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Necessary Anger

Laurie Penny

December 18, 2019

Labour's Loss: Coping with the biggest electoral setback for the British left since 1935.

This is What Insanity Sounds Like

Eli Zeger

December 17, 2019

On the curiously self-tortured legacy of post-grunge music

Mister Politician Man

Kaleem Hawa

December 16, 2019

On Justin Trudeau’s missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Your Friends Are Not HR

Kate Wagner

December 12, 2019

I’ve fought two uphill battles during my time on earth: mental illness (neurodivergence) and friendship. Friendship is difficult for me. When people are not upfront with what they need from me or what they want to say to me, the difficulty of reading social cues intersects ...

Propaganda, Anti-propaganda

Joel Whitney

December 06, 2019

On The Report and the history of the CIA onscreen

The Trials of Scott Warren

Emily Lynn Saunders,  Max Granger

December 05, 2019

How the state has tried and failed to criminalize solidarity in the borderlands

Silicon Valley’s Sun Kings

Tom Thor Buchanan

November 26, 2019

What would it look like for Silicon Valley’s elite to find its soul?

The Lamentation of Doctor Faustus

Andrew Marzoni

November 22, 2019

Music and fascism fifty years after Adorno

Lions and Tigers and Bears

C.M. Lewis

November 21, 2019

Reject the focus-grouped inanity of corporate Democrats

Designing the Spectacle

Daisy Alioto

November 18, 2019

What makes a free design program radical?

The Community Engagement Racket

Samantha Schuyler

November 15, 2019

How universities get rich by stiffing their neighbors

God Help Me

Ross Barkan

November 13, 2019

An interview with novelist Jarett Kobek