Spoiling for a Fight
December 07, 2021
American analysts wildly exaggerate the “Chinese Threat.”
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Passing for Racial Democracy
December 06, 2021
The complexities of the color line in the U.S. and Brazil.
Fresh Hell
December 03, 2021
All Wonderwall and No Play
Over the interminably long holiday weekend, as millions of well-intentioned Americans willingly entrapped themselves with the torturous deep-state conspiracy theories of relatives variously drunk on tryptophan and Facebook, sixty-one hapless Brits ...
No Country for Old Women
December 03, 2021
The British novelist Elizabeth Taylor was a master of awkward and complicated feelings.
The Tyranny of the Task
November 29, 2021
With “microwork,” good old-fashioned piecework gets a digital makeover.
Fun, Games, and Extractivism
November 24, 2021
Fossil fuels have a new recruitment strategy: Minecraft
Macho Macho Men
November 23, 2021
The queer history of pumping iron.
Fresh Hell
November 19, 2021
Build Back Better*
(*Terms, Conditions, and Exclusions May Apply)
Once upon a time, in the distant reaches of summer, Democrats unveiled a $3.5 trillion spending package that would, as we’ve long-since tired of rehashing, over the ensuing months be gradually shorn of its ...
Biden’s Kamala Problem
Vice President Harris is a stranger in a strange land.
Great Power Competitions
November 18, 2021
When ping-pong redirected diplomacy between the U.S. and China
Lord of the Flies
November 17, 2021
Science fiction and settler colonialism collide in Rafael Bernal's Mexico.
Bear Witness
November 16, 2021
Can an act of interspecies violence bridge the human/animal divide?