Excellent piece by Andrea Pitzer on the past and future of concentration camps. What does a country owe desperate people whom it does not consider to be its citizens? The twentieth century posed this
Home Warsan Shire no one leaves home unlesshome is the mouth of a shark. you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well. your neighbours running faster than you, the boy you w
Very useful piece by Dara Lind: At any given time, for the past several weeks, more than 2,000 children have been held in the custody of US Border Patrol without their parents. Legally, they’re not
Today is the sixth anniversary of one of the very worst decisions in the long and largely ignoble history of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appropriately, the 4th Circuit is allowing Judge Ha
Earlier today, Paul discussed this LOL Nothing Matters post by Kevin Drum, arguing it was OK that the media was substantially under-covering E. Jean Carroll’s credible rape allegations because n
On the occasion of its 100th anniversary, I wrote a short history at the National Interest of the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow: On June 21, 1919, the crews of seventy-four Ger
Masha Gessen on the curious logic by which if something is bad enough that must mean it’s not happening: Donald Trump has played this trick on Americans many times, beginning with
On June 25, 1919, the strike committee leading the Winnipeg General Strike called off the strike, effective the next morning. Perhaps the most famous strike in Canadian history and unquestionably the