approaches to the Venezuelan crisis
“America stands with every person living under a brutal regime,” claimed President Trump in his proclamation declaring National Hispanic Heritage Month …
Week In Denmark
BRICK BY BRICK Conservationists keen on toy block reconstructions of Death Stars and Taj Mahals can finally rejoice: Lego is ditching …
Week In Running
Uptown Rats, Not So Whitebread World Billy Joel pointed out that the differences between the girls of the Upper East Side …
Judge, Jury, and Executioner
Life and Death in Nebraska
cw: graphic depictions of death, racial violence On the night of September 1, 1994, local news anchors Loretta Caroll and John …
Keeping Families Together (In Detention)
A "new" Flores Settlement and the move from family separation to family imprisonment
The names and biographical information stated below have been altered to protect the identities of the children and their mothers who …
Week in Shiny Objects
Somewhere Under the Rainbow Just over 13 years ago, a pair of iconic ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz was …
Week in Failed Businesses
BLUE AT ONE TIME, GREEN AT ANOTHER This past week, more than 11,000 tourists visited Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, home …