On politics and government in a fascist America| The New Republic
Monica Macansantos is a 2024-2025 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas, and was recently named a 2025 Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellow at the Carson McCullers Center in Columbus, Georgia. She is the author of the essay collection, Returning to My Father's Kitchen (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books, May 2025) and the story collection, Love and Other Rituals (Grattan Street Press, 2022).| Listen & Be Heard Network
After Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made a fool of herself by defining habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country," Justin Amash, the libertarian former congressman, posted an apt quotation on X:| Free Association
A revealing look at state coercion in Germany, political hypocrisy, and a mayor’s unexpected admission revealing the true nature of the FRG.| Syria News
People, cultures and landscapes vary greatly around the world, but totalitarianism’s black heart is basically the same everywhere. And so it is in long-suffering Myanmar – or Burma – where for most of the last 35 years a military dictatorship has frustrated democracy, crushed dissent, murdered opponents and sought to snuff out the very will to resist. In one of C2C’s occasional forays into global affairs, Patrick Keeney travels to the Thailand-Myanmar frontier to visit a place where l...| C2C Journal
Almost three years on from the coup that overthrew the first truly democratic government the country had seen since the 1960’s Myanmar and its ethnic minoriti| Eastern Angle
