Reading Robert Frost in a newly independent South Sudan.

The long read: My friends and I wanted to tell the story of Cuban life, without interference. Before long, I was being isolated, monitored and interrogated

How Hungary rid itself of Viktor Orbán.

“It feels like the world has forgotten about us,” said artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who recently served four years of his sentence in a maximum-security Cuban prison.

Michael CrowPresident, Arizona State UniversityApril 12, 2025 President Crow: I have been focused over the last two days on a successful fundraising effort to support a student performance by ASU’s DB...

In the summer of 2011, I went to a protest against economic injustice in New York City. I've gone to a lot of demonstrations over the decades, and this one was as forgettable as most of them are--they...

Katrina Armstrong agreed to serve as interim president on August 14, 2024.

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The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.

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Join us on Inauguration Day for parallel online readings directed by Milo Rau of Elfriede Jelinek’s ENDSIEG: THE SECOND COMING—a Response to the Re-election of Donald Trump.

Questing for some understanding of delusion, I am reading Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote, having just finished two personal accounts (Salman Rushdie’s Knife and Philip Lançon’s Disturbance, by survivors of attacks by deluded killers). I’m thinking about delusion, the destruction of a body politic and a body itself. Here’s Don Quixote, responding to Sancho’s questioning of the knight-errant’s claim to being “enchanted,” and thus unable to resist imprisonment:“I know and believe that I am enchanted