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Alfred W. McCoyThe Nation |
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Just as Egypt snatched a diplomatic victory from the jaws of military defeat in 1956 by shutting the Suez Canal, so Iran has now closed off the Middle...
Some tales can cross cultures, continents, and even centuries to arrive in our own era with their timeless truths pretty much intact. That’s...
America is barreling towards authoritarianism at such a breakneck pace that it should alarm every single one of us. But instead of meeting this moment...
Writers often try to gild their tawdry times or dignify their flawed leaders with lofty literary analogies — notably, America as the New Jerusalem;...
For writers, the future has long been a tricky terrain. While the past can prove unsettling and the present uncomfortable, the future seems to free...
In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin...
Count on one thing: if Mark Twain, the famed American author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, were alive today, he would certainly have written...
With the Oval Office looking more like a middle school classroom every day, let’s recall the way, once upon a time, we responded to childhood taunts...
Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral...
In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from...
If these last few weeks are any indication, the next four years will bring avoidable suffering for much of the world.
If France, Russia, China, and the U.S. now give way in a collective version of collapse, instead of one succeeding another, we may come to know a...
Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. Curiously enough, his words...
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