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Book cover detail for "When Rebels Win" by Kai Thaler (Cornell University Press, 2025).

Why some rebel victories build states — and others break them

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Smartphones, Social Media and the Information Superhighway

Stars in Their Eyes
Esther Lezra explores misrepresentations and misinterpretations of black freedom

The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others
Mark Juergensmeyer discusses President Obama's plan for dealing with ISiS

A Rock and a Hard Place

For the Good of the Community

Doctors for a New World

Equal-Opportunity Internet

The Lost Dignity of Labor

From the Margins to the Center
Harold Marcuse

'A Brutal Life That Lasted Years and Years'
Irina Vladi Wender

'We Inherit the Trauma and It Shapes Us'

'We Would Be Separated, Quite Likely Forever'
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