George Orwell was an ornery person, irritable and impatient, and he took an unholy pleasure in upbraiding his left-wing brethren. What would he say to the left now?
Joe Biden’s probable nomination is unlikely to satisfy those who want a revolution. But as a string of primaries has shown, they’re not the majority of Democrats.
The selves that constitute the poet Lawrence Joseph are particularly numerous and peculiarly unlikely: he’s a Catholic, a leftist, an Arab-American, and a lawyer.
Trump’s budget proposes deep cuts to social and environmental programs and increased military spending, prioritizing vanity projects over people’s welfare.
Defending racist and violent policing as the result of individual “bad apples” doesn’t just obscure larger systemic problems. It hinders the pursuit of justice.
A new, polyphonic collection with poems by more than a hundred Latinx writers responds to the vexed problem of identity with expansiveness, not reductionism.
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