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The Deeper History of Empire and White Supremacy Behind Anti-Asian Racism

Dec 17 2021
By Moon-Ho Jung, author of Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security StateIn the wake of very visible hate crimes against Asian Americans this past year, President Joe Biden vowed to combat racism to make America live up to its reputed ideals
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What Policing in Iraq Reveals About the Failed U.S. Reconstruction Efforts

Nov 11 2021
By Jesse Wozniak, author of Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing StateDuring my first research trip to the Lead Police Training Academy on the outskirts of Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, I observed a class of recruits on their last day of training finally get their highly antici
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Watch: Why is the U.S. Always at War?

Oct 13 2020
The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In his new book, The United States of Wa
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