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Aug 27, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Arvin Alaigh
A replay of 1968 it wasn’t. While months of pro-Palestine protests stoked fear among the chattering classes that this year’s DNC in Chicago would be derailed by the same tumult as fifty-six years ago, that did not come to pass.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Patrick Iber |Arvin Alaigh |Bob Master |Michael Kazin
Kamala Can Win
Hope will be an essential resource for her campaign. At her first rally, she succeeded in providing it.
▪ July 24, 2024
This is the bottom line: she has a chance to win. In just two and a half weeks, both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have visited Wisconsin, an essential state for any Democrat to reach an Electoral College majority.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Madeleine Wattenbarger |Rafia Zakaria |Arvin Alaigh
The sun breached the horizon just moments before Fabiola arrived at the airport in Torreón, a city of around seven hundred thousand in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, to pick up her passengers for the day. Two young women from Mexico City, fresh off the hour-and-a-half flight from the capital, stowed their suitcases in the trunk of Fabiola’s beige sedan.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
publicbooks.org | Arvin Alaigh
Daniel Harnsberger is among the more famous wrestlers on the American independent circuit. In church halls, civic centers, and high school gymnasiums across the Appalachian Valley, Harnsberger wrestles under the moniker “The Progressive Liberal.” In mid-2017, a handful of prominent media outlets covered his story, framed as a curious, even whimsical development.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Arvin Alaigh
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Arvin Alaigh
Leopard in Rashtrapati Bhavan during Modi 3.0 swearing-in? This is what forest department saidNEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the oath for his third term on Sunday at a lavish ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, which saw the …
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Baynard Woods |Niela Orr |Arvin Alaigh
I was sitting in my apartment, annoyed and paranoid, as the phone rang for the tenth time that night. Word had reached my circle of stoners that I was holding a quarter pound of pot, and I had become their all-hours dispensary of dry Mexican brick weed. This was, I supposed, the life of the dealer. I hadn’t foreseen that a side hustle was going to work its way into my otherwise deadbeat, layabout lifestyle when a wiry construction worker/weed dealer with Ric Flair hair offered to front me a QP.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Sydney Calkin |Thalia Charles |Rafia Zakaria |Arvin Alaigh
The people in this story are all anonymous. They must remain so because they are doing illegal things with abortion pills—at least according to police, prosecutors, and government agencies. Their opinion is the one that matters now, two years after Roe v. Wade was struck down, triggering a cascade of state-level abortion bans and restrictions. As abortion pills cross state and federal borders, they also cross conceptual boundaries, shifting in status between legal and illegal.
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May 22, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Sanjay Ruparelia |Matthew Sitman |Sam Adler-Bell |Arvin Alaigh
The BJP’s Drive for Hegemony Another electoral victory would enable Narendra Modi’s party to inscribe de facto Hindu supremacy into law. ▪ Spring 2024 In 2014, the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party captured national power in the world’s largest democracy.
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May 22, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Arvin Alaigh |Hannah Zeavin |Samuel R. Bagenstos |Samuel Moyn
The Partisan Psychiatrist Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric work was the most practical manifestation of his larger ambition to restore agency to alienated subjects. ▪ Spring 2024 The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanonby Adam ShatzFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024, 464 pp. Frantz Fanon’s stature swelled in the late 1950s as he crisscrossed the nascent Third World, winning support for the Algerian nationalist cause.
