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Project Ludicrous

Francis Northwood

April 29, 2025

Powering the AI boom won’t be easy.

Testing Grounds

Michael Waters

April 28, 2025

Sex screenings provide an easy mechanism of social control.

The Space Between

Abdelrahman ElGendy

April 22, 2025

Sarah Aziza grapples with her Palestinian family’s history of exile.

Deterrence Theory

Belén Fernández

April 16, 2025

So much for “keeping Americans safe.”

De-Extinction Rebellion

Leo Kim

April 15, 2025

Extinction isn’t something that can be manipulated at will.

Probably Oblivion

Emma Claire Foley

April 10, 2025

Each day brings a new opportunity for destruction.

Burn Down the House

Christopher Ketcham

April 08, 2025

MAGA’s plan to destroy American democracy.

Invisible Crisis

Michael Friedrich

April 03, 2025

We are vastly undercounting the country’s homeless population.

House of the Rising Hun

Alexander Wells

March 31, 2025

Issue no. 78

“We must reconquer the past.”

Schumer’s Warning

David Klion

March 31, 2025

Self-congratulation and willful ignorance in Chuck Schumer’s book on antisemitism.

The Limits of Rights

Jake Romm

March 28, 2025

The term “human rights” doesn’t really do the work that we think it does.

Where the Vile Things Are

Jeffrey Arlo Brown

March 27, 2025

The slow-motion pillaging of Ukraine's largest nature reserve.