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Steelhenge: The Human and Ecological Cost of the Border Wall
Thirty feet tall in places, often built with law waivers and unlimited budgets, the US–Mexico border wall has returned with a vengeance — and with…
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Can the Military‑Industrial Beast Be Tamed?
The United States is undergoing a massive reallocation of public resources toward the military.
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Egypt’s Double Game: Arming a Sanctioned General While Mediating
Egypt’s regional posture has become increasingly contradictory. In recent months Cairo has deepened military cooperation with Sudan’s Transitional…
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Dalai Lama’s Succession: Tibet’s Religious Crisis and India’s Choice
Days before Penpa Tsering’s swearing-in as Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration on May 27, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in India used X to…
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Micro-Militarism and the Iran War's Threat to American Hegemony
When great powers lose momentum, they sometimes respond not with patient reform but with dramatic, short-sighted military gestures.
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Cochabamba's Water War: How Citizens Defeated Privatization
In 2000, residents of Cochabamba, Bolivia, took on a multinational corporation, defied their government, opposed the Washington Consensus and won.
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When Politics Becomes Hyperreal: Collapse, Slogans, and AI's Role
This is the third installment of a conversation that began as an effort to understand a striking deterioration in international relations.
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Reclaiming Shared Narrative in an AI-Driven Hyperreal Politics
In the previous column I began a conversation with an AI chatbot about the absurd, self-destructive logic now dominating large parts of global politics.
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When Politics Goes Hyperreal: Media, Power, and Democratic Loss
The political drama unfolding in many Western capitals has reached a point where it feels more like a surreal script than conventional statecraft: decisions…
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Defending Asylum in an Unwelcoming America
In late March I sat in the Supreme Court gallery for the first time. For three decades I’ve done street-level anti-poverty and solidarity work: vigils…
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Why Trump’s Beijing Visit Makes Coexistence Inevitable
For decades Washington framed China as a challenger that could be pressured into submission while American primacy endured. That narrative is breaking down.
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When Fiction Becomes Reality: Preparing for Doomsday
Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy Dr. Strangelove imagined an absurd, nightmarish logic: a Doomsday Machine so lethal it guaranteed the end of civilization.