No Way Home, Episode One: Life and Death
Two Afghans try to flee Kabul after the Taliban takeover. Only one makes it out.
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“Obligation to Remember”: Author Spencer Ackerman on the Casualties of the War on Terror
In his new book, Ackerman makes the case that the Trump years were the logical conclusion of a multidecade borderless war without end.
Secretive CBP Counterterrorism Teams Interrogated 180,000 U.S. Citizens Over Two-Year Period
Records from an ongoing FOIA lawsuit shed new light on the operations of CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Teams.
USAID Faces Mounting Pressure to Remove Latest Trump Appointee With History of Islamophobic Remarks
“It is clear that anti-Muslim bigotry has a home in the Trump administration.”
This Is Not Fine: Why Video of an Ultranationalist Frenzy in Jerusalem Is So Unsettling
Israel's defenders tried to contain the damage from video of religious Zionists celebrating the conquest of Jerusalem as flames leapt above the Aqsa mosque compound.
How Sri Preston Kulkarni’s Run for Congress Got Tangled Up in Indian Politics
Kulkarni is facing pressure to return donations from members of U.S. Hindu nationalist groups that are connected to anti-Muslim activity in India.
Canadian Journalists Fear Retaliation for Criticizing Coverage of Israeli Attacks on Gaza
An open letter on media standards in Canada, where some style guides ban the word “Palestine,” garnered over 2,000 signatures.
U.S. Website Seizures Targeting Iran Cast Wide Net Over Dissident and Religious Broadcasters
The U.S. dragnet censored purported Iranian-linked disinformation sites with little explanation — and little room for accountability.
First the Muslim Ban, Now Coronavirus — Iranian Families Separated by One Trump Order After Another
Trump’s latest immigration freeze puts families who have been waiting years to reunite in further limbo.
Universal Enemy: Scholar Darryl Li on the Relationship Between Transnational Jihadists and U.S. Empire
In this bonus episode, Li discusses his recent book, “The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity.”