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The $239,958,219.15 Question
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Social Cyborgs
January 31, 2019
Participating in the network from across the uncanny valley, these artists seek to critique Instagram from the inside.
Becoming Unbecoming
How the role of First Lady diminishes strong and ambitious women.
HyperNovelization
January 30, 2019
Olga Slavnikova’s "The Man Who Couldn’t Die" and the post-Soviet reality deficit.
Gilding The Wall
January 29, 2019
On a Tuesday earlier this month, I walked out of jail and drove until my car ran out of gas and died a mile from my house in a crowded Boston intersection. This happened not for lack of access to fuel or money to buy it with—or even because I had failed to notice that the gas ...
Breaking the Coulter Curse
January 29, 2019
Ann Coulter hates unions. You might say it’s in her genes.
A Gender Study
January 28, 2019
A manipulative and self-important man is as ugly and generic as any Marriott.
Fresh Hell
January 25, 2019
Coming Out of My Closet, and I’ve Been Doing Just Fine
Chalk One Up for Teachers
January 25, 2019
How Los Angeles teachers won major concessions after a six-day strike.
Jeering White Boys
The smirk seen 'round the world tells us something about Trumpism.
In the Shadow of Lincoln Yards
January 23, 2019
A new $5 billion development threatens one of Chicago's most beloved independent music venues—and much more.
Wrestling with the Demo(n)s
As a new documentary makes clear, there is no democracy and never was. There is only struggle—here, now, always.