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Paul Bowles in Tangier, Frederic Tuten, Paris Review, Nov 21, 2023

Borges on Buddhism: a lecture

On Philip Deloria, Harvard Magazine, 2019

Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82, New York Times, Jan 8, 2023 (more)

Pauli Murray Should Be a Household Name: A New Film Shows Why, Melena Ryzik, NYTimes, Sept 15, 2021

David Graeber's Possible Worlds, Molly Fischer, NY Magazine, Nov 9, 2021

"Conservationists should include Indigenous peoples as stakeholders," Jessica Hernandez on Fresh Banana Leaves, Science News, March 2022

Red Flag, Green Roots: The Life of Jim Connell, Ronan Burtenshaw, Tribune, March 17, 2022

What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe's Bar 80 years Ago, Robert Elder, New York Times, Sept 21, 2022

Bridget Riley in Chicago, Smithsonian Mag, Sept 2022

Fifty Years of Solitude, Paul Elie, Vanity Fair, Winer 2016

​Raging for the World That Is: Muriel Rukeyser's Poetry, Francesca Wade, The Baffler, July 27, 2022

Thich Nhat Hanh, Monk, Zen Master & Activist, Dies at 95, Seth Mydans, NYTimes, Jan 21, 2022

bell hooks, Pathbreaking Black Feminist, Dies at 69, Clay Risen, NYTimes, Dec 15, 2021

Jorge Luis Borges, A Thousand & One Nights

Poet David Wagoner, RIP

How Sept 11 Turned a Professor Into a Playwright, Mirta Ojito, New York Times, Dec 6, 2001

How to buy Indigenous products in the US

"The Great-Grandmother (Melita Norwood) Comes in from the Cold," Warren Hoge, The New York Times, Sept 13, 1999

"She changed Black literature forever. Then she disappeared," Imani Perry, New York Times Magazine, Sept 17, 2021

Andrei Tarkovsky, Director & Soviet Emigre, Dies at 54, New York Times,  Dec 30, 1986 (Retrospective)

Faith Ringgold Will Keep Fighting Back, Bob Morris, New York Times, June 11, 2020

James Ridgeway, Hard-Hitting Investigative Journalist, Dies at 84, Robert McFadden, New York Times, Feb 14, 2021

Organizing Culture: The Legacy of Lekra in Indonesia, Tricontinental, Dec 1, 2020

William Schaap, Radical Lawyer & CIA Critic, Dies at 75, Sam Roberts, NY Times, March 2, 2016 (Testimony about MLK)

Out of Bethlehem: The radicalization of Joan Didion, Louis Menand, New Yorker, Aug 15, 2015

Neil Sheehan, Who Obtained the Pentagon Papers for The Times, Dead at 84, New York Times, Jan 7, 2021 (more)(more)

The Feuds of Diana Trilling, Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, May 22, 2017

A Debut Novel Reimagines the CIA's Efforts to Promote Doctor Zhivago, Janet Maslin, New York Times, Sept 19, 2019 (more)(more)

Unseen Script Offers Window into Lorraine Hansberry's Radical Side, New York Times, June 3, 2020 (Marrow of Tradition)

Raising Kane, I, Pauline Kael, New Yorker, Feb 13, 1971

The People Who Knew James Baldwin, Nancy Hass, New York Times, Dec 18, 2020
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After Empire: Chinua Achebe & the Great African Novel, Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, May 19, 2008

Object: On Meret Oppenheim's Fur-Covered Cup, Carolyn Lanchner at MOMA, Nov. 18, 2020

A Socialism Reading List, Wilson Sherwin, Jstore Daily, Nov. 20, 2020

State of Siege by Costa-Gavras: Their Torture, and Ours, Mark Danner, Criterion Collection Website, May 27, 2015

World as a Gift, Robin Wall Kimmerer, James Yeh, The Guardian, May 23, 2020

Susan Sontag on Walter Benjamin: The Last Intellectual, New York Review of Books, Oct 12, 1978 (Coatzee on Benjamin)(Berger on Benjamin)
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Another Vision of Black Elk, Ian Frazier, New Yorker, Dec 26, 2017

Debating Black Freedom: On The Liberator, An Anti-Colonial Magazine, Robert Greene II, Jacobin, Dec 14, 2017

The Desk & the Daring: On Vivian Gornick, Dayna Tortorici, New York Review of Books, Oct 8, 2020

"I can write a better sci-fi story than that": Octavia Butler, Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR, 2017

On Translating Galeano, Mark Fried, Brick, June 1, 2009

Visiting Italo Calvino, Francine du Plessis Gray, New York Times,  June 21, 1981 

The Act of Recounting: Novelist Ricardo Piglia's Struggle for Freedom in 20th Century Argentina, Jessica Loudis, The Nation, Feb 2020

Wendell Chino, Mescalero Apache Leader, The Independent, 1998

Are you Borges? Sometimes, UPI, Oct 14, 1984

Jose Saramago, life of resistance (film), Julian Evans, BBC4, 2002

Clear, Inclusive & Lasting: On Historian Eric Hobsbawn, Mark Mazower, NY Review of Books, July 23, 2020

Siddhartha Deb on John Berger, The Baffler, Jan 2017

A Dictionary of Borges, Evelyn Fishburn & Psiche Hughes, 1990

The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein Documentary, 2009, 1:18:43

Sonny Mehta, Venerable Knopf Publisher, Dead at 77, New York Times, Dec 2019

Psalm, George Oppen, Poetry, 1963

Remembering Writer Willard Motley, Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, April 3, 2015

Why Jack O'Dell Was Forced to Step Down from his Work with Martin Luther King, 35 min doc

