Social Justice Tourism
April 30, 2021
A tech travelogue set in rural China obfuscates material conditions
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Lush Life
April 29, 2021
Thulani Davis's poetry conjures a lost era of jazz.
Mutant Meter Maids
April 28, 2021
On LA parking and the corporate takeover of municipal functions.
Abiy Ahmed’s Counterrevolution
April 26, 2021
The Tigray conflict is a struggle over over the idea of Ethiopia.
Fresh Hell
April 23, 2021
Future-Facing and Inclusive!
Now for the Backlash
The GOP wants to crack down on protests against police brutality.
The Museum Shoots Twice
April 22, 2021
The museum is a failed technology.
In Three Years We Can Quit Chicken Sexing
April 22, 2021
ANOTHER ROUND
If you can accept Mads Mikkelsen as a depressed high school history teacher in the suburbs, maybe you will also believe that his beautiful doctor wife (Maria Bonnevie) would take him back after he makes drinking on the job the guiding principle of his life. Thomas ...
The Fruit of Power
April 21, 2021
Raoul Peck unspools Western history in a new documentary on colonialism and genocide
Must Love Bogs
April 20, 2021
Conserving peatlands is a cheap climate change win. So why’s it such a hard sell?
Fresh Hell
April 16, 2021
In God We Trust, All Others Get Book Deals
Armed and Dangerous
An afternoon of terror when detained by a corrupt Indiana cop.