NYT Mag: Suzy Hansen on Turkey’s purge of intellectuals
Some 6,000 academics have lost their positions and in some cases their freedoms.
The Guardian: Shannon Sims on Texas’ female field hands
Undocumented migrants in Texas are even more vulnerable to exploitation when they are female.
Foreign Policy: Neri Zilber on Israeli generals in revolt
A group of former security officials have one common goal: defeating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in upcoming elections.
Columbia Journalism Review: Suzy Hansen on Turkey’s dying free press
The media has consolidated in the hands of one very loyal family.
The Nation: Robbie Corey-Boulet on the US role in Liberia’s queer activism
It's changing things in Liberia, sometimes in unintended ways.
NYT: Pramila Jayapal on reproductive choice
The congresswoman and former fellow discusses her decision to have an abortion.
David Binder dies
The prolific New York Times correspondent and former ICWA fellow spent decades covering the Cold War and its aftermath.
Jeff Race hides Pentagon Papers
This week in 1971, The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers, a classified Defense Department history of US political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. It revealed that the government had been lying to the American people about the war for years. The publication also established that the government cannot engage
The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on fragmentation in Europe
From Germany, EU politics in the wake of European Parliament elections.