An Evening with George Steiner (1929 - 2020), Kinton Ford, n+1, Feb 6, 2020

How Ursula K. Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness Changed all that followed it, Becky Chambers, LitHub, January 22, 2019

Teenage Sylvia Plath on the Joys of Living & Writing, Maria Popova, Brainpickings, Dec 26, 2019

Gratitude & Forbearance: On Christopher Lasch, Norman Birnbaum, The Nation, Sept 14, 2011

Farewell, Norman Birnbaum, The Nation, January 2019

Letter From Venezuela, A Documentary by Nancy Carolina Graterol
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Howard Zinn's Life on the Frontlines, Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor, Jacobin, Oct 4, 2019

The civil rights leader almost no one knows about, Chief Standing Bear, gets a DC statue, Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, Sept 20, 2019

Carolyn Forche's Powerful Reckoning, Suzy Hansen, The Nation, Aug 27, 2019

From the Country's New Poet Laureate, Poems Reclaiming Tribal Culture (on Joy Harjo), Daisy Fried, New York Times, Aug 13, 2019 

Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88, New York Times, August 6, 2019 (more)

In Praise of Samuel R. Delany, Jordy Rosenberg, New York Times, Aug 8, 2019

Revisiting Jill Johnston's Critique of Robert Bly's Iron John, New York Times, Aug 2, 2019, originally 1992

What Being Jewish Means to Bernie, David Klion, Jewish Currents, July 2019

A Long Undeclared Emergency, Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, July 18, 2019

Why did John Brown call Harriet Tubman "General"? New York Times, Feb 15, 2004

Julius Scott's The Common Wind: The three-decade publication saga of a revered manuscript, Tim Bartlett, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 2, 2018

Bernie's 2016 Platform is the 2020 Democratic Primary Script, Rachel Maddow Interview, MSNBC, July 2019

How the Iroquois Great Law of Peace Shaped US Democracy, Terri Hansen, PBS Thirteen, Dec 13, 2018

Unesco Adds Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture to Its Heritage Sites, Lauren Messman, New York Times, July 7, 2019

Roger Straus and His Flair for Selling Literature, Ian Parker, New Yorker, April 2002

Susannah Hunnewell, Publisher of The Paris Review, Dies at 52, Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, June 15, 2019

The editor will see you now: Book editing as therapy, John Williams, New York Times, June 27, 2019

The US' debt to immigrants, Gaiutra Bahadur, The New Republic, June 25, 2019

The Chinese Schindler, Wayne Chang, CNN, July 24, 2015
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In Praise of I.F. Stone, Peter Dreier, Common Dreams, June 18, 2019

The Secret History of How Cuba Helped End Apartheid in South Africa, Democracy Now!, 2013

Was Susan Sontag the actual author of her ex-husband's book? Alison Flood, The Guardian, May 13, 2019

Is Hollywood ready for Boots Riley? Michael Mechanic, Mother Jones, June 2018

Joy Harjo becomes first Native American US poet laureate, Barbara Vandenburgh, USA Today, June 19, 2019

Kim Phuc (aka Napalm Girl) Given Award for Peace Work, The Guardian, Feb 11, 2019 (more)

This is a moment for Democratic Socialism, says Bernie Sanders, YouTube

Radiohead: Download OK Computer! Outtakes so Creeps Won't Win, The Internet, June 11

Ladies & Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen, Documentary, 44 min

Remembering Tin House Magazine, Nicole Rudick, New York Times, June 6, 2019

A Strange Blight: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Meehan Crist, London Review of Books, June 6, 2019

Ross Perot & China, Ben Lerner, The New Yorker, May 20, 2019

The Mobile Resistance: Rumor & Revolution in Julius Scott's Black Atlantic, Manisha Sinha, The Nation, May 20, 2019

Inside Democratic Socialists' Struggle to Move Into the Mainstream, Doug Henwood, The New Republic, May 16, 2019

Literature provides shelter. That's why we need it. Arundhati Roy, The Guardian, May 13, 2019

The Pan-Americanism of Chile's Other Nobel Laureate Gabriela Mistral, Jonathan Cohen, The Audacious Traveler, 2003

John Berger's Ways of Being, Lisa Appignanesi, New York Review, May 9, 2019

Cut, Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, April 15, 2019

I was Bernie's biggest critic in 2016; I've changed my mind, Peter Daou, The Nation, April 22, 2019

How sexism & machismo shaped Iowa Writers' Workshop, Maggie Soherty, New Republic, April 24, 2019

How Bauhaus Redefined What Design Could Do for Society, Nikil Saval, New York Times Magazine, Feb 4, 2019

W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life's Damnable Evanescence, Dies at 91, Margalit Fox, New York Times, March 15, 2019

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is: Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories (video)

Dirty Secrets: Jennifer, Everardo & the CIA in Guatemala, film by Patricia Goudvis

The Yellow House, Sarah Broom, The New Yorker, Aug 24, 2015

It's Still Bernie, Amber A'Lee Frost, Jacobin, Jan 22, 2019 (more)(more)(more)(more)

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Mary Oliver Dies at 83, Hillel Italie, Associated Press, Jan 17, 2019 (more)

Francine du Plessix Gray, Searching Novelist & Journalist, is Dead at 88, William Grimes, New York Times, Jan 14, 2019

Discovery of First New Blue Pigment in 100 Years Leads to Quest for Elusive Red, WBUR, May 14, 2018

How Hermann Hesse Became a Hero of the 60s Counterculture, John Gray, New Statesman, Dec 5, 2018

Kurt Vonnegut's World War II Scrapbook Emerges from Hiding, Lauren Christensen, New York Times, Dec 14, 2018

How the Iroquois Great Law of Peace Shaped US Democracy, Terri Hansen, PBS Web, Dec 13, 2018

