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Whaling Upwards

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Sick, Sad World

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The life cycle of diseases depend on the political order of things.

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Treacherous Passage

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A microcosm of imperial hypocrisy and lethal inequality, the Darién Gap is the world.

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January 29, 2025

A Ceasefire Is Not Enough

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This period of taking stock is not just for Palestinians. It’s a reckoning for all of us.

January 21, 2025

Biden’s Final Humiliation

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The mass killing in Gaza is the one aspect of Biden’s legacy that can’t be erased.

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Incendiary Kites

Will Harrison

We’ve no shortage of proof.

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The Failure of Liberal Zionism

David Klion

Israel has behaved exactly as its harshest critics predicted.

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Current issue, no. 77

Eastern Promises

Dylan Levi King

In a Tokyo of tourists, the citizens have become strangers

Bang the World

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Passport Bros and the manosphere

Doctors Without Politics

Mary Turfah

What can medical workers do to stop genocide?

From the Archives

What comes after McConnellism?

In the Kingdom of Mitch

Dave Denison

March 2019

Why bother with mass appeal, when you’re rebuilding the ancien régime?

Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich

Corey Pein

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Who Gets to Be a Therapist?

Jess McAllen

On the thin line between gatekeeping and discrimination.

March 5

Hello, Brave New World

Janna Shaftan

It’s too late for you and I to be designer babies, but there are options.

March 4

Feminist Fascisms

Grace Byron

A conversation with Sophie Lewis.

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Hello, Brave New World

Janna Shaftan

It’s too late for you and I to be designer babies, but there are options.

March 4

Feminist Fascisms

Grace Byron

A conversation with Sophie Lewis.

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High Infidelity

Aaron Timms

Against the steady creep of AI into cinema

February 27

Cruel to Your School

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Trump’s war on public education

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One Elite, Two Elites, Red Elite, Blue Elite

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The decoupling of urban and rural America

February 25

Revenge of the Courtier

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On Curzio Malaparte, shit-stirrer

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The Tip of Russia’s Spear

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When Wagner came to Libya

February 20

Perfecting the Art of Pedantry

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Augusto Monterroso’s acrobatic minimalism

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Flowers and Their Meanings

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“‘A yellow rose means infidelity and disloyalty. My heart burns is cactus.’”

February 21

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That beach is dead girls.

February 7

Jack in the Country

Daniel Lefferts

“I fell very, very far.”

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