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After a Tragedy, the Ohio State Fair Endures

Hanif Abdurraqib

August 18, 2017

The Heart of It All

The fair—at the city, county, or state level—is one of the markers of summer, even long, difficult summers, and even if the fairs themselves occur in the fall. I have been to many: A small town fair in Virginia, the kind you see in nostalgia-drenched films where people in ...

Toppling Monuments to White Supremacy

Sarah Jaffe

August 18, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...

Dunce’s App

Audrey Watters

August 17, 2017

Behavior management apps are, in many ways, a culmination of B.F. Skinner's vision for “teaching machines.”

Fire and Fury

Corey Pein

August 17, 2017

News from Nowhere

Corey Pein receives a report from Jason Wilson in Charlottesville, and speaks to Tim Shorrock about North Korea.

Control-Alt-Fail

Chris Lehmann

August 16, 2017

The Jaundiced Eyeball

“Both sides do it” is a species of magical thinking perpetrated by those with a deep institutional investment in upholding status-quo power relations.

The Commons Are Rumbling

Maximillian Alvarez,  Ben Becker,  Jodi Dean,  Karina Garcia

August 16, 2017

The Poverty of Theory

Most people in their communities already recognize both the problem and the solution.

A Letter to my Liberal Friends

Laurie Penny

August 15, 2017

War of Nerves

It should not have taken this long. Right now, there are a lot of well-meaning people, people who desperately want to believe in their own goodness, who only opened their eyes to the reality of modern fascism when the world woke up to Nurembergian images of screaming white boys ...

Goodbye, Pepe

Angela Nagle

August 15, 2017

The alt-right era my book was about—the anonymous online trolling culture, the constant evasions and ironic styles—is over.

Mind Out of Time

Siddhartha Deb

August 15, 2017

Contraband

The work of Urdu writer Naiyer Masud depicts a world of fading aristocrats and the drifting poor.

Thwarting a “United Right” in Charlottesville

Sarah Jaffe

August 14, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...

New People, Old Words

Niela Orr

August 14, 2017

Bread and Circuses

Danzy Senna’s hilarious New People honors the canon of American works that take on multiracial identity.

The Long Battle for Medicaid

Sarah Jaffe

August 11, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

A conversation with Sarah Christopherson