William Blum, Critic of US Wars & 'Killing Hope' Author, Dies at 85, Sam Roberts, The New York Times, Dec 11, 2018

Itemised: Frederic Jameson on Karl Ove Knaussgard, London Review of Books, Nov 8, 2018

A Rural Idyll (in Chile) Offers a Tantalizing Other Life, Idra Novey, New York Times, Dec 12, 2018

90 years of Noam Chomsky, John Nichols, The Nation, Dec 7, 2018

The world of the alley: Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo, Ursula Lindsey, The Nation, Oct 25, 2018

Her private space: on Brigid Hughes, editor, Madelaine Lucas, Lithub, Nov 2018

Kathleen Collins's short stories were almost lost to history, Alexandra Alter, New York Times, Dec 8, 2016

Siddhartha: Herman Hesse's Journey to the East, Paul Morris, Tricycle, Fall 1999

Simone Weil, Susan Sontag, New York Review of Books, Feb 1, 1963

Edward Said: Out of Place (film), ​Heba Bourini & Mohammad Jameel, Al Jazeera, Nov 2018     

"Things," Jose Saramago, Guernica, March 15, 2012

"Getting Closer," Steven Millhauser, The New Yorker, Jan 3, 2011

The Strange Case of the Missing Joyce Scholar,  Jack Hitt, New York Times Magazine, June 12, 2018

"Chile: The Spain of Our Generation," Rose Styron, Ramparts, August 1975

Late Obit: Ana Mendietta, Cuban Artist, Monica Castillo, New York Times, Sept 19, 2018

What happened when Philip Glass & Ravi Shankar composed music together, Josh Jones, Culture Trip, March 8, 2017

The hopefulness of Chapo Trap House, Micah Uetricht, Jacobin, September 07, 2018

Joyce Maynard on the persistent allegation of oversharing, New York Times Magazine, Sept 5, 2018

"The Aleph," Jorge Luis Borges, Translation by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, 1945

Is Andrew Gillum the Woke Obama? Blue Telusma, The Grio, August 30, 2018 (more)

You Are the Second Person, Kiese Laymon, Guernica, July 17, 2013

The Book That Predicted Trump, Matt Feeney, New Yorker, November 1, 2016

What Socialism Looks Like, Corey Robin, New York Times, August 24, 2018

"His environmentalist bent did not square well with Mr. Macron’s free-market agenda," Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, August 29, 2018

Photography, Susan Sontag, New York Review of Books, October 18, 1973 (more)

Norman Solomon on the end of superdelegates in the Democratic Primary, Democracy Now!, August 27, 2018

The Iran-Contra Scandal, a documentary, 1987 (See under Honegger, minute 11:00, more, more)

Cinema & Surveillance from Fritz Lang to Michael Mann, Nick Pinkerton, The Baffler, July 2018

The Battle Over History, & Howard Zinn, Kim Scipes, Counterpunch, August 22, 2018 (more)

The World of Eduardo Galeano, Mark Engler, The Nation, September 10 - 17, 2018 (more)

Rep. Ro Khanna's Fight Against American Election Meddling, James Carden, The Nation, July 23, 2018

Why Did Obama Demobilize his Grassroots Movement? Micah Sifry, New Republic, July 25, 2018

Young Leftist Candidates are Breathing New Radicalism into Stale Climate Politics, Kate Aronoff, The Intercept, July 5, 2018

When Ramparts Reigned, Meagan Day, Jacobin, May 28, 2018

The Refusal to Make Things Easy for Anyone: On Philip Roth, Marco Roth, n+1, May 25, 2018

Bernie Sanders has conquered the Democratic Party, Jeff Spross, The Week, April 24, 2018

Charles Johnson, The Art of Fiction, interviewed by Cary Goldstein, Paris Review, Spring 2018

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's remains discovered in wine cellar, Maev Kennedy, Guardian, April 12, 2018

Maria Shriver interviews poet Mary Oliver, O Magazine, April 9, 2018

How I became a writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, New Yorker, October 6, 2003

In her first novel in twenty years, what is so remarkable is Arundhati Roy's combinatory genius, Joan Acocella, New Yorker, June 12, 2017

Is the next Nobel laureate in literature tending bar in a dusty Australian town? Mark Binelli, New York Times Magazine, March 27, 2018

50 Years Since His Death, MLK Jr.'s Philosophical Work is All But Forgotten, Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, April 4, 2018

Edward Said: The work of the late Palestinian intellectual is the starting point for an innovative series of concerts in Berlin, Shirley Apthorp, Financial Times, March 30, 2018

Postscript, John Berger, Ben Lerner, New Yorker, Jan 6, 2017

The Slow Death of Islamabad's Secondhand Bookshops, Usman Ahmad, The Guardian, March 28, 2018

The Astonishing Appeal of Paulo Coelho, Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, May 7, 2007

​"Our district is 70% people of color & we've never had a person of color represent us," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her campaign for Congress, Now This News, March 2019

Do What Katharine Gun Did: Daniel Ellsberg on the British Whisteblower, The Real News, March 5, 2018

The Naked & the Read: Norman Mailer's Home Library, J. Michael Lennon, Times Literary Supplement, March 7, 2018

To The Future Readers of Lucie Brock-Broido, Stephanie Burt, Paris Review Daily, March 8, 2018 (more & more)

​Meet Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Iceland’s Left-Wing, Environmentalist, Feminist Prime Minister, John Nichols, The Nation, March 8, 2018

Virginia Woolf's Photography Debuts Online, Sarah Cascone, Artnet News, February 20, 2018

The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature, Marcela Valdes on Mario Vargas Llosa, The New York Times Magazine, February 20, 2018 (more)

