Politics

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No Action

Francesca Newton

August 20, 2025

Repression in the name of freedom is becoming a feature of the UK.

Remake America

Aziz Rana

August 19, 2025

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu.

Fortress Beirut

Belén Fernández

August 19, 2025

The new U.S. embassy in Lebanon is one hundred thousand tons of diplomacy.

Pipe Hitters

Grayson Scott

August 14, 2025

America’s special operators bring the war home.

Magic Bullets

Tyler McBrien

August 13, 2025

Banned for use in war, the hollow point is the bullet of choice for American police.

The Prison Is Open

Susan Aboeid

August 12, 2025

Across the Middle East, prison abolition is no longer just an aspiration.

Forget About It

Sahasranshu Dash

August 11, 2025

Muhammad Yunus’s war on memory steers Bangladesh into authoritarianism.

Pity the Technocrat

Luke Savage

August 07, 2025

Canada’s Mark Carney wants to rejuvenate technocratic centrism.

You’ll See

Mary Turfah

August 06, 2025

The nukes are a pretense; they don’t exist, and the threat is manufactured.

Apocalypse 24/7

Roy Scranton

August 05, 2025

What could it possibly mean to say “the world is ending?”

Winging It

Noelle Mateer

July 22, 2025

“This is why I don’t fly.”

Reject Transgender Liberalism

Jules Gill-Peterson

July 21, 2025

The trans movement must change legal and political course.