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Canceling Equity

Rafia Zakaria

June 30, 2023

Who's afraid of promoting "equity" in public health?

The President is Arrested

Zoë Hu

June 29, 2023

Trump's shock troops gather in Miami, to see and be seen.

It’s Pat

Max Rivlin-Nadler

June 28, 2023

How Pat Lynch remade the NYPD in his image.

Lorenza Mazzetti’s Kingdom for Children

Ian Wang

June 27, 2023

The writer-director rejected the bourgeois adult world.

Daniel in the Lion’s Den

Erik Baker

June 17, 2023

Daniel Ellsberg never let anyone off the hook easily—including himself.

Brains on Drugs

John Semley

June 14, 2023

How consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.

Queer History Now!

Ben Miller

June 07, 2023

A truly queer history means that all must be rendered strange.

Grieving Machines

Eli Frankel

June 06, 2023

AI is coming for the obituary pages.

An Indiana Inquisition

Rafia Zakaria

June 02, 2023

If you’re a doctor who performs a legal abortion, the right will find a way to come after you.

Female Foundering

Sarah Arkebauer

June 01, 2023

The girlbossification of failure.

Rippling Trumpism

Tom Hawking

May 24, 2023

Trumpism washes up on the distant shores of Australia.

Trump the Defamer

Rafia Zakaria

May 19, 2023

Trump is found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.