Frederick Douglas in Brooklyn, Sam Roberts, New York Times, February 15, 2018

The Frailty Thing: Radiohead frontman on his debt to Neil Young, Mark Cooper, BBC TV, ​January 27, 2008 (more)

​"Mirrors for Reality," Eudora Welty reviews Virginia Woolf, New York Times, April 16, 1944

            ARGUMENTS

Zone of Nonbeing: Frantz Fanon in his time & in ours, Ken Chen, The Nation, June 3, 2024

America's National Parks Should Be Returned to Native People, David Treuer, Atlantic, May 2021 (more)(more)(more)

Mexico as a Haven for Runaway Slaves from the U.S. NPR, 2021 (more)

​Leonard Peltier: The longest-held U.S. political prisoner, Nick Estes, Jacobin, March 2023

The Civilian Casualties Files: U.S. Atrocities in Afghanistan, Syria & Iraq, New York Times, 2022

U.S. Sanctions are brutal, inhumane & they don't work, Branko Marcetic, Jacobin, May 9, 2023

Rise of the Valkyries, Seyward Darby, Harpers, Sept 2017

Who Scalped First? Dean Chavers, Indian Country Today, Oct 2, 2017

Three Decades Ago, US Museums Were Told to Report All Native Remains in Their Collections: So Why Are They Still There? Gabriella Angeleti, The Art Newspaper, Nov 8, 2022

The Forgotten History of Japanese-American Designers' World War II Internment, Alexandra Lange, Curbed, Jan 31, 2017

Mike Davis's Forecast for the Left, Micah Uetricht, The Nation, 2022 (more)

The Merit of Anti-Anti-Communism, Ghodsee & Sehon, Aeon, Undated

Bad News: Selling the Story of Disinformation, Joseph Bernstein, Harpers, Sept 2021

Thoughts on the State of Literature, 2022, Shirley Freitas

How Emmett Till's Death Led to the Invention of the "Liberal" Media, Chris Lamb, The Nation, Sept 1, 2022 

In Chile, Major Vote Looms Over Rights of Nature, Sierra Magazine, Aug 18, 2022

Which Italian America? Vinnie Rotondaro, Current Affairs, July 22, 2022

Recitatif: Zadie Smith on the Genius of Toni Morrison's Only Short Story, The New Yorker, January 23, 2022

Paul & Julia Child Face McCarthyism, Jennet Connat, Pop Matters, Apr 2011

A Catastrophic Loss of Faith in America, Pankaj Mishra, The Drift, June 10, 2022

When the FBI Spied on Journalist James Risen, James Risen, Intercept, June 10, 2022

Black Reconstruction: On W.E.B Du Bois's Magnum Opus, Gerald Horne, The Nation, May 2022

World War II Was a Battle For Empire, Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, April 4, 2022

Destroying the economy while letting in aid: the U.S. in Afghanistan, NYTimes, Dec 2021

National Endowment for Democracy Deletes Projects Funded for Ukraine, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Covert Action, March 7, 2022 (more)

CIA Training Special Forces in Ukraine to "Kill Russians," Zack Dorfman, Yahoo News, Jan 22, 2022

CIA Funded Experiments on Danish Orphans, Kit Klarenberg, Shadowproof, Jan 2022

In Trees Rings & Radioactive Carbon, Signs of Vikings in North America, Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, Oct 21, 2021

We Are Still Here: The Past & Future of Native California, Julian Brave NoiseCat, The Nation, Jan 24, 2022

The Lenape Diaspora, Once on Brink of Erasure, Championed in New York Exhibition, Gabriella Angeleti, The Art Newspaper, Jan 24, 2022

Jan 6: Grievance: From Vietnam to the Capitol Steps, George Black,  
Washington Spectator, April 2021 

Jan 6: Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the US Capitol, New York Times Documentary, 40 minutes

Latinos still struggling with fallout of first nuclear explosion, Russell Contreras, Axios, July 15, 2021
"Alex Haley Taught American About Race--And A Young Man How to Write," Michael Patrick Hearn, New York Times, Dec 18, 2021

"Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Airstrikes," Azmat Khan, New York Times, Dec 18, 2021

Why the Biden presidency feels like such a disappointment, Corey Robin, New York Times, Dec 10, 2021

Back to Manahatta, Stewart Curtis, Indian Country Today

Ten Years After Occupy, We Finally Have a Left that Matters, Hadas Thier,   Jacobin, Oct 16, 2021

Who Killed African Icon Thomas Sankara? Trial Opens 34 Years After His Death, Ruth Maclean,   NYTimes, Oct 11, 2021

Did Human Rights Watch sabotage Colombia's peace agreement? Greg Grandin, The Nation, 2016

On eve of 9/11 anniversary, U.S. mistakes Afghan NGO worker for terrorist, kills him, lies, NYTimes, 9/10

"'History' has spilled out of classrooms and museums and flowed into the streets," Amitav Ghosh in Orion, Sept, 2021
 
Doctrine of Discovery, Short Film

A New Deal for Writers in America, Scott Borchert, NYTimes, July 6, 2021

Main Witness Against Assange Admits He Lied to Avoid Prosecution, Democracy Now, June 28, 2021

Who Killed Saudi Journalist Khashoggi? They Were US Trained, NYTimes, June 22, 2021

Orientalism & Its Afterlives, Vivek Chibber, Catalyst, Fall 2020

Who Really Killed Malcolm X? NYTimes, Feb 6, 2020 (more)

Can Historians Be Traumatized by History? James Robins, The New Republic, Feb 17, 2021

On Being Korean in America in the time of Axis of Evil & Rocket Man, Ju-Hyun Park, PRI, Nov 8, 2017

U.S. Hypocrisy on Cuba & Other Nations Continues, Reese Erlich, The Progressive, Jan 8, 2021

