Happy Birthday, Mr. President

Jasper Craven, Brian Karlsson

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Deadly Slop

Sophia Goodfriend

Militarized AI is billed as an expedient war machine—though its effect is often anything but.

July 9

Alien Enemies

Brandon Shimoda

The fascist turn is not sharp. It is a relinquishment of the disguise.

July 8

The Uneasy Oligarchy

Jamie Merchant

The ruling class is not just at odds with the state—it is at war with itself.

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June 17, 2025

The Annexation of the West Bank Is Complete

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October 7 demolished the last restraints on Israel’s annexation of the West Bank.

March 19, 2025

Guilt by Association

Shilpa Jindia

The crackdown on pro-Palestine speech.

January 29, 2025

A Ceasefire Is Not Enough

Tariq Kenney-Shawa

This period of taking stock is not just for Palestinians. It’s a reckoning for all of us.

January 21, 2025

Biden’s Final Humiliation

David Klion

The mass killing in Gaza is the one aspect of Biden’s legacy that can’t be erased.

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Current issue, no. 79

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Are medicine’s middlemen pharmacy parasites?

Humping Iron

Petra Browne

The secret network of sleaze underwriting female bodybuilding

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Though it was just one part of Donald Trump’s disastrously incompetent and cruel response to the coronavirus crisis, the president’s executive order on immigration in April revealed the dynamics that shape his administration better than just about anything he’s done in the ...

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Every May, as the city starts to heat up again, New Yorkers begin their annual pilgrimages down to Brighton Beach, a bustling post-Soviet-populated enclave on the shores of the Atlantic. This year, around the same time that beachgoers and babushkas alike were taking their first ...

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Worker’s Song

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What’s new about the “new music labor movement”?

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Through the Opera Glass

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Peter Gelb’s mismanagement of the Metropolitan Opera.

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Worker’s Song

Franz Nicolay

What’s new about the “new music labor movement”?

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Peter Gelb’s mismanagement of the Metropolitan Opera.

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Scientific Methods

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Does MAGA really want to destroy science?

June 25

André Aciman’s Permanent Vacation

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June 24

The Sufferable Gaucho

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Lessons in context management

June 19

The Prince of War

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Everything Erik Prince touches turns to shit

June 18

Come One, Come All!

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Fast Country

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Ghosts and vampires are no match for suburban fix and flip

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Can we stop acting as if all this is normal?

June 13

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It’s life and death, bro.

June 2

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Learning where someone lives can shift your entire sense of them.

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