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Reinventing the Wheel

Jacob Silverman

October 05, 2017

You could grow old waiting for an enlightened billionaire to appear.

Gun Anarchy and the Unfree State

Saul Cornell

October 03, 2017

Our debates over gun ownership typically revolve instead around a potent set of myths that cloud our historical understanding.

What Happened?

Brandy Jensen

October 03, 2017

"Nasty Women," a new collection of feminist writing, has one eye on the future and one foot in the election.

Underwriters of the World, Ideate!

Jason Linkins

October 02, 2017

Report from the Washington Ideas Forum. What dilemma exists that cannot be gently confronted by a platitude-spouting meritocracy?

Zucktown, USA

Julianne Tveten

September 27, 2017

American tech giants are now building their own company towns.

Together for What?

David Roth

September 26, 2017

Ben Roethlisberger couldn’t sleep Sunday night, and on Monday afternoon the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback decided that he could remain silent no longer. Donald Trump had leaned blearily into an ad-lib encouraging NFL owners to take a firm hand with players who kneel in ...

Unions in Space

Katherine Cross

September 26, 2017

Tacoma is a thoughtful take on trade unionism that doesn’t cast it as a relic of a bygone age.

Yesterday’s Liberal

Siddhartha Deb

September 25, 2017

Is it the bad politics or the bad writing that makes Mark Lilla's new book so grating?

Stormbound

Sarah Gerard

September 22, 2017

Never in fifty years of living in the Sunshine State had they seen anything like Irma.

Swords Into Marketshare

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

September 21, 2017

What if we had an LGBT movement that centered on getting trans people—and everyone else—out of prison, instead of into the military?

An Uneven Disaster

Zachariah Webb

September 15, 2017

A Q&A with Ashley Dawson, author of "Extreme Cities."

Mark Lilla’s Comfort Zone

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

September 14, 2017

How liberal discourse flattens out the work of critical race analysis.