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Venus in Transit
Short fiction by Kyra Simone.
The Long Crisis on Rikers Island
May 12, 2022
How New York City lost control of its most infamous jail complex.
A Violent Enterprise
May 11, 2022
British colonialism casts a long shadow over modern Nigeria.
Planet Bloomberg
May 10, 2022
Examining the Bloomberg philanthropic machine.
War by Another Name
May 09, 2022
Sanctions achieve little politically, while bringing great harm to civilians.
Fresh Hell
May 06, 2022
Back to the Future
On Monday evening, a draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade leaked to the press, leading perennially aggrieved conservatives to celebrate the imminent, altogether assured success of a decades-long campaign to strip women of ...
Rich Moms, Poor Moms
With Samantha’s power and Melinda’s money, poor women will be saved.
Working Landscapes
May 05, 2022
Barry Hines’s pastoral fiction offers an antidote to the British country house novel.
We Decide Our Own Fate
May 04, 2022
Two very different rallies for reproductive justice in New York.
Lost in the Supermarket
May 04, 2022
Browsing the literature of the grocery store
Nothin’ but the Rent
May 04, 2022
Has the dominance of rentier wealth led us into a new phase of capitalism?