The Art of Propaganda
April 14, 2022
Gran Fury produced some of ACT UP’s most iconic images. Were they art?
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We Got a Great Big Convoy
April 13, 2022
On trucker protests, then and now.
Crucifixes of Beit Sahour
The serenity I knowresides in my bones.I learned this through the most submissive actions.In the hand that greets,the foot that stands,and the shoulder that carries.Tell it like a storyor an anecdoteor a tragedy,it doesn’t matter.The story maker never becomes a strangerand ...
Strangers in our Midst
April 12, 2022
How Western governments debar and criminalize populations from countries they have invaded and exploited.
Fresh Hell
April 08, 2022
Daddy Starbucks
Howard Schultz, back for a third tour as the chief executive of Starbucks, this time to save the nation’s preeminent purveyor of sugared jet fuel from its employees—or “partners,” as the company misleadingly calls them—appeared at a corporate town ...
Weak at the Knees
April 07, 2022
“Ahed’s Knee” has little to say about the gravest crimes of the state it sets out to criticize.
The Automation Myth
April 06, 2022
To what degree can we blame automation for deindustrialization and class decomposition?
Romania Mexicalli
A strange and forgotten chapter in the history of left internationalism.
Silver Screen Sphinxes
April 04, 2022
How Greta Garbo and Buster Keaton invented celebrity privacy.
Fresh Hell
April 01, 2022
Semiotics of the Slap
Last Sunday evening, Hollywood’s Best and Brightest—swaddled in Versace, dripping in diamonds—gathered once more in the Dolby Theatre to memorialize the bloated, festering corpse of cinema. In hopes of livening up the solemnities, Oscar statuettes ...
A Year in the Face
Short fiction by Nathan Dragon
