Politics

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Excavating the Internet

David Schurman Wallace

August 08, 2022

Studying the internet’s pre-history is interesting—but can it help us in the present?

Hard to Be a God

Joshua Craze

August 04, 2022

A new history of deification suggests that political power is always mythological.

Big Beefing

John Kazior

August 01, 2022

Delusions of bovine sustainability.

Who Profits?

Justin H. Vassallo

July 25, 2022

How nonprofits became vehicles for programs shaped and approved by capital.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

July 22, 2022

Dream a Little Dream It’s clear to all observers that the American Dream, that grim fantasy of cookie-cutter comfort, has come in for a beating in recent decades, in no small part due to the fact that housing prices have shot up over 260 percent since 1980, while the ...

The Prosperous Migrants

Rafia Zakaria

July 22, 2022

Today’s digital nomads can often work from a seaside cantina.

Sexual Rights, Sexual Wrongs

Emily Janakiram

July 22, 2022

On Amia Srinivasan’s “The Right to Sex.”

Prelude to a Redeployment

Amanda Sperber

July 21, 2022

Listening for signs of the Americans in Kismayo, Somalia.

Going Beyond the Law

Gaby Del Valle

July 20, 2022

The movement for reproductive justice cannot afford to turn the other cheek.

El Alto Chronicles

Ruxandra Guidi

July 18, 2022

Quya Reyna is a young Aymara writer who casts a light urban indigeneity in Bolivia.

The Woman without Qualities

Mariah Kreutter

July 12, 2022

Mieko Kawakami investigates feminine identity in the absence of consumption.

No Days Off

Matt Murphy

July 11, 2022

When workplace tracking technologies become less invasive, their use is normalized.