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The Toll of Toil
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 ...

Queer Memories in Beijing
September 02, 2021
On a summer night in June 1996, queer men and women crammed into the Half and Half, a narrow bar nestled on a back street of Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood, for what was, ostensibly, a birthday party. Plainclothes cops were in attendance, too. They had followed Wu Chunsheng, ...