Among the passengers crammed into the rattling white van traversing Lebanon’s northern edge were a pair of young Syrian refugees. As the van slowed to a stop at the first…
The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. #YoSoy132 Aguascalientes, 7 July 2012. Photo courtesy of the author.Today we cannot…
Disney World may be an American institution, but with one-day adult tickets costing on average between $105 and $201 (depending on ticket and time of year), millions of American families are…
Mikhail Gorbachev takes part on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, November 2014. Bernd…
Last year millennials finally surpassed baby boomers as the largest generation in America. Now, as Generation Y ages, they’ve become more than one-third of the U.S. workforce. Soon they’ll be the…
Photographs of the victims are displayed at the Kafr Qassem Massacre Museum. Dylan Collins. All rights reserved.If your Palestinian neighbors and friends seem slightly on edge, please excuse them. The…
Earlier this summer, Ryan O’Callaghan, a former offensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots, came out as gay. O’Callaghan said he knew he was gay for much…
Activists protest against Presidential order to eliminate the Deferred Action for Children Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy. New York, September 2017. Photo: Albin Lohr-Jones/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reservedSalvadorans with TPS…
Obscure words are par for the course at the Scripps National Spelling Bee—and this year’s national competition, taking place this week just outside Washington, D.C., is no different. Nearly 300…
A street in Diyarbakır. Author's photo collection. The situation of the Kurds in a drastically changing Middle East has received little attention in academia and less in the media despite their growing…
The internet is filled with pockets of loveliness and brief totems to the wondrous bounty of the human spirit, plus a few good dogs — largely corgis. There are also dark…
Oil-well fires burn near the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, 2016. Photo: Planet Labs.This essay was originally published in e-flux journal no. 84 (September 2017) under the title ‘What We Are Fighting For’…