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The crackdown on pro-Palestine speech.

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

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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

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We’ve no shortage of proof.

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Current issue, no. 78

Sans Merci

Rebecca Nathanson

The French far right co-opts feminism

Better Living Through Disaster

Caitlin L. Chandler

Prepping for the end of the world at the edge of civilization

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J.W. McCormack

Why is the mayor of Knox County a professional wrestler?

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A superlative Gen X treatment on what may be the ultimate Gen X band.

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On Heiny Srour’s revolutionary women.

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Territorial Pissing

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Trump has fundamentally overturned the American immigration regime.

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Ideology Ruled Her Camera

Nihal El Aasar

On Heiny Srour’s revolutionary women.

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Territorial Pissing

Joshua Craze

Trump has fundamentally overturned the American immigration regime.

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Will nuclear energy power the AI boom?

April 28

Testing Grounds

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Sex screenings are back in vogue on the right

April 25

Heteropessimism of the Intellect

Arielle Isack

In Sophie Kemp’s fiction, gender roles are a prison

April 23

The C.U.P. Runneth Over

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Busch Light’s retrograde vision of masculinity

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The Space Between

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A conversation with Sarah Aziza

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A Place of Wounds

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Henry James goes home again

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