Avik Jain Chatlani

Avik Jain Chatlani

A historian by training, Avik Jain Chatlani is the author of This Country is No Longer Yours. He has taught in schools and prisons in Latin America and the United States.

9 posts
The revolution is tired: There’s no room for utopias when people scroll on so quickly
Imperialism

The revolution is tired: There’s no room for utopias when people scroll on so quickly

Revolutionary ideals once captured the imagination of Latin Americans. But in an era of modern cruelty, nobody believes anymore

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16 Min
By: Avik Jain Chatlani
In ‘Voices of Resistance,’ Palestinian women write to us from the end of the Earth
Imperialism

In ‘Voices of Resistance,’ Palestinian women write to us from the end of the Earth

The devastating anthology reminds us that despite our overwhelming grief, we won’t be alone forever

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6 Min
By: Avik Jain Chatlani
The end of language
Opinion

The end of language

The destruction of Gaza has taken place alongside the surge in AI, an industry that props up an empire of lies that constantly pushes mediocre, propagandistic content into a vast market that’s aching to receive its products

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10 Min
By: Avik Jain Chatlani
‘Who Killed My Family?’: An inquest into the violence of liberal chic
Opinion

‘Who Killed My Family?’: An inquest into the violence of liberal chic

There is an emptiness at the heart of cosmopolitanism, one where even daily videos of shredded children in Gaza are not enough to get liberal elites to stop their savagery

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10 Min
By: Avik Jain Chatlani
You can find America’s future in El Salvador
Imperialism

You can find America’s future in El Salvador

In right-wing Washington circles, Nayib Bukele is the hip, youngish, minority mask donned by Republicans in an effort to modernize and expand their movement

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6 Min
By: Avik Jain Chatlani
A slave society: America upholds its long history of subjugation
Immigration

A slave society: America upholds its long history of subjugation

Millions of unmoored and undocumented people are being punished at an accelerated pace for the crime of having enriched the wealthiest country on Earth

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7 Min
By: Avik Jain Chatlani
You dreamed of empire: The untaught history of Indigenous resistance
Imperialism

You dreamed of empire: The untaught history of Indigenous resistance

There is a lack of respect for the Indigenous past, present, and future, though we’re more than happy to grapple with the weaponization of past colonial injustices to ignore or cover up present-day crimes

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9 Min
By: Avik Jain Chatlani
What do you do with a genocidal society?
Imperialism

What do you do with a genocidal society?

There are societies that resist, and then there are the societies that destroy, inflict harm, invade

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15 Min
By: Avik Jain Chatlani
color photograph of an outdoor protest. people hold up the Palestinian flag and and signs that read "ceasefire now"
Imperialism

Kamala Harris and the erasure of Palestine

Before her rally in Detroit yesterday, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris told the Palestinian leaders of the Uncommitted National Movement, a group that mobilizes Americans to withhold their votes to protest the genocide, that she is open to a meeting to discuss an Israel arms embargo.  It was nothing more

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5 Min
By: Avik Jain Chatlani

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