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Great Power Competitions

Sammy Feldblum

November 18, 2021

When ping-pong redirected diplomacy between the U.S. and China

Lord of the Flies

Max Pearl

November 17, 2021

Science fiction and settler colonialism collide in Rafael Bernal's Mexico.

Keeping up with the Buttigiegs

Matthew Zarenkiewicz

November 15, 2021

On the campaign trail with Mayor Pete.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

November 12, 2021

My Big Fat Getty Wedding As nominally the most powerful woman in the nation that is singularly responsible for cumulatively pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other, Nancy Pelosi recognizes the moral responsibility of the United States to, after decades of ...

Give Peace a Chance

Joshua Craze

November 11, 2021

Séverine Autesserre’s apologia for international peacebuilding.

This Land is Their Land

Jordan G. Teicher

November 09, 2021

The billionaire class holds the planet for ransom

Left Behind

Lydia Kiesling

November 02, 2021

The Build Back Better Act makes families a bargaining chip.

The Florida Projects

Saritha Ramakrishna

October 26, 2021

There’s no shortage of places to call home, if only for a little while, in Florida’s Osceola County—plenty of sumptuous McMansions await vacationers on secular pilgrimage to the Magic Kingdom, and Jimmy Buffett-themed timeshares enable visitors to buy into their own ...

Taxis Take a Stand

Luis Feliz Leon

October 14, 2021

In New York City, cabbies are protesting 24/7 for debt relief.

Hey, Kids, Who Screwed the Climate?

Wen Stephenson

October 13, 2021

The fight against fossil fuels needs intergenerational solidarity.

Molecules and Vectors

Asad Haider

October 06, 2021

On Noel Ignatiev’s radical, lifelong commitments.

The Toll of Toil

Rhoda Feng

October 05, 2021

On August 29, as United States’ twenty-year war in Afghanistan lurched to a close, the Pentagon fired a Hellfire missile from a drone to strike suspected Islamic State militants. The missile used in the airstrike, an R9X, has been touted variously for its ability to pinpoint ...