America's Collusion with Neo-Nazis, Stephen Cohen, The Nation, May 2018

Why Socialism? Albert Einstein, Monthly Review, May 1949

The CIA's Afghan Death Squads, Intercepted, Dec 20, 2020

Problems & Pitfalls of Commercializing Kelp, Lucy Jakub, New York Review of Books, Dec 17, 2020

The Therapy Wars, Oliver Burkeman, Guardian,  Jan 7, 2016

Thorsten Veblen: Gadfly to American Plutocrats, Simon Torracinta, Boston Review, Dec 2, 2020

Liberal Establishment A Stranger to Self-Examination, Pankaj Mishra on Bland Fanatics, The Nation, Nov. 23, 2020 (Kenan Malik) 

How the CIA Penetrated Labor, Tim Shorrock, The Nation, May 19, 2003

37 Million Displaced by America's Wars Since 9/11, New York Times Magazine, Sept 8, 2020 (more)

How Google was born of the CIA, Jeff Nesbit, Quartz, Dec 28, 2017

​Come to Cuba, flout the law, says Philip Agee, CIA dissenter, CNN, June 25, 2000
The sick & dying coal ash workers tell their stories, Austyn Gaffney, The Guardian, Aug 17, 2020

You Say You Want a Revolution: On a Forgotten Back & Forth Between Nina Simone & John Lennon, Alexander Billet, Jacobin, February 2020

How to Grow a Dense, Native Forest Quickly, Derek Markham, Treehugger, July 6, 2020 (more)

Why is Joe Kennedy Doing This? Russell Berman, The Atlantic, Aug 4, 2020

For Oklahoma Tribe, Vindication at Last, Jack Healey, New York Times, July 11, 2020

Nancy Pelosi: A Leader Without Leading, David Dayen, American Prospect, July 7, 2020

All EFF'ed Up, Yasha Levine, The Baffler, July 2018

How Racism Hurts Environmentalism, Sierra Club, June 16, 2020

How NYPD impunity works, Eric Umansky, ProPublica, June 23, 2020

​From Bandung to BRICs, Rafia Zakaria, Jacobin, Oct 31, 2013

How the New York Review gets Perry Anderson & Brazil wrong, John Trumpbour,  Jacobin, June 21, 2020

Leaked documents reveal right-wing oligarchs' plot to overthrow Mexican leader, Ben Norton,   Grayzone, June 18, 2020

Honoring W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jacobin, Jan 21, 2019
 
Has the American left lost its mind? No, Nathan Robinson, Current Affairs, June 15, 2020

Pandemics result from destruction of nature, says UN, Damion Carrington, The Guardian, June 17, 2020

Gandhi Didn't Believe Black Lives Mattered; His Racism Should be Acknowledged by Historians & the Public, Obadele Kambon, The Print, Dec 24, 2018

The New York Times Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year's Coup in Bolivia, Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, June 8, 2020

A Bitter Election. Accusations of Fraud. And Now Second Thoughts, New York Times, June 7, 2020

America, This is Your Chance, Michelle Alexander, New York Times, June 8, 2020

The Politics Trump Makes, Corey Robin, n+1, Jan. 11, 2017

George Floyd's Death is a Failure of Generations of Leadership, Elizabeth Hinton, NYTimes, June 2, 2020

Quichotte is Salman Rushdie's latest. But the act is getting old, Parul Sehgal, New York Times, May 2020

This is what happens if you don't pay your student loans, Robert Exley Jr., CNBC, May 20, 2020

Arundhati Roy & Bill McKibben on the Pandemic: The Reckoning, 60 Minutes, May 17, 2020

How West Virginia Lost the Workers' Revolution, Hamilton Nolan, Splinter News, May 5, 2017 (more)

Noam Chomsky on the Propaganda Model, BBC, with Andrew Marr, February 1996

Is it Journalism or Espionage? Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, May 18, 2020
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"Worth the Price?" Joe Biden & The Launch of the Iraq War, a short film by Mark Weisbrot, Feb 2020 (runs 19 min)

Nathan Robinson Predicts Biden Will Lose, Jeremy Scahill, Intercepted Podcast, March 10, 2020

The Afghanistan Papers: Officials in both parties knew the war was a lie and a failure, Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, Dec 9, 2019

Americans are told every day that Russians are interfering in our politics. We've been interfering in Russia's for a century, Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe, March 11, 2020

The radical possibilities of not paying your student loans, Nick Martin, New Republic, Feb 7, 2020

Did Ronald Reagan also stole the presidency from his rival? His alleged "October Surprise" is now confirmed by documents, Branko Marcetic, Jacobin, Jan 21, 2019

​Cree artist Kent Monkman asks visitors to confront North America’s colonial past, at the Met, Kate Taylor, Globe & Mail, Dec 20, 2019

Year After Year, They Lied To Keep Us in Afghanistan, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post, Dec 17, 2019 (more)

A CIA-Backed Militia in Afghanistan Targeted Clinics, Killing Medical Workers, Civilians, Andrew Quilty, The Intercept, Oct 30, 2019

Max Boot & the Fantasy World of US Empire, John Roosa, Jacobin, Dec 2, 2019

Native Historian Steven Crum on the 100th Anniversary of the Frontier Thesis, Tribal College Journal, Winter 1993

​In Defense of Julian Assange, James Goodale, Harper's, April 2019 (ACLU)(Amnesty)(Amnesty Ireland)(Jeremy Corbyn)(Edward Snowden)(Daniel Ellsberg)(Centre for Investigative Journalism)(Zephyr Teachout)(Ari Melber)(Peter Van Buren)(Bruce Shapiro)(Glenn Greenwald)(John Oliver)(Committee to Protect Journalists)(Trevor Timm)(Charlie Savage/NYTimes)(Arundhati Roy)(Ai Weiwei)

