It's Activist April
Fighting for democracy at Guantánamo and Boğaziçi University--and on the Las Vegas Strip: plus China, infrastructure, reforming the police, and Glenn Greenwald's big troll
Ruby Duncan of the National Welfare Rights Organization. Photo credit: Marquezeagles/Wikimedia Commons
Featured Essay:
John Keane, “China’s Return to Global Dominance: What it means for America — and for the future of democracy around the world.” (April 1, 2021)
Politics Reconsidered
Jeremy Varon, “Obama Said He’d Close Guantánamo — These Activists Are Pushing Biden to Finish the Job: What should have been an end to the Guantánamo saga in 2012 was only the beginning of more grueling work for this anti-torture coalition.” (April 1, 2021)
Birgan Gokmenoglu, “The Struggle at Turkey’s Boğaziçi University: Attacks on higher education tighten the grip of the AKP’s hegemonic project.” (April 1, 2021)
History Reconsidered
Josh Ireland, “Winston Churchill’s North American Tour: In the summer of 1929, the future prime minister almost quit politics.” (March 30, 2021)
Annelise Orleck, “When Welfare Was a Route to Community Empowerment in Las Vegas: In 1971, Black women workers seized control of their own destiny—and won.” (April 1, 2021)
Politics
Monika Nalepa and Colleen Murphy, “The Case for Creating a National Lustration Commission for the United States: It’s a way to stabilize fragile democratic institutions.” (April 1, 2021)
Poetry
Val Vinokur, “The Big Cats, Part XII: On Dreams and Dreamers.” (March 30, 2021)
Columnists
Claire Potter, “Glenn Greenwald Punches Down: Worse, when he attacked an intern for USA Today, this established and wealthy journalist also threw the truth under the bus.” (April 1, 2021)
Heather Cox Richardson, “Infrastructure Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving: But the GOP will oppose this important jobs bill and the taxes one billionaires that could redistribute wealth to millions of Americans.” (April 1, 2021)
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