Dreaming With Our Hands
In the sudden absence of basic supplies, people have found the means of survival in each other, and in the resources and land at their disposal.
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Corruption
“We are taking back our dignity!”
On December 19, protests against the KRG erupted in Suleimaniya and surrounding towns. But the strategy of the demonstrators as well as the reaction of the authorities has everyone at a bit of a loss.
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Inside Yemen: Poverty, Power, and Arms
The country was poor before, and right now there’s no room and they’re just being squeezed even more with the attacks that are being waged.
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Iñaki and Me
Iñaki need not worry about being thrown in prison; he need not fear pursuit: the Spanish justice system does not persecute his ethnicity. He currently lives in a villa on Lake Geneva. His bank account is full.
On the Road with a Fed-up Trucker
“It’s a rebellion, but that’s for the time being. We’ve been promised a crackdown in April, and those aren’t empty threats.”
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The Kids Are Alright
“I’m glad so many people showed up to the rally. People realize that corruption is an evil, that something has to change. I hope the teenagers who went to the rally will keep involved in civic activism.”
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Democracy Has Ended in Brazil
“We’ve entered a new state of exception through an illegal impeachment process, and I don’t have very much hope that anything’s going to change by 2018. The only left candidate who has a chance of winning is Lula, and they’re going to try to arrest him or kill him before 2018.”
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Politics in Turkey: the Elites and the Streets
The more allies Erdoğan loses in his state apparatus, the more he has to rely on radical groups on the street to secure his power.
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The Awful Purgatory of Authoritarian Non-Consolidation
“I’m not even sure this can be called a system, because there aren’t very clear institutionalized rules for participation. It’s not just a lack of democratic channels of representation. The regime doesn’t have a clear social coalition of groups that have a vested interest in its presence or in its policies.”
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Exposing the Chicago Police’s Cover-Up Culture
The code of silence, this narrative control that the department exercises, includes the press. The press, as a general matter, publishes the police blotter.
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