Cosby Walks
As courts protect powerful men, they cannot enforce women's silence
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Life on the Edge
July 01, 2021
On the climate change attribution trap.
Working at the Faux-Op
July 01, 2021
Building solidarity between brands
Third Way to Nowhere
June 30, 2021
On self-serving nonsense from the consultant class.
Carob Tree
I want to talk with you. It’s been a whilesince anyone’s talked with me, no one aroundsays to me the things I say to youwhen I’m sleepwalking.For example, yesterday at 3AM the soldiers rainedtear gas bombs on us, ten workerswho crammed in a walk-in refrigerator for ...
This Woman’s Work
June 29, 2021
Alice Neel’s portraits of feminized labor.
Where Does It End?
June 28, 2021
135 questions for those who shape and (sometimes) occupy New York City’s extreme upper skyline.
Fresh Hell
June 25, 2021
One of These Things is Not Like the Other
Pop quiz: Anarchists, socialists, and neo-Nazis represent which terrorist ideological category? Tick tock, tick tock, time’s running out, dear reader. What tenuous thread could possibly link these three groups, which, at first glance, ...
Acquisition
Short fiction by Claudia Ross.
Omerta in France
Two trials expose a long tradition of silence about sexual abuse and pedophilia.
The Queer Other
June 24, 2021
The West likes to fancy itself uniquely tolerant of queer people. Murderous violence against trans people may be on the rise in the United States and hate crimes against LGBT individuals in Germany may have increased 36 percent last year, but, we’re assured, it’s really ...
Belief
Not a main one,but each time I erase itI forget my hands over the objectswhose faithcompels their reappearanceon my knuckles.
You are another kind of belief.It may dominate in the presence of the victim before meor reach out to the executioner in my heart.Each case the ...