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Like the previous Vietnam generation of baby boomers, US university students are waking up to the atrocities their government commits or helps its client states to commit around the world.

Chinese infrastructure builders are leaving and US spies, soldiers and corporate America are returning with the new government in Buenos Aires.

On this episode of American Prestige, Michael G. Vann on Indonesia's new president-elect.

In early December 1938, the critic and editor Malcolm Cowley set out to compile a form of end-of-year list for The New Republic. He and the other editors wrote to their friends seeking to compile a list of recent “Books That Changed Our Minds.” They didn’t debate what it would mean to call their choices the best. The books simply needed to have made them think in a new way. Eighty-five years later, we’re attempting something similar with our list of books of the year....

Reporter Vincent Bevins on his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and The Missing Revolution.

A new book by former L.A. Times correspondent Vincent Bevins takes a close look at the 2010s, a decade of mass protest — and why they mostly failed.

A new book by former L.A. Times correspondent Vincent Bevins takes a close look at the 2010s, a decade of mass protest — and why they mostly failed.

Vincent Bevins’ new book, “If We Burn,” asks why a decade of mass mobilizations led to the “opposite” of what the streets demanded.

Journalist Vincent Bevins grapples with grassroots movements from Egypt to Brazil to Hong Kong.

Sri Lanka continues to swing wildly between being a ‘Donor Darling’ flooded with foreign ‘aid’ and ‘advisors’ on the one hand, to a ‘bankrupt’ pariah or