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Split City
March 30, 2023
In the race to replace Chicago's mayor Lori Lightfoot, is a consensus candidate even possible?
Last Resorts
March 29, 2023
In Canada, assisted dying has been offered to disabled people in lieu of adequate care.
Positively BEGGING You
March 28, 2023
Bad Democrats are ignoring this email!
Fresh Hell
March 24, 2023
First, Do No Arm
Take a walk, legs! See you later, head! Sayonara, belly button! After millennia in obscurity, arms are finally getting their due as the unsung body part: the torso’s twin protuberances are now the subject of an ode in Vogue by Ada Calhoun. Calhoun reports ...
After the War on Cancer
March 23, 2023
Modern cancer treatment brings less stigma but higher cost.
The Stranger Within
The exile in the language of the colonizer.
Honduran Hydra
March 21, 2023
The fight against open-pit mining in Honduras.
Fresh Hell
March 17, 2023
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
After the fanatical persecution of Oliver Cromwell, the great famine of 1845, and Margaret Thatcher’s horrific treatment of the Sinn Féin martyrs, Ireland has finally won a reprieve: the archdioces of Philidelphia, Trenton, and Wilmington have ...
The Ghost at the Feast
March 16, 2023
On Susan Taubes, Jacob Taubes, and the limits of literary biography.
Red Scared
March 15, 2023
We went to the Victims of Communism Museum so you don’t have to.
Morbid Symptoms
March 14, 2023
On the monstrous archetypes of British political critique.