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I think of the time I saw a banker repossessing a home drop a woman’s house keys into the garbage. Her kid had made the key ring. It clanged when it hit the metal base. A few months later, I read a newspaper article about a banker’s murder, and part of me understood. Ants flee the stomping boot of power. Until, one day, they don’
Amaryllis Fox • Life Undercover
Efforts to delimit a reserve for the Yanomami – who inhabited the west of the state and southern Venezuela – had begun in the late 1970s, stimulated in part by the pioneering reporting of the British journalist Norman Lewis. The Yanomami had suffered badly from Amazon expansionism. In the early 1970s, when the government decided to build a road alo
... See moreRichard Lapper • Beef, Bible and bullets: Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro
Hunt was a Spanish-American War veteran and former lieutenant governor of Bontoc, where he had become a trusted friend of the Igorrotes. The United States took control of the Philippines from Spain as part of the terms of the 1898 Treaty of Paris ending the war between the two nations. The U.S. also received stewardship of Puerto Rico and Guam and
... See moreSmithsonian Magazine • The Igorrote Tribe Traveled the World for Show And Made These Two Men Rich
The bases were there by agreement—Washington offered protection and usually funds in exchange for the right to plant its outposts. But for the people who lived next to them, it could feel like colonialism. French leftists complained of U.S. “occupiers” and grumbled about “coca-colonization.” In base-riddled postwar Panama, thousands marched carryin
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
Several scholars have argued controversially that despite the well-attested history of the powerful eighth-century Uyghur Empire (744-840) and the Uyghur Qoco Kingdom (85o-iz5o), both the ethnonym "Uyghur" and its associated identity are…
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
And so, as the pandemic shut down cities and states, half the country looked to science and the other half looked to Trump. Americans didn’t look to one another because there was no longer any trust between them. Into this void government by the people collapsed, leaving the unelected elites and the elected demagogue to battle it out. The struggle
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
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Charles Reich • The Greening of America