The Fall of Nate Silver, Bloviator, The New Republic, Nov 18, 2019

Lessons in Survival, Emily Raboteau, New York Review of Books, Nov 21, 2019

Fighting Erasure, Parul Sehgal, New York Times, Feb 2, 2016
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Brazil: Lula was framed, Tony Burke, Jacobin, Sept 26, 2019 (more)(more)
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Does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born? Astra Taylor, The Guardian, Oct 1, 2019

Bernie's Path to Victory, Jacobin, Oct 1, 2019

Socialism Works (When You Don't Sabotage it), Case Number 871, Bolivia: Zeeshan Aileen, The Nation, Oct 1, 2019

​Is the US on the brink of revolution? Serbulent Turan, The Conversation, Sept 26, 2019

The west's self-proclaimed custodians of democracy failed to notice it rotting away, Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian, Sept 20, 2019

The Necessary Radicalism of Bernie Sanders, Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, September 12, 2019

Our democracy's ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true, Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine, Aug 14, 2019

Did India commit the world's first mass blinding in Kashmir? Mirza Waheed, Guardian, 2016 

Did NPR Violate its Own Ethics Handbook in its Venezuela Activism? Lucas Koerner, FAIR, Aug 5, 2019

Jennifer Harbury: '​The cartel leaders are the same people that worked hand in glove with the United States,' Democracy Now! July 2018

"We are here because you were there!" Why Should Immigrants Respect Our Borders When we Don't Respect Theirs? Suketu Mehta, New York Times, June 4, 2019

Brett Stephens, Warmonger, Andrew Bacevich, The American Conservative, June 18, 2019

Before AOC There was the SPD, Adam Sacks,   Jacobin, June 13, 2019

The Case Against the Case Against Socialism, Nathan Robinson, Current Affairs, June 10, 2019

Who's Afraid of the New Green Deal? Kim Phillips-Fein, New Republic, May 29, 2019

Down to Earth: Why is the story of climate change so hard to tell? Meehan Crist, The New Republic, April 9, 2019

Who was naive about Bernie Sanders's meeting with the Sandinistas? Jonathan Katz, Mother Jones, May 30, 2019

Iraq war was not a tragedy but a crime, part 2, Andrew Bacevich, New York Times, April 19, 2019 (see part 1 under Antoon)

U.S. owes reparations for killing 1600 Syrian civilians in Raqqa, says Amnesty, Democracy Now! May 23, 2019

U.S. workers are paying high taxes but without any of the benefits, Matt Bruenig, Jacobin, May 2019

Is Maddow as bonkers as Glenn Beck? Jacob Bacharak, New Republic, April 4, 2019
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Almost every child in Yemen is in need of aid, Al Jazeera English, March 25, 2019

All About Pete Buttigieg,  Various Media: Current Affairs (anti-working class technocrat), Jacobin (Social Darwinist), Common Dreams (Israel hawk), CNBC ("All Lives Matter"), NY Times (David Brooks loves him)...

Can Bernie's Foreign Policy Whiz Take on the Blob? David Klion, The Nation, Feb 6, 2019

Are we being lied to on Venezuela? Yes, Ken Silverstein, Counterpunch, March 1, 2019 (more)(more)(more)(more)

Kashmir as a Nuclear Flash, Arundhati Roy, Huffington Post, March 1, 2019

Free Download: The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, Greg Palast

The War Crimes of Elliot Abrams & the Liberals Who Love Them, Paul Heidman, In These Times, Feb 25, 2019

Inside Trump's Venezuela Pivot, Jonathan Swan, Axios, Feb 24 

Venezuela: Why the Chavistas are fiercely loyal to Maduro, Nadja Drost, PBS Newshour, Feb 24, 2019 

Why Bernie's history of racial justice activism matters, Shaun King, Jacobin, Feb 21, 2019

The Myth of the Wall, Greg Grandin, New York Times, Feb 20, 2019

Jeremy Scahill's Intercepted Podcast on Venezuela, Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept, Feb 13, 2019

Capitalism's New Clothes, Yvgeny Morozov, The Baffler, Feb 4, 2019
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Churchill the Fanatic, Richard Seymour, Jacobin, Jan 11, 2018

Times' Brett Stephens is Trolling Dem Socialism via Venezuela, Greg Grandin, The Nation, Jan 29, 2019

Are Democrats Climate Deniers? Branko Marcetic, Jacobin, Jan 28, 2019

The Plight of the Political Convert, Corey Robin, New Yorker, Jan 24, 2019

Dissent or Assent? George Scialabba on Michael Walzer, The Nation, Nov 24, 2004

The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class, Pankaj Mishra, The New York Times, Jan 17, 2019
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"It is in the interest of women of all generations to invent a complex, resistant, and sexually curious strain in feminist thought and action," Ann Snitow, Dissent, Spring 2018

The troubling fate of a 1973 film about the first black man in the CIA, Richard Brody, The New Yorker, July 20, 2018

There's Nothing Virtuous About Finding Common Ground, Tayari Jones, Time, Oct 25, 2018

How Colonialism Actually Worked, Ramachandra Guha, The Wire, Dec 2, 2018

Toward an indigenous Green New Deal, Winona LaDuke on Democracy Now!, Dec 7, 2018

George H.W. Bush & the Iran-Contra Scandal, Arun Gupta, Intercept, Dec 7, 2018

"The shooting started at midnight": On the Panama Invasion, by Barbara Trent (more)

American Hero or War Criminal?, Jeremy Scahill, Intercepted, December 5, 2018 (more)(more)

The game changing promise of a Green New Deal, Naomi Klein, Intercept, Nov 27, 2018

