Not only a tool to justify U.S. and Israeli intervention, the label is increasingly dividing Iranian society from within.

Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

A new common sense has emerged regarding the perils of predictive algorithms. As the groundbreaking work of scholars like Safiya Noble, Cathy O’Neil, Virginia Eubanks, and Ruha Benjamin has shown, big ...

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As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, ...

Philip Metres has been written by a number of books, including Sand Opera (2015) and the forthcoming The Sound of Listening: The Poetry of Refuge and Resistance (2018). He is a professor of English ...

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Eleanor Hildebrandt received a 2015–16 J. William Fulbright grant to work as an English Teaching Assistant in Nepal. Her work is not vetted or endorsed by the Fulbright Commission nor the U.S.