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Passing for Racial Democracy

Stephanie Reist

December 06, 2021

The complexities of the color line in the U.S. and Brazil.

The Tyranny of the Task

Josh Gabert-Doyon

November 29, 2021

With “microwork,” good old-fashioned piecework gets a digital makeover.

Fun, Games, and Extractivism

Dolly Church

November 24, 2021

Fossil fuels have a new recruitment strategy: Minecraft

Great Power Competitions

Sammy Feldblum

November 18, 2021

When ping-pong redirected diplomacy between the U.S. and China

Lord of the Flies

Max Pearl

November 17, 2021

Science fiction and settler colonialism collide in Rafael Bernal's Mexico.

Keeping up with the Buttigiegs

Matthew Zarenkiewicz

November 15, 2021

On the campaign trail with Mayor Pete.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

November 12, 2021

My Big Fat Getty Wedding As nominally the most powerful woman in the nation that is singularly responsible for cumulatively pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other, Nancy Pelosi recognizes the moral responsibility of the United States to, after decades of ...

Give Peace a Chance

Joshua Craze

November 11, 2021

Séverine Autesserre’s apologia for international peacebuilding.

This Land is Their Land

Jordan G. Teicher

November 09, 2021

The billionaire class holds the planet for ransom

Left Behind

Lydia Kiesling

November 02, 2021

The Build Back Better Act makes families a bargaining chip.

The Florida Projects

Saritha Ramakrishna

October 26, 2021

There’s no shortage of places to call home, if only for a little while, in Florida’s Osceola County—plenty of sumptuous McMansions await vacationers on secular pilgrimage to the Magic Kingdom, and Jimmy Buffett-themed timeshares enable visitors to buy into their own ...

Taxis Take a Stand

Luis Feliz Leon

October 14, 2021

In New York City, cabbies are protesting 24/7 for debt relief.