The psychopharmacology of everyday life, Jamieson Webster, New York Review, Nov 19, 2018

New documents show secret CIA plan to test drugs on prisoners, Dror Ladin, ACLU, Nov 13, 2018

Building a New Green Deal, Matt Huber, Verso Blog, Nov 19, 2018

Why you should care about Assange, Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, Nov 23, 2018

​Why the Children Fleeing Central America Will not Stop Coming, Oscar Martinez, The Nation, July 30, 2014

​"I can monetize those eyeballs": Our Hate Feeds Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times Magazine, Sept 5, 2018 (more)

What the British did to India, Omer Aziz, LARB, September 1, 2018

Is Russia really fascist? A response to Timothy Snyder, Marlene Laruelle, PONARS Eurasia, September 2018

Two CIA officers' "terrorist-supply operations" in Libya, Seymour Hersh, New York Times Magazine, June 21, 1981

Is an economic crash coming? Yes, Robert Reich, Newsweek, September 4, 2018

White Supremacy Fuels Latin American Interventionism, Democracy Now! interview with Kathleen Belew, July 24, 2018

The John McCain Phenomenon, Patrick Blanchfield, The Baffler, August 26, 2018 (more)(more)(more)(more)

Glenn Greenwald, Bane of their Resistance, Ian Parker, New Yorker, September 3

Losing Earth, Nathaniel Rich, New York Times Magazine, August 1, 2018

What Next for Assange? Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, July 21, 2018

If Macron is such a stalwart defender of liberalism against fascism, why is he appropriating so many far-right ideas? Harrison Stetler, The Baffler, July 11, 2018

US Reopens Investigation into Emmett Till Slaying, Alan Blinder, New York Times, July 12, 2018

In Syria, Rebels Backed by CIA Fight Those Backed by Pentagon, W.J. Hennigan, LA Times, March 27, 2016

The Eviction Machine in NYC, Kim Barker et al, New York Times, May 20, 2018

Connecticut bill aims to sideline the electoral college, Mark Pazniokas & Clarice Silber, CT Mirror, May 5, 2018

Tim Snyder represents "apotheosis of a paranoid style that emerged among liberals in Trump’s wake," Sophie Pinkham, The Nation, May 28, 2018

Indigenous knowledge: What non-indigenous ecologists learn from listening to the indigenous, Jim Robbins, Yale 360, April 26, 2018 (more)

Impeach Clarence Thomas, Margery Eagan, Boston Globe, April 23, 2018

The Democratic Party is paying millions for Hillary Clinton's email list, Walker Bragman & Michael Sainato, The Intercept, April 25, 2018

If Democrats listened to their voters, they'd be moving hard to the left, Sean McElwee & Colin McAuliffe, Vice, April 13, 2018 (more)(more)

"In empirical terms, Mounk's point is nonsensical," Daniel Denvir, Thea Riofrancos on Yascha Mounk's "Zombie Liberalism" in n+1, April 11, 2018

Defending the Apu stereotype again? Maybe the Simpsons has run its course, Shuja Haider, Guardian, April 10, 2018 (more)

Most people ​can't name one person lynched between 1877 and 1950, though thousands were, says Bryan Stevenson, Nia-Malika Henderson, CNN, April 9, 2018

A third of college students don't have enough to eat, according to a new study, Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, April 5, 2018 (more) #USCorruption

Martin Luther King Jr. was a radical. We must not sterilize his legacy, Cornel West, The Guardian, April 3, 2018 (more)(more)(more)

15 years on, let's tell the truth about Iraq. It was not a blunder but a crime, Sinan Antoon, New York Times, March 19, 2018 (more) #USCorruption

There are two ways a president can build a legacy & Obama did neither, Elaine Kamarck, Boston Review, March 27, 2018

Repeal the Second Amendment, argues retired Supreme Court Justice Stevens, New York Times, March 27, 2018

Why MOMA's ​Exhibition of Towering Brazilian Modernist Tarsila do Amaral Misses the Mark, Sara Roffino, Artnet, March 1, 2018

In Winston Churchill, Hollywood Rewards a Mass Murderer, Shashi Tharoor, Washington Post, March 10, 2018 (more)

A Short Retelling of the US' Long History of "Meddling" in Foreign Elections, Scott Shane, New York Times, Feb 17, 2018 (more, more) #USCorruption

Have Unpaid Student Debt? Now you can't work, ​Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Stacy Cowley and Natalie Kitroeff, New York Times Magazine, Nov 18, 2017 #USCorruption

"Why Do White People Like What I Write?" Pankaj Mishra reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates, London Review of Books, February 22, 2018

To Boost the Economy? Erase Student Loan Debt, Eric Levitz, New York Magazine, February 8, 2018

For a Better Marriage, Act Like a Single Person, Stephanie Coontz, The New York Times, February 10, 2018

The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper Ballots, Jill Leovy, The Atlantic, December 2017

Candidates Who Signed Up to Battle Donald Trump Must Get Past the Democratic Party First, Ryan Grim & Lee Fang, Intercept, January 23, 2018 (more) 

​How the GOP Rigs Elections, Ari Berman, Rolling Stone, January 25, 2018 (more) 

My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror, James Risen, The Intercept, January 3, 2018

RED FLAGS/FALSE IDOLS

When the CIA Penetrated
...Student Movements
​...The Media (more)(more)
...Labor
...Hollywood (more)
...Visual Art

​U.S. Meddling in Ukraine ("Not One Inch Eastward," A Promise to Gorbachev, NSA Archive)(Guardian, 2004)(Wikileaks, 2008)(The Nation, 2014)(Foreign Policy in Focus, 2014)

