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Generative AI has made it possible to create lifelike models of real people. Should we?
most days, during some mid-day hour, / I close my eyes and say the Sh’ma. / But it’s always the wrong time of day, / and it’s the only prayer I know
To make change, movements need to build endurance—the capacity to keep people showing up despite their differences.
Introducing our summer 2023 issue: What does solidarity mean, and how can movements build enough of it to change the world?
The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.
A long line of films tracks the solidarities that arise when prohibition makes friendship too perilous.
In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine.
The novel Kindred reminds us—emphatically, gruesomely—that white supremacy is us too.
Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.
Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.
Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.
German leaders have responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, breaking with the culture of pacifism that emerged after World War II and marking a new wave of militarization.
Writing from a city under siege, a founder of the landmark Kharkiv Center for Gender Studies reflects on the importance of women’s studies after the USSR collapsed, and what it helps us understand about Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
Alongside select archival essays, this special project features lawyers, activists, historians and more responding to the demands of the 2020 uprisings.
It’s a thing about being a man. To be so stingy, to deny even a sip of yourself. To deny and deny and deny until one day it all comes out as a violence, like water spewing forth from a hose.
When you weren’t sure if a guy was gay, you asked if he was Canadian. The straight ones always look puzzled, and told you they were American.
We knew language better than anybody, how you could crack it out of fortune cookies or loop it into a rhythm or rip it to shreds and make money off the confetti.
a presenter / interrupts a program to break the news of migrants / found dead on the shores of river niger. i look down / the streets through my window.
The novel Kindred reminds us—emphatically, gruesomely—that white supremacy is us too.
Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities.
Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.
The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.
Two new books critique poverty capital, but they don’t ask what borrowers need.
Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.
Not as it’s traditionally done, but there are more equitable models.
What does solidarity mean, and how can movements build enough of it to change society?
Featuring Mie Inouye, Rev. William Barber II, Astra Taylor, Charisse Burden-Stelly, David Roediger, Jodi Dean, Mariame Kaba, & many more, On Solidarity clarifies a key idea in struggles for a more just world.
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Attempts to cast Said as the consummate New York intellectual miss the point that his milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle.
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