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Published: July 20, 2021, 12:05 p.m.

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Hello!

This week: two pressing topics from the news and listener questions.

First, we talk about the political crises in Haiti and Cuba and questions of U.S. empire and intervention. Though military invasions have become less savory, on Monday, U.S. officials still informally dictated Haiti\\u2019s choice for interim president. We place the news in geographic and historical context and draw connections to East Asia. Also: the hallowed place of the Haitian and Cuban revolutions for leftists (and academics), the logic of anti-imperialist and \\u201cdecolonial\\u201d politics (think Latin American tankie-ism), and how best to understand the Caribbean today.

Second, we discuss the spiraling numbers of Covid infections and hospitalizations among unvaccinated people in the U.S., especially in Black and Latino communities. How do these numbers square with mainstream media coverage of the unvaccinated? Is race the best framing? How bad will things get in the next few months?\\xa0

Not to mention how horribly things are going in the Global South, thanks to vaccine apartheid.\\xa0

Finally, some listener questions:

* Brinda asks for reading recommendations. (Andy\\u2019s is a follow-up on the CRT episode: a feature on Chris Rufo in The New Yorker).\\xa0

* Daffodilly asks about \\u201cthe academy\\u201d and \\u201cacademia.\\u201d

* And So Long, Lillian asks about intra-Asian (inter-Asian?) matrimony.\\xa0(There are some studies!)

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