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An Asset Grows in Brooklyn

John Kazior

May 14, 2020

On New York’s efforts to quantify and exploit the “eco” dollars out of every living cedar, oak, ash, and pine.

Springtime for Empire

Tom Stevenson

May 12, 2020

Noah Feldman’s history of the Arab Spring is willfully blind to American imperialism.

In the Claws of a Police State

Laurel Flores Fantauzzo

May 06, 2020

Duterte militarizes his response to the coronavirus.

As the World Churns

Peter Manseau

May 06, 2020

The backstory behind the Land O'Lakes “butter maiden.”

City of Rights

Jose Benjamin Montaño

May 05, 2020

An indigenous community's struggle for housing in Mexico City

The Farmers

Eta Demby

May 04, 2020

The leaves blanketing the ground are worn skeletally thin like small lace shrouds. This layer of decomposed matter that insulated plant and microbial life throughout the winter has begun to thaw and sweat, releasing a heady stench in the forest and fields where baby nettles, ...

Cash Cows

Joshua Specht

May 04, 2020

Meatpacking and the specter of Coronapolitics.

Total Cuomo Show

Jess McAllen

April 30, 2020

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is going to run. Cara, his daughter, thinks she can beat him, but he’ll be out there, say, five miles a day: “fast like lightning.” Cuomo should start running—for president! That’s what certain pundits and livestream devotees are saying ...

Free Up the Prisoners

Anis Shivani

April 28, 2020

Immigration activists should call for the abolition of imprisonment of migrants.

The Waiting Game

Lizzie Tribone

April 27, 2020

Long lines at polling sites and benefits offices are no accident.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

April 24, 2020

Big Bleach Energy 

Of Migrants, Muslims, and Other Non-People

Namit Arora

April 22, 2020

The coronavirus lays bare India's shameful inequalities.