In our deep dive into Stephen Miller, we report that Miller praised Coolidge's 1924 restrictions even though an unpublished history of Miller's ancestry authored by his grandmother explicitly talked about how it closed the door on people like Miller's relatives: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.

There have been many exposes of the far-right Hindu American Foundation this year. Here is another. Bottom lines: - Hindutva is an American problem - Far-right hate harms us all - Specific groups promote this - Hindus in the U.S. deserve better tribune.com.pk/story/258426...

Try wrapping your mind around this map released earlier this year by the United Nations Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, describing and delineating restrictions of roads and land access for Palestinians in the oPT, sans Gaza.

Leqaa Kordia has been held in ICE detention for nearly ten months.

My book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism, will be out March 17, 2026 It is now available for pre-order from @princetonupress.bsky.social and other online booksellers! cart.press.princeton.edu/checkout/car... press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Congratulations to Sarah! Sarah R. Bin Tyeer, *The Well-Tempered Reader: The Legitimization of Adab in the Arabic Literary Tradition* California University Press, 2026

Back in June, I tagged along with the legendary Mira Nair for an afternoon canvass in Richmond Hill. Production delays (by yours truly) kept this from coming out during the election, but we wanted to share this one with you for the holidays. I hope you enjoy it - this is one of my favorites.

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla passed away a couple of days ago, and Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai – a wonderful documentary about him – seems to now be available to watch for free on YouTube. It's a powerful portrait of stillness, and well worth a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM6q...

ICYMI — Adnan Khan’s harrowing report on how the illicit plastic waste trade is crushing refugee workers in Turkey. Dirty Work—The Hidden Machinery and Human Toll of Europe’s Broken Recycling Trade

"A group including Big Tech players and major universities fought against the RAISE Act, which got a last-minute rewrite"

People may not realize that this is the birth place of Ethnic Studies and the first Black Studies program. SFSU is a school of historic significance.

2024 was pretty bad and 2025 managed to top that easily and so, I am not eager to welcome 2026, yet... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rg1...

Cleanliness is usually described as a matter of civic sense: people, it is said, must behave better, litter less and keep public spaces clean. But civic behaviour is shaped by the society they live in. scroll.in/article/1089... Mohit Nirmender ✍️

“The art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion, couldn’t metabolize Palestine. It still can’t.” David Velasco @equatormag.bsky.social — www.equator.org/articles/how...

I am excited for my Spring "Early Modern South Asia" class bc I have re-engineered it a lot. (first time teaching myself!)

I am especially proud of the Dec 2025 issue of *CSSAAME* @dukepress.bsky.social with the special issue "Technologies of War* (edited by Madiha Tahir and Adrien Zakar) and the Kitabkhana on Hafsa Kanjwal's *Colonizing Kashmiri* (2024) <--free to read!

It's finally here! Remember that weird group of Emirati influencers you keep seeing online. Well I've done a VERY deep dive, & the story is even weirder than you can imagine! "Amjad Taha, Muslim Brotherhood Maxxing & the Emirati #Dysinfluencer Factory" open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...

"How were the horrors of Gaza possible? Quite simply, because those who tried to stop or expose them quickly discovered that our political systems were committed to the genocide and there simply was no way to give voice or power to a different politics.”

For the New Statesman, I wrote about this thing we call capitalism. By way of Borges and Braudel, I review the mappings and musings in Sven Beckert’s and Branko Milanovic’s brilliant new books. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

lovely lokanandi speaking about his love of books and bookstores—an anti-colonial bookseller in berlin

I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%. Once they win elections, it's already too late. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-research...

Violent protests in Bangladesh after pro-democracy figure dies in hospital

huge and true! *Robert Moses: Single Minded Genius* (1989) cc @romanmars.bsky.social

America First, at America’s first public university.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

NEW: Palestine 36 and the Hard Facts of History Lori Allen reviews Annemarie Jacir's latest film, a sweeping epic centered on the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. buff.ly/KZfKXKr

well this makes sense given that universities exist for the benefit of wealthy decrepit pedophiles & every other part of the community is allowed to be there solely on their sufferance

The @contingent-mag.bsky.social ’s book list 2025 is now published and it includes e.g. @mtoiv.bsky.social ’s ”Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka” and Brian Harnetty’s ”Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives” to name 2/39 🤩

The world’s data centers are being built in very hot places. We mapped them New: https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/

The New School was founded by Columbia University professors who wanted a university run by the faculty with minimal administration. For over 100 years it has been a unique institution with progressive values and incredible students and faculty from Ai Weiwei to Hannah Arendt. We are devastated.

Two immediate takeaways: 1) yes, the level of repression at Columbia is extraordinary, and these stories are only the tip of the iceberg; and 2) we are blessed to have students such as the journalists who are covering this and those who continue to organize www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/12...

Folks, like the juror blame the woman facing the violence for 'not leaving' even it's shown multiple times in the doc that Diddy physically threatened when she attempted to It shows the normalization of DV in our spaces and how we support abusers no matter what. open.substack.com/pub/yashicad...

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

It’s gonna be a lit spring for media analysis books. Also looking forward to How to Sell a Genocide The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza by @ahjohnson.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/contributor/...

A new dataset, stored at a repository housed at Sciences Po's Centre for International Studies (CERI) and published in India by The Caravan, sheds light on the global network of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), identifying over 2,500 organisations tied to the RSS.”

This is one of the most important documents produced this year. At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance. I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.

The Baffler is saddened to hear of the passing of Asad Haider. Back in 2020, he wrote for us on the history and philosophy of the crisis.

"I spent hours crafting messages meant to make strangers feel special, wanted, even loved." Asia, M. G. (2025) "The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy" data-workers.org/michael/

For our final transition video, I really scraped the barrel for goofy transitions i hadnt made work yet. So please help us meet our goal because im out of runway here (and yeah, to build an affordable NYC too i guess)

An exuberant launch for Kareem Khubchandani's brilliant *Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties* (2025) brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/lesson...

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

This is an astonishing, must-read, and chilling piece. "The old admonition of authoritarian regimes everywhere — If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to be afraid of — has no meaning in Gaza." nymag.com/intelligence...

They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2

today’s walk

Professor Hany Babu is granted bail after spending 1,955 days in jail for a made-up crime that he hasn't been convicted of (and won't be because the Indian govt planted fake evidence to accuse him of it). Let's see if he actually makes it out and for how long. maktoobmedia.com/india/delhi-...

"Radical Histories of Decolonization," a new special issue of Radical History Review (153) is now available. View the TOC and read "Decolonization Now," the editors' introduction, made freely available: buff.ly/TipOXAq Buy this issue: buff.ly/UMGEDEr