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Condemning U.S. deference to Israel, a cousin remembers the life and legacy of the slain Palestinian American journalist.
A new book offers a compelling, if imperfect, account of the bad feelings with which trans people often struggle.
Images seized from enslaved people are not private property to be owned but ancestors to be cared for.
Public interest journalism may not be salvageable. But more than being saved, it needs to be radically rethought.
Fixating on whether Trump’s response to COVID-19 is totalitarian makes it difficult to have a nuanced discussion about the role government should play in times of crisis.
The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight—the same position it held in 1953, when the United States and USSR detonated their first hydrogen bombs. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?
The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque.
Vijay Prashad on writing, struggle, and hope in difficult times.
Walden is often championed as an anti-technology manifesto. But this misses the value Thoreau found in conversations spread across vast spans of time and distance.
A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.
A new biography of Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the Futurama, tells the story of American innovation.
Why did the alt-right, so eager to excuse Milo Yiannopoulos, finally turn on him?
Milo Yiannopoulos was the paradoxical posterboy for the alt-right's fascist aesthetic. Until he wasn't.
Tilda Swinton, icon of indy cinema, is masterful in A Bigger Splash.
Trump will have done real damage even if he doesn't win.
Before there was New Journalism, there was Lillian Ross.
Donald Trump’s backers force the U.S. to confront its long-submerged id.
Polls are bad at picking presidents but still have much to teach us.
The GOP frontrunner thrives on his opponents’ outrage.
Unisex Fashion Fought the Gender Binary, and the Binary Won.
Brain images are ubiquitous and compelling, but the science behind them is not.
Guardian journalist Uki Goñi discusses his career reporting from Buenos Aires.
Any literate person could recognize that the essay was a work of art. But Google’s family-friendly algorithm decided it was porn.
The Russian dissident poet Kirill Medvