To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient ...

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Editors ▪ June 12, 2025 Join Dissent at Book Culture on Thursday, July 10 at 7 p.m. for a discussion about Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today, a ...

Cornell University Press, 2020, 216 pp. One day a villager was walking by Akşehir Lake when he saw Nasreddin Hodja pouring a bowl of yogurt into the water. “What are you doing, Hodja?” the villager ...

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Editors ▪ June 4, 2025 As major climate disasters increase in frequency across the country, homeowners and renters are faced with new dilemmas about how to protect themselves and their ...

Journalist Sarah Jones joins hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell to discuss the myth of “Trump Country,” the pitfalls of reporting on rural America, and…the End Times. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler ...