"When Sukhwinder Singh finally awoke, he learned that his passage to the land of opportunity had cost him an arm and both legs." Makepeace Sitlhou investigates the rise in asylum claims from Indians fleeing persecution from Modi's BJP @inthesetimesmag.bsky.socialinthesetimes.com/article/sikh...
The last thing Sukhwinder Singh remembered was crossing through knee-deep water near the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Arizona. When he finally awoke, he learned that his passage to the land of opportuni...
"One is reminded of George Orwell’s observation that, in times when political language is 'largely the defense of the indefensible,' it 'has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging & sheer cloudy vagueness.'" Alberto Toscano @inthesetimesmag.bsky.socialinthesetimes.com/article/dnc-...
The disjunction between our political language and political reality reveals the vacuum of thought in the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
"To reduce the cause of these events to disinformation and hooliganism is an exercise in historical amnesia and whitewashing. The racism in the streets was seeded by the racism of the state." Important new piece from Alberto Toscano @inthesetimesmag.bsky.socialinthesetimes.com/article/uk-i...
The racism in the streets was seeded by the racism of the state.
"Not only is what many on the Right call counter-revolution in the cards, but it's become the guiding philosophy of conservatism’s intellectual vanguard." Read the always-sharp @mattpolprof.bsky.social@inthesetimesmag.bsky.socialinthesetimes.com/article/righ...
The Right’s perennial call for “order” doesn’t necessarily mean affirming the existing order.
"Even as Trump tries to distance himself from Project 2025, an exclusionary future is being built by the Right"—one in which many of us "simply don't belong." Read the brilliant @riccardiswartz.bsky.social@inthesetimesmag.bsky.socialinthesetimes.com/article/proj...
Trump, Vance and the hateful horizons of “trad futurism.”
In 2016, Trump picked Pence to reassure the evangelicals. In 2024, he picked Vance to reassure the NatCon-ers. Who are they? Some links follow:
The bullets remain lodged within Lee’s body—a reminder of what he sees as governmental complicity in the attempt on his life. “It’s a reminder of what the U.S. is doing to activists around the world,” Lee says. “And which side they are supporting.” inthesetimes.com/article/bran...