Sublime

When the virus hit, a popular line began circulating that 2020 was the end of identity politics, that COVID-19 was the great equalizer that didn’t see race or class. People of color knew better. And the opposite turned out to be true as the news confirmed. Black, Muslim, Latin, and Asian communities were the hardest hit, and women (who make up the

what I’m suggesting is that we take a protective stance toward ourselves, each other, and whatever is left of what makes us human—including

He’s allowing a slur for Muslims that’s the equivalent of the N-word—kalar—and defending its use, even in posts calling for people’s blood. He’s removing more posts by civil society groups and peace activists than government and anti-Muslim accounts. Worried he might be in cahoots with the junta, we raise this with the content team, who tell us the

If Perkins, the Progressive turned New Dealer, spent her life addressing problems left behind by Greeley’s Civil War generation—corporate power, exploited labor, political corruption, poverty—Rustin spent his battling injustices that the New Deal generation didn’t address: racism, segregation, and the threat of militarism to world peace. No one in

empowering humankind, the advancement

Such trends compelled me to stand my ground. I worked to expose Said’s Orientalism screed, noting that the first experts on the Middle East came from Germany and Hungary, neither of which ever colonized the region.