Dos Passos’s epic trilogy still indelibly captures the United States in a moment of centrifugal chaos
The piece opens with voice notes exchanged with my cousin in Tehran, my childhood best friend unseen for 27 years, as internet servers fall under shutdown and cyberattack, and moves outward: into the Persian concept of ghorbat, the open-ended strangeness of exile; into the false binary Western media has imposed between supporting foreign intervention and tolerating the Islamic Republic’s repression; and into a genealogy of American and Israeli interference that has historically destroyed the very conditions for democratic flourishing.
Donald Trump is a failure. Donald Trump fails at almost everything. He fails at everything. But this failure is powerful. This failure is successful.
We live in a time of hopes and horrors and mirrors. Just enough funhouse distortion to make everything un-understandable.
In their haste to embrace the new Syrian regime, the international community has yet again shunted the Kurdish people aside. It must stop.
Historians Lily Pearl Balloffet and Cinthya Martinez look at the way actual terrorists like Trump and ICE have expanded the definition of terrorism to include everyone they don’t like.
It has been quite a while now, but a jaded critic once referred to our site as The Bleep Bloop Review. We credit you!
There are many different types of guides at historical sites, and I wanted to be at least one of them.
Mexico, our monumental neighbor to the south, blessed with a rich indigenous culture and a deep relationship with the arts, is also, somewhat paradoxically, a perfect locale to capture, reproduce, and share via postcard ephemera.