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Why we should care: Primo Levi’s poem, from Survival in Auschwitz
You who live safeIn your warm houses,You who find on returning in the evening,Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is a man Who works in the mud Who does not know peace Who…
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The Manichean Candidate
We’re told that Donald Trump tapped into the anti-establishment anger of a “declining middle class.” But it’s a peculiar world in which people who are supposed to have class interests — that is to say,…
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A plea for November
Donald Trump’s victory in the GOP race is utterly appalling; no reasonable person can doubt it. Trump is a bigot. His campaign began with a attack on Mexican immigrants, one that was pushed into the…
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Vote “NO” on the xenophobic initiative — «Pour le renvoi effectif des étrangers criminels (initiative de mise en œuvre)»
Categories: racismThis repulsive piece of propaganda arrived in my postbox today. It is a part of a rising tide of ugly nationalisms: the Front National in France, Pegida in Germany, and on and on. Switzerland is…
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To Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States: Prosecute!
Categories: tortureDear Mr. Attorney General: I am an American citizen living in Canada; I am a professor of history at a small liberal arts college in British Columbia. I have now read a good chunk of…
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Disarm the police; rebuild the polity
Police in the U.S. kill between 400 and 1000 people every year; meanwhile, the number of what the FBI calls “Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed” averaged 51.1 per year from from 2004-2013. The number of people…