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The Queer Other

Samuel Huneke

June 24, 2021

The West likes to fancy itself uniquely tolerant of queer people. Murderous violence against trans people may be on the rise in the United States and hate crimes against LGBT individuals in Germany may have increased 36 percent last year, but, we’re assured, it’s really ...

How It Feels

Riddhi Dastidar

June 22, 2021

A mutual aid movement emerges to fight the pandemic in India.

The Unwinnable War on Disease

Alex de Waal

June 21, 2021

Pandemics and the ecology of armed conflict.

What Does a Fact Look Like?

Adrian Nathan West

June 16, 2021

We may be our own deceivers

American Fables

David Klion

June 15, 2021

George Packer seeks refuge in political myth.

Escape from Little Island

Michael Friedrich

June 10, 2021

New York City welcomes the bad future of urban planning.

Late-Stage Fairytales

Matthew King

June 03, 2021

Against “How I Built This.”

Poems From Palestine

The Baffler

June 01, 2021

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The Cop Did It

Matt Hanson

May 26, 2021

Powerful citizens are usually above suspicion.

A Fierce and Violent Land

Sergio González Rodríguez

May 24, 2021

An excerpt from Sergio González Rodríguez’s “El hombre sin cabeza.”

New Problems, Old Ideas

Roman Gressier

May 20, 2021

Nayib Bukele dismantles El Salvador’s fledgling democracy.

In Fury We Trust

Joshua Gutterman Tranen

May 20, 2021

The popular origin story of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power has a mythic quality to it. In March 1987, the writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron cancelled her planned talk at the Lesbian and Gay Center in New York. To fill in, organizers tapped Larry Kramer, author of the ...