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The Unreality of Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone’
What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive?
What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive?
Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is devouring itself.
Fossils are quite common in this type of stone, but human-looking ones are not.
Pat Buchanan made white Republicans fear becoming a racial minority. Now Trump is reaping the benefits.
A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the brutal means by which the Dutch tried to retain power.
It does not accurately describe either the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of the Palestinians. (From 2023)
The whole truth took me decades to learn. (From 2019)
“To sense this world of waters known to the creatures of the sea we must shed our human perceptions of length and breadth and time and place, and enter vicariously into a universe of all-pervading water.” (From 1937)
The case has one important advantage the others don’t.
A new season of the How To series from The Atlantic