It’s time to get over our surprise and get on with this difficult work.
Mateen killed 49 people, wounding 53 others, in a mass shooting at the Pulse gay bar in Orlando, Florida, before being killed in a shootout with local police. But who was he?
Internationally, we should all be concerned by how the unifying discourse of the 99% occludes important differences amongst political, economic, and socially disaffected peoples that the OWS brand can never fully capture.
A year ago this month, 'the 99%' changed the discourse of US politics. But did this call to action for 'American Revolution’ issued by the Occupy Wall Street movement change politics itself? In this first of two multimedia articles, filmmaker and academic Cynthia Weber, introduces us to a range of
An American professor of international relations who is also a documentary film-maker invites us to share in her unique pursuit of answers to the following question: How can we remember September 11, 2001 as fully as we can, including those things about it we would rather forget? For it is this mo
The legalisation of same sex marriage in New York and Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas’s announcement that he is an undocumented immigrant raise questions of the nature and limits of the American ‘melting pot’. Who is a ‘meltable American?’
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Shortly after 11 September 2001, George Bush urged US citizens to watch Mohsen Makhmalbafs film, Kandahar, set in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Why? Cynthia Weber investigates the presidents and the
