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Ukraine once possessed the world’s third-largest stash of nuclear weapons. Many Ukrainians wish they still had them. In 1994, through what became known as the “Trilateral Process,” Kiev traded those ...
Carry Smith wrote her PhD thesis on the Voting Rights Act and challenges to the right to vote in Georgia. Now dig this: Smith, the expert on challenges to voting rights, lost her vote because a ...
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We start GREEP Zoom #203 with a gorgeous poem from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN, enhanced by our meeting on BEETHOVEN’S birthday. We then, with a shout-out from MYLA RESON, visit the horrendous case of ...
September 14, 2024 ...
I welcome in the new year with a sense of abstract helplessness, as the headlines continue to bring us dead children, bombed hospitals, torture, rape and, of course, ever more “self-defense” ...
January 23, 2025 Advertisement ...
Antisemitism is wrong—there’s no debate about that. By the same token, Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism are equally dangerous. Conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism is not only ...
Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the night of April 15, 1967, waiting for a train back to ...
The eminent Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus in a biography of his illustrious father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agrippa famously wrote “Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque ...