Once upon a time, in the early 1970s, an ethnic Mexican adolescent observed Chicanos at a family gathering sporting brown berets, black Ray-Ban sunglasses, and beatnik-styled goatees.
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We need ways to reach a better understanding of what’s happened, what is now, and what could be.
Emily Dufton’s Addiction, Inc: Medication-Assisted Treatment and America’s Forgotten War on Drugs, explores the arc of treatment for opioid addiction from the late 1960s to the present, arguing that, briefly during the early 1970s, the federal government provided real treatment for addicts.
Hello, folks — Festivus greetings to all our sweeties and babies who have followed this blog and our work for the last 16 years.
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.