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Recovery
“‘No,’ Miho said, shaking her head. ‘I don’t want to share.’” Private tragedy forces a New York woman into attending group addiction therapy sessions.
Metaphysics and Morals
How four women defended ethical thought from the legacy of positivism.
Three Paths for Labor after Amazon
Recent union drives point the way to more effective action against corporate power.
Our Last Night at the Carnival
“I am wearing a fake diamond ring. It cost ten dollars in quarters and lots of concentration.” A mother, her daughter, and her romantic rival try to outmaneuver one another.
Queering the Dating App
Tinder and OkCupid should drop the gender binary. Doing so would help all users—queer and straight alike.
After Free Trade
As the neoliberal order unravels, the international economic system can and must make room for cooperative forms of state-driven development.
Will Buffalo Change Anything?
David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.
The Dead End of Corporate Activism
Companies are unreliable allies in the fight for queer rights and social justice.
Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head
Decades of biological research haven’t improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
The Burdened Virtue of Racial Passing
Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.
The New Old Geography
Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.
Roe Was Never Enough Anyway
It is long past time for law and policy to facilitate affordable and accessible services.
Are the Courts the Way to Queer Rights?
Saving LGBT equality requires strategic pluralism—marshaling legal challenges and electoral mobilization as well as social movement activism.
The Racial Capitalism of Care
A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.
From the Editors: Rethinking Law
In a deeply unequal society, the law can certainly impede progress, but it also remains an essential resource in building a more just world.
Our Global Food System Was Already in Crisis. Russia’s War Will Make It Worse
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
Grooming and the Christian Politics of Innocence
Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as threats to child welfare.
Two poems by Maya Marshall
An Abortion Ban
is a body snatcher,
is an ethnic cleansing.
The uterus is a cave,
is an incubator, is a vault,
is a self-destructing bomb,
is a thoroughfare.
Far from Ukraine, Putin’s War Worsens Palm Oil Crisis
The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.
What Movements Do to Law
When we think, write, and act alongside movements, we help disrupt the everyday violence of law and imagine more radical transformation.
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