Progressive Radio Network

Prisoner of war

It was on Aug. 12, 1949, that the nations of the world, with Nazi atrocities still in mind, updated what are known as the Geneva Accords.…
A talk with archivist and cultural historian Megan Prelinger about twentieth-century technology, modernist art, and her fascinating new book Inside the Machine: Art and Invention…
[This essay has been adapted from chapters 1 and 2 of Susan Southard’s new book, Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, with the kind permission of Viking.] Korean…
The NY Times on Monday ran a lengthy piece ("One Woman's Mission to Free Laos from Millions of Unexploded Bombs") on Channapha Khamvongas, a 42-year-old Laotian-American woman…
[The following is slightly adapted from chapters two and three of Grégoire Chamayou’s new book, A Theory of the Drone, with special thanks to his publisher, the New…