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  • The War On Weeds

    Pesticides and herbicides made from fossil fuels that are freely available to unwitting consumers poison our land, our bodies and life all around. Sarah Mafféïs for Noema Magazine ESSAYCLIMATE CRISIS BY LAURA J. MARTINMAY 14, 2024 FacebookTwitterEmail Laura J. Martin is an associate professor of environmental studies and faculty affiliate in history at Williams College. Her…

  • W.E.B. Dubois’s Magnificent Letter of Advice to His Teenage Daughter

    BY MARIA POPOVA Sociologist and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois (February 23, 1868–August 27, 1963) was the first African American person to receive a doctorate from Harvard — an achievement that both reflected and affirmed his faith in the life-changing power of education. So when his daughter Yolande — his only surviving child — was about…

  • Genocide Not a Famine

    Did you sing this as a kid. It explains below, where this song came from. This old man he played one He played nick nack on my drum With a nick nack paddy whack Give a dog a bone This old man came rolling home This old man he played two He played nick nack…

  • 12 years on, Dalit Survivors of Andhra Pradesh’s Laxmipeta Massacre Await Justice

    Suman Damera A protest march demanding justice for Dalits of Laxmipeta in Andhra Pradesh. Photo: Facebook. 13/Jun/2024 5 min read The bloody incident claimed the lives of five Dalit men and left over 40 people severely injured. The scale of violence unleashed in Laxmipeta was on par with Karamchedu (1985) and Tsunduru (1991) caste atrocities,…

  • The Making of Arundhati Roy

    Siddhartha Deb 10 hours ago 5 min read ‘I saw how the media can just excavate you and leave a shell behind. And I was lucky to learn from that. So when my turn came, the barricades were up.’ Arundhati Roy at the Press Club of India on October 4. Photo: The Wire Excerpted with…

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