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WATCH: A limp parade, and a rising resistance

Ruth Ben-Ghiat and I discuss the weekend’s dueling gatherings

14 hrs ago •

Anand Giridharadas

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47:32

ESSAY: A bad parade is a good sign

A society can either invent things like jazz and kimchi tacos or stage awe-inspiring lockstep parades. It cannot do both

17 hrs ago •

Anand Giridharadas

Fables of the Reconstruction

Author Zaakir Tameez on what the 19th-century struggle to abolish slavery teaches us about the future of the fight for civil rights.

Jun 15 •

Courage is the most potent contagion

Omar El Akkad's beautiful, powerful words reveal and explain horrors.

Jun 15 •

No kings, rage against the machines, care and dread

Weekend Reads for June 14, 2025

Jun 14 •

In L.A., an attempt to “end politics”

The real story of the assault on Senator Alex Padilla is Secretary Kristi Noem’s talk of regime change

Jun 13 •

A senator's warning before his arrest

On Sen. Alex Padilla's detention by the Trump regime — and the speech that put him in the crosshairs

Jun 12 •

WATCH: Los Angeles is America

Anat Shenker-Osorio and the ACLU’s Andrés Dae Keun Kwon, on the Los Angeles protests, why California is the real America, and what solidarity looks like…

Jun 12 •

Anand Giridharadas

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Anat Shenker-Osorio

50:53

Lights. Camera. Occupation

California fights back against Donald Trump's manufactured show of force

Jun 12 •

WATCH: History, complicity, and how to write the next chapter

Our second Book Club discussion of Omar El Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"

Jun 11 •

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57:53

Stories of empire

In our second live discussion of "One Day," let's come together around the power of language to shape us

Jun 11 •

WATCH: Can we talk about Biden?

As Trump presses his authoritarian project, is it not the time to talk about Democrats and Biden? Or precisely the time?

Jun 10 •

Anand Giridharadas

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49:57

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