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.
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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.
Nixon long portrayed himself as a victim of the press. However, from the 1952 Checkers speech to his post-presidency PR offensives, Nixon proved himself an able manipulator of the media.
Any film that so handedly breaks from the mainstream script about Cuba deserves our praise—and our scrutiny.
Fahrenthold’s new book reveals a complex story of global migration and shifting identities and allegiances, as both the Middle East and Latin America were transformed.
White men — what are they thinking? What do they think about what they think? Is it good to write thinkpieces on thinking about how white men think?
Paul Simon was asked to say a few words during a concert back in 1973. His response? “Let’s […]