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Workplace Data Is a Tool of Class Warfare
Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
The Iraq War’s Catastrophic Consequences
Twenty years later, the U.S.-led invasion continues to shape geopolitics for the worse.
Two Poems
The stones are endlessly weeping in the dark. Or is it
the bird-chatter of rain. O darling, are you writing
another poem about trees? No, not trees but ghosts
that live on trees and their legend of never-let-gos.
Iraq, Twenty Years Later
How the militarization of politics continues to destabilize Iraq decades after the U.S.-led invasion.
What Will It Take to Save Democracy?
Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says “it’s the economy, stupid.” The truth is more complicated.
Father of War
My son’s violent illness humbled my sense of control and transformed my understanding of what it means to parent.
Yes, Tax the Rich—and Also the Merely Affluent
For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.
Kaitiakitanga
The world never really ended. An apocalypse wasn’t an end so much as a change of state, ice into water.
A Body of One’s Own
Feminist arguments against body modification are a dead end.
A Piece of One’s Past
What does it mean for those living in the diaspora to remain attached to the land they left behind?
The Wind Has Swept Away What the Fire Has Spared
“I will be a tightrope walker,” she said, “and I will walk across the air to you.”
Spring Event Series
Join us as we welcome six thinkers to discuss AI governance, cooperation democracy, and more.
Will U.S.-Israel Policies Ever Change?
They might, given growing disaffection with Israel among young American Jews.
How Not to Tell the History of Science
Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.
The World Speculation Made
Contemporary life has been deeply molded by financialization. But the speculative imagination can also be a tool for building a more just world.
The Frozen Politics of Social Security
The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.
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