Trumpesque: Biden Boosts Trump Policies
-FOREIGN POLICY
(Prosecuting Journalists)
(In Biden's Foreign Policy, Friends & Foes Claim Echoes of Trump)
(US Embassy Stays in Jerusalem)
-ENVIRONMENTAL 
​(Drilling in Alaska)
(Killing Wild Horses) (Deforestation & Looting in Old Growth Forests)(Biden Opens 80 Million Acres of Gulf of Mexico for Oil)(Keystone Pipeline Alternate Route, Line 3)
-IMMIGRATION 
(Disillusionment of a Young Biden Official)(Building Border Wall)("Do Not Come," says VP Harris to Central American Refugees)(Forced Labor of ICE-Held Immigrants)(Increased ICE Spending)(Secret Deportations Title 42) (Spying On Visa Applicants' Social Media Posts via Trump Muslim Ban) 
-LABOR & TRADE
(Busting Unions)(Biden Keeps Trump Tariffs)(Biden Bans Solar From World's Leader: China)
-CRIME
(Clemency)(Westfall Act & Rape Allegations)
​-DIPLOMACY 
(Starving Cuba, More) (Expanding Nuclear Arsenal, More)(Star Wars/Missile Defense, More), (Chinese Companies Banned from US Investment)(Limiting Tech Sales to China) 
-AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL
Negotiating with the Taliban, Honoring Withdrawal
-MISC 
(No Benefits for Puerto Ricans)

David Brooks's Two Masters: Draws Second Salary from Facebook-Funded Institute, Buzzfeed News, March 4, 2021

Johns Hopkins, Bristol-Myers must face $1bn syphilis infection suit, Jonathan Stempel, Reuters, Jan 4, 2019

American Censorship (American Herald Tribune, Edward Snowden, Victor Marchetti, Time Magazine)
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The Aesthetics of the CIA, & other takes on the Cultural Cold War (Richard Elman)(Christopher Lasch)
​(David Price)(Peter Matthiessen)

P-Source: How Princeton and Other Humanists Changed Spycraft, Elyse Graham, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Dec 2020

27 Essays I'm Not Writing About Elizabeth Koch, Hilary Plum, Fence, Fall 2020 (more)

Eric Clapton, Hack Guitarist & White Supremacist, Tim Sommers, Inside Hook, June 5, 2018

Journalism's Gates Keepers: Is the Gates Foundation Paying for this Story? Columbia Journalism Review, August 2020

Joe Biden's Hawkish Role in the Iraq War, Mark Weisbrot, Guardian, Feb 2020 (more)(more)
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Tlaib ponders boycott of Bill Maher for trashing BDS as a 'bullshit purity test', Haaretz, Aug 19, 2019 (more)

Ilhan Omar urges boycott of Tucker Carlson over racist remarks, Democracy Now! July 11, 2019 (more)

New York City purged 200,000 voters in 2016. It was no mistake, Stacey Asip-Kneitschel, City & State NY, Nov 6, 2018

Nestle Under Fire for Marketing Claims on Baby Milk, Arthur Nelson, The Guardian, February 1, 2018 (more, water, slave labor in cat food)

Kamala Harris was not a progressive prosecutor, Lara Bazelon, New York Times, January 2019

Governor During Flint Water Crisis Made Harvard Fellow, Amy Russo, Huffpost, July 1, 2019 (more)

Washington Post Fact Checker Strains His Credibility to Attack Bernie Sanders, Tommy Christopher, Media-ite, July 1, 2019

Who is Sydney Embers, the NY Times hatchet wielder against Bernie Sanders? Katie Halper, FAIR, June 28, 2019

Wayfair employees walkout, as company does business with child detention facilities, Eion Higgins, Truthout, June 26, 2019 (more)

United extends ban on Boeing 737 Max after regulator finds more problems, Reuters, June 26, 2019 (more)

Leader of America's Fracking Boom Has Second Thoughts, Wall Street Journal, June 2019
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Is Morrissey a Fascist? Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, May 14, 2019 (more)

Boycott the New York Post, say Yemeni bodega owners over Ilhan Omar attacks, The Hill, April 14, 2019 (more)

Is Fox News propaganda? Yes (Duh). Jane Mayer, New Yorker, (more)(more)(more)(more)(more)

The Inside Story of America's Student Debt Machine, Ryann Liebenthal, Mother Jones, Fall 2018

Cancel Your Flights: Flight attendants call for general strike if Trump shuts gov, Tess Bonn, The Hill, Feb 14, 2019

NBC ties Tulsi Gabbard to Russia using firm caught fabricating Russia data, Glenn Greenwald, Intercept, Feb 3, 2019

Democrats Threaten Starbucks Boycott if Schulz Runs, Newsweek, Jan 30, 2019 (more)(more)

Beto O'Rourke Broke Pledge Not To Take Oil & Gas Money, Alex Kotch, Sludge, Dec 10, 2018 (more)

Staff Want Answers as  Museum Official Revealed as Tear Gas Manufacturer, Vartanian, Small & Weber, Hyperallergic, Nov 30, 2018 (more)

Dark Money at Tufts University, David Nickerson, The Tufts Daily, Nov 26, 2018

CVS gave $500 million to anti-Semitic Trump dark money group, Twitter, Jane Mayer, May 31, 2018

Nike Donates Millions to Republicans, While Making Billions off Kaepernick, Stephen Krockett, Jr, The Root, Sept 24, 2018

​​Bank of America Accused of Freezing Accounts, Brennan Edwards, The Root, August 31, 2018

California Democrats Call for In-N-Out Boycott, Angela Hart, Sacramento Bee, August 30, 2018

An Anti-Trump Movement is Calling for Boycott of These Companies, Kate Taylor & Mary Hanbury, Business Insider, July 25, 2018