A few chilling post-election scenarios
Consider the consequences of a Biden victory in November 2024. Trump will almost certainly deny the victory, and the fact that his loyalists are armed to the teeth and number…
Raghav Kaushik
An Interview About Oregon’s Measure 110, a brief victory for Drug Decriminalization
Morgan Godvin is an internationally recognized expert on the topic of drugs and justice. She was a leading activist behind Oregon’s drug decriminalization law - Measure 110 - that passed…
The Culturalization of Caste in India: An Interview with Balmurli Natrajan
by Balmurli Natrajan and Raghav Kaushik Dr. Balmurli Natrajan is Professor of Anthropology at William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA. He works at the intersections of the material and…
Discussing America’s role in the Syrian civil war: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky
by Noam Chomsky and Raghav Kaushik This interview with world-renowned scholar and leading dissident Noam Chomsky has two goals. The primary goal is to understand America’s role in one of…
Revisiting the Propaganda Model in the age of Social Media
A Review of Andrey Mir’s “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers.” While there are several books analyzing the impact of social media on society, Andrey Mir’s book “Postjournalism and…
Denialism at an Industrial Scale: An Interview on Intellectual Property Laws around Drugs and Vaccines
Writing in his book “Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World”, Mike Davis describes the Anti-Charitable Contributions Act of 1877, introduced in India when…
On Community Control of Police: An interview with M Adams
The nationwide uprising against police brutality has completely changed the conversation around policing and safety. The demand to defund police which would have been deemed unthinkable in the mainstream not…
On Coronavirus and the Anti-Police-Brutality Uprising
By Arun Gupta and Raghav Kaushik An investigative reporter, Arun Gupta has been consistently ahead of the news. In September 2011, he founded The Occupy Wall Street Journal with the…
Lessons for the environmental movement from Gandhi
Gandhi is not well-known for his views on the environment. Indeed, in his vast output, there is little explicit mention of the environment. Yet, in Gandhi’s views, one finds a…
Trump’s Syria Attack Poses New Conundrums For The Anti-War Movement
There is widespread criticism of Trump’s Syria attack on the left, and many of the reasons stated are spot on: The attack was surely not motivated by humanitarian considerations, contrary…
Syria And The Antiwar Movement
While everyone agrees that Syria is a humanitarian disaster, there has been a complete fracturing of the left when it comes to analyzing the conflict. Unfortunately, the debates have been…
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