The critic, journalist, and essayist has two new books just out—one a meditation on two anti-terrorist trials and what they tell us about our post-9/11 world (A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny...
August 31 marks what President Obama has heralded as the end of our combat mission in Iraq. But as the last of U.S. combat troops leave, they’ll be replaced by as many as 7,000 private contractors charged with guarding...
Ongoing flooding has affected up to 20 million people and devastated Pakistan’s infrastructure. Relief has been slow to arrive, complicated by the political situation even as US drone attacks continue in the...
The first Vietnamese artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Dinh Q. Le’s work references history and war, particularly the Vietnam War. His show, titled “The Farmer and the...
The sinking earlier this year of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship, has exacerbated already tense relations between North and South Korea, played a role in the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama,...
An important recent decision by the US Supreme Court could have significant implications for free speech and constitutional rights. In Holder versus Humanitarian Law Project, the court decided that speech could be...
Over the past few months, a wave of high-profile wildcat strikes has been attracting attention in Chinese and Western media. Worker unrest at companies including Foxconn, which makes parts for Apple iPods, and the...
Last week an estimated 15,000 people convened in Detroit for the US Social Forum, only the second such gathering to take place in this country. With over 1,000 workshops, fifty People's Movement Assemblies and...
Nearly 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India in the past ten years, but this fact is ignored by much of the mainstream Indian media. A new documentary follows veteran journalist P.Sainath as he puts faces and...
For Pakistani Americans, will May 1, 2010 mark a turning point—for the worse? Are we in a post-Faisal Shahzad era? In the wake of the attempted Times Square bombing, already the government has talked about “severe...
