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Anis Shivani

Anis Shivani’s most recent books are Karachi Raj: A Novel, Whatever Speaks on Behalf of Hashish: Poems, and Soraya: Sonnets (forthcoming June 2016). Both Sides of the Divide: Observing the Sublime and the Mundane in Contemporary American Writing will be out later this year.

Peter Cvjetanovic (R) along with Neo Nazis, Alt-Right, and White Supremacists encircle and chant at counter protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., USA on August 11, 2017. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Charlottesville, COVID, Trump and free speech: How white supremacy entered the mainstream

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Taliban fighters from the Fateh Zwak unit storm into the Kabul International Airport, wielding American supplied weapons, equipment and uniforms after the United States Military have completed their withdrawal, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)

America in 2021: From the end of empire to the prospect of a new civil war

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Bernie Sanders 2020: So many things went right — and then it all went wrong

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Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden (Getty Images/Salon)

Bernie Sanders has one shot: He must make the case that Joe Biden is not “electable”

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The world is on fire, but Twitter carries on (Getty Images/Twitter/Salon)

A decade closer to apocalypse: Looking back at the mayhem of the 2010s

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a "Keep America Great" Campaign Rally at American Airlines Center on October 17, 2019 in Dallas, Texas. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Trump will win again, easily: Liberals simply don’t understand what he represents

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Democratic presidential hopeful Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren gestures during the fourth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by The New York Times and CNN at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio on October 15, 2019. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Questions for Elizabeth Warren: Now that you’re the frontrunner, we need to talk

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From left, Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT , former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. gesture to answer a question Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Democrats retreat from reality: Understanding last week’s depressing debate

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during the New Hampshire state Democratic Party convention, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, in Manchester, NH. (Getty Stock/ AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Dear Bernie: Here’s how you can still win — but the chance may soon slip away

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(Getty/Paul Ratje)

Wake up, America: The dream is dead. Not just for “Dreamers,” but for all of us

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Loyal White Knights Grand Dragon Will Quigg shouts to protestors during a "White Pride" rally (AP/Mike Stewart)

Origins of the alt-right, Part 2: White supremacy is deeply enmeshed in our culture

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Pat Buchanan; Richard Spencer; David Duke (AP/Getty/Salon)

What are the origins of the alt-right? Hint: It’s not as new as you think

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(AP/Paul Sancya)

A radical new approach to the immigration “problem”: Full human rights

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Paul McCartney (AP)

Paul is still dead! Fake news that shook the world, 50 years later

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Barack Obama; Hillary Clinton (Getty/Steffi Loos/AP/Cliff Owen)

A skeptical liberal’s guide to the “alt-left”: And it’s not who you think

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(AP/Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

Time to give up on identity politics: It’s dragging the progressive agenda down

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Torture and silence: A shattering exhibit of photos by Andres Serrano confronts what we don’t talk about

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President Donald Trump and Armed Forces Day in Nuremberg, 1935 (Getty Images/Hulton Archive/ Drew Angerer)

Trump and the Nazis: Our troll-in-chief has a deep affinity with the alt-right — and with their ancestors

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George W. Bush; Donald Trump (AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Evan Vucci)

How we got from George W. Bush to Donald Trump: Liberals had more to do with it than we’d like to think

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(AP/Paul Sancya)

A radical new approach to the immigration “problem”: Beyond left and right, Trumpism and neoliberalism — Part two

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(AP/Paul Sancya)

A radical new approach to the immigration “problem”: Beyond left and right, Trumpism and neoliberalism — Part one

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Brad Pitt in "War Machine"; Medics carrying a wounded US soldier to Kandahar Hospital Role, August 23, 2011. (Netflix/Getty/Johannes Eisele/Salon)

“War Machine” reveals the mentality behind America’s longest war — and the maddest of them all

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(AP/John Bazemore)

Understanding contemporary white supremacy, part 2: How do we deal with this new form of an old phenomenon?

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(AP/John Flavell)

Understanding contemporary white supremacy: Is the alt-right really something new?

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