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Israel and the United States are now at war with Iran, a conflict framed by both leaders through a stark and self-serving moral binary. In the words...
Disappearance under neoliberal fascism does not operate through a single institutional or aesthetic form. Alongside the spectacular violence of ICE...
The United States is not merely awash in brutalizing and murderous acts of state-sanctioned violence. It is being restructured by them. The killings...
The United States is under siege, not by a foreign enemy, but by the Trump administration, which has transformed governance itself into a form of...
In this political climate, outrage is incessantly manufactured and then swiftly displaced, replaced by the next shock before the public can assemble...
In this political climate, outrage is incessantly manufactured and then swiftly displaced, replaced by the next shock before the public can assemble...
What is at stake is far more than a rejection of gangster capitalism and the global misery it produces. The deeper danger lies in recognizing that...
We inhabit a historical moment that resurrects, with chilling familiarity, the state terrorism once made visible under Hitler, Franco, Mussolini,...
Recently, Donald Trump shared a video known as the “Flying King”– an AI-generated spectacle in which he pilots a fighter plane emblazoned with...
Orchestrated brutality reflected not only Miller’s ideology but also his personality. Even his former colleagues described him as insufferable,...
The irony is unbearable. Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption...
Trump’s obsession with violence is more than a grotesque fixation on power and cruelty; it is a commentary on politics as pathology, a grim theater...
The Democratic Party has forfeited every claim to moral and political credibility. It is not a bulwark against fascism but an accomplice to it, a...
Trump’s authoritarian obsession with violence and punishment is evident in his relentless drive to criminalize dissent and weaponize the state...
In Gaza, the atrocities visited upon children are unspeakable, a violence that staggers the imagination. Omer Bartov, a distinguished scholar of...
In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is not...
For Said, intellectuals--those who are alive to thinking critically and acting bravely-- must engage critically with the world, confronting its...
In an age where culture is the primary battlefield, authoritarianism thrives on ignorance, historical amnesia and the brutal aesthetics of cruelty,...
In an age where culture is the primary battlefield, authoritarianism thrives on ignorance, historical amnesia and the brutal aesthetics of cruelty,...
Violence, soaked in blood and stripped of shame, has become the defining language of governance in the age of Trump and the global resurgence of...
All across the United States, people are rising up--refusing to be complicit in the slow-motion annihilation of democracy. They march against a regime...
We live in an age when disappearance is no longer a metaphor. It is both a threat and a governing principle. Under the Trump regime, language is no...
we are witnessing a form of ideological cleansing—a scorched-earth assault on critical consciousness. Education, both public and higher, is under...
The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is not an isolated event—it is a chilling testament to the authoritarian turn in the United States, where dissent is...
Neoliberalism has always been more than an economic project; it is a political and educational weapon designed to erode social solidarity and...
Donald Trump’s re-election marks not just a political turning point but the ascendance of a corpse-like order, a nation stiffening under the weight...
Within days of his return to office, President Donald Trump unleashed a chilling display of authoritarianism, providing a stark reminder of the...
Before even taking office, Trump has conjured grotesque visions of what he once called the dreams of a “unified Reich.” His delusions of grandeur,...
Before even taking office, Trump has conjured grotesque visions of what he once called the dreams of a “unified Reich.” His delusions of grandeur,...