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Age of Onset

Matthew Shen Goodman

January 08, 2024

Issue no. 72

We’ve never been so old. There were 95,000 centenarians in 1990 and more than 450,000 in 2015, according to estimates from the United Nations. Global life expectancy doubled from 1920 to 2020; the pandemic saw a dip that was horrifying but comparatively minor in the scope of a ...

Universal Failure

Charles McFarlane

January 04, 2024

The long afterlife of Universal Camouflage Pattern.

Go Straight to Jail

Jack Norton,  Lydia Pelot-Hobbs,  Judah Schept

January 03, 2024

The jail is increasingly the catchall “solution” to every social problem.

Low, Dishonest Days

The Baffler

December 29, 2023

It’s been over two months since Israel launched a genocidal incursion against the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Hamas’s surprise attack of October 7. In that time, hospitals, churches, schools, refugee camps, mosques, and residential blocks have been bombed with abandon, ...

Space Junk

Martin Dolan

December 27, 2023

Microsoft is trying to build the biggest video games in the business—but are they any good?

Impolite Society

Josef Burton

December 20, 2023

Structural violence demands a certain politeness.

No Side to Fall In

Mary Turfah

December 15, 2023

In Gaza, hospitals aren’t hospitals unless proven otherwise.

The Afterlife of a Coup

Sammy Feldblum

December 13, 2023

Fifty years of Chilean life in the films of Patricio Guzmán.

Dreck of the Irish

Jack Sheehan

December 11, 2023

The far right is on the rise in Ireland.

Gazan Workers in Limbo

Mariam Barghouti

December 04, 2023

Laborers who had their work permits revoked after October 7 remain stranded.

Queers Without Money

Amber Hollibaugh,  Lisa Duggan

December 01, 2023

In America, the only appropriate desires are those that rest comfortably atop plenty of money.

Israel’s Permit Regime

Nevin Kallepalli

November 30, 2023

Israel is increasing its reliance on foreign workers—laying the groundwork for a nation without Palestinians.