Tag: Nationalism

  • Sri Lanka’s democratic revolution

    Sri Lanka’s democratic revolution

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    Rohini Hensman
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    Months of protests brought down Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa last month. Scholar-activist Rohini Hensman situates this victory as one step in a protracted struggle for democracy in Sri Lanka.

  • The shooter in Laguna Woods

    The shooter in Laguna Woods

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    Travis S.
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    Travis S explains that the recent shooting of six people at a Taiwanese church was motivated by hostilities within the diaspora—hostilities fueled by four decades of U.S.-backed dictatorship in Taiwan and the more-recent promotion of virulent ethnonationalism on the mainland.