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Deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller speaks to the media, Sept. 5, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

MAGA's war on woke is centuries old

Andrew O'Hehir
Activists protest President Donald Trump's military action in Venezuela on Jan. 6, 2026 in Pasadena, California. (Frederic J. BROWN / AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA wants to be a colonial power

Sophia Tesfaye
Thief stealing precious crown in a museum (Tera Vector/Getty Images)

Heists don't hit the way they used to

Andi Zeisler
March on Washington | Black Live Matter Protest | Mass demonstration against the Vietnam war (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Vietnam to Gaza: A collapse of morality

Norman Solomon
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Bad Bunny at the Dior fashion show during Paris Fashion Week Menswear Spring/Summer 2025 held at Val de Grace on June 21, 2024 in Paris, France. (Swan Gallet/WWD via Getty Images)

Bad Bunny's album rejects colonialism

Nardos Haile
Colonization of distant planet (Getty Images/gremlin)

Astronomers warn against colonialism

Mary-Jane Rubenstein - The Conversation
Temple Of Kukulkan El Castillo pyramid, Chichen Itza Mayan ruins, Yucatan, Mexico. (Marco Bottigelli)

Upending the virgin girl sacrifice trope

Rae Hodge
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix)

Airbender's conflicted racial evolution

Kelly Pau
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"The Last of Us" Cordyceps zombie (HBO)

How did the zombie become so white?

Juliana Lamy
Iceberg melting in Disko Bay in Greenland (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

European colonialism called out by UN

Joseph Lee - Grist
Tuk (Trinity Bliss) in "Avatar: The Way Of Water." (Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios)

How not to make Indigenous movies

Jason Asenap - Grist
Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

African nations tap into oil wealth

Lylla Younes - Grist
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Tenoch Huerta Mejía as Namor in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" (Eli Adé/Marvel Studios)

Wakanda Forever celebrates lost cultures

Julian C. Chambliss - The Conversation
North America, USA, Nevada, Caliente, Basin and Range National Monument, Heizer's City Earth Art Sculpture. (Bernard Friel/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

A monument to violence

Tristan Ahtone - Grist
The author (left) with his father and son, on a visit to his native village in Sudan, circa 2000. (Courtesy of Mohammad Ali Salih)

The British built my elementary school

Mohammad Ali Salih
Kansas City Chiefs players celebrate scoring a touchdown (David Eulitt/Getty Images)

Cultural taxidermy, not appropriation

Tim Thompson
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Illustration of two Picts, supposedly covered in body paint or tattoos, circa 300 BC (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The history of tattoos and colonialism

Allison Hawn - The Conversation
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Grove Press)

Colonial fetishizing in "The Committed"

April Yee
Kong in "Godzilla vs. Kong" (Warner Bros. Pictures/ Legendary Pictures)

Godzilla vs. Kong recalls colonial fears

Priscilla Jolly - The Conversation
Australia - America connection (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Australasians migrated to America

Matthew Rozsa
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Donald Trump and Woodrow Wilson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Past failures set up today's uprisings

Elizabeth Thompson - The Conversation
Forrest Galante films a crocodile in June 2016. (Mark Romanov & Forrest Galante / Barcroft Images / Getty Images)

Colonial science lives on

Andrew J Wight - Undark
(Walt Disney Studios)

How “Frozen 2” is like “Watchmen”

Hanh Nguyen
Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest," Act I, scene ii Prospero, Miranda and Iris - "The Tempest," Act IV, Scene I, Thomas Stothard, 1755-1834, British (Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"The Tempest," colonialism & resistance

Paul Yachnin, Hannah Korell - The Conversation
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