Mara Cavallaro

Oct 31, 2024 | clereviewofbooks.com | Mara Cavallaro

Last March, I was at my airport gate in San Diego when I noticed a man staring at an upside-down boarding pass. He smoothed it, then stood up, disoriented, paced around in brown work boots, and sat down again next to me, the letters still rotated the other way. He was anxious, or he was lost—but I couldn’t tell which, and didn’t know why. And then I saw him message someone on WhatsApp, in Portuguese. O senhor é brasileiro? I asked. Sir, are you Brazilian?

Oct 31, 2023 | thenation.com | Mara Cavallaro |Adolph Reed Jr. |Jeanne Theoharis |Laura Flanders

Activism / StudentNation / The board has banned “critical race theory” and decried ethnic studies, but a local group of Black mothers has a plan. “We’re going to use what’s available to us—the right we have as citizens to recall.”Ad PolicyThis story is part of a series on the 2023 election by StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism.

Oct 28, 2023 | thenation.com | Adolph Reed Jr. |Caleb Brennan |Spencer Ackerman |Mara Cavallaro

Class Notes / Today’s conversation around inequality traces back to the compromises made in the late civil rights movement. Ad PolicyThis article appears in the November 13/20, 2023 issue, with the headline “The Race Trade-Off”The landmark civil rights victories of the mid-1960s—the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968—profoundly altered the character and trajectory of Black American political life.

Oct 9, 2023 | thenation.com | Mohammed R Mhawish |Jeet Heer |Nikhil Goyal |Mara Cavallaro

World / This war is happening for one reason: the prolonged suffering and occupation that Palestinians have endured for seven decades. Ad PolicyGAZA CITY—The sound of war is all around me as I write this. For the third consecutive day, the Israeli military has continued its bombardment on the Gaza Strip in response to the surprise attack by Hamas and other Palestinian groups on southern Israel last Saturday morning. These attacks have involved artillery, naval, and aerial strikes.

Oct 4, 2023 | thenation.com | Peter Kornbluh |Mara Cavallaro |Dharna Noor |Jeet Heer

World / Everyone knows how Nixon and Kissinger paved Pinochet’s path to power. The story of Harry Barnes, who played a crucial role in the Chilean dictator’s exit, is much less well known. Ad PolicyThe recent 50th anniversary of the military coup in Chile brought renewed international attention to the many villains of the US intervention to overthrow Chile’s constitutional government—chief among them Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, and CIA director Richard Helms.