Under the Australian Sun
February 14, 2019
Australia is heating up in ways that are no longer part of the normal pattern.
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Turn Back!
February 13, 2019
Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA sets its sights on Brexit-era Britain
Under the Boot
February 12, 2019
For all his talk of leaving the right, Max Boot hasn’t wandered too far from home.
Fresh Hell
February 08, 2019
The Anarchic Kool-Aid Acid Test
Art Killed Me
February 07, 2019
Velvet Buzzsaw’s superfluous gallery of grotesques.
Grift the Pain Away
February 07, 2019
How a so-called medical medium exploits our broken healthcare system to profit off the chronically ill.
A Conflict of Interest
February 05, 2019
The idea that microcredit will be a panacea for the problem of poverty has been revealed as fantasy.
Capitalism’s New Clothes
February 04, 2019
Shoshana Zuboff's new book on "surveillance capitalism" emphasizes the former at the expense of the latter.
Fresh Hell
February 01, 2019
The $239,958,219.15 Question
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.