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Poets and translators on their work.

“Gaza does not resemble herself in Ramadan.”

In Gaza, the libraries are gone. We’ve all seen it on our phones, even as censorship continuously prevails. The schools are gone too. What survives, what has always survived, is the oral archive. T…

Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minne…

Workers can no longer count on the Department of Labor.

If they’re trying to eliminate witnesses, they cannot eliminate us all

A 21-year-old protester says he is now blind in his left eye after being hit by an immigration agent with a nonlethal round at close range on Friday in Santa Ana.

ALAA ALQAISI <br> We stepped out with our eyes uncovered. / Gaza kept looking through them— / green tanks asleep on roofs, a stubborn gull, / water heavy with scales at dawn. // Nothing in us chose th...

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The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and …

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“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi

ALT: a man wearing a hat and a red shirt says they are who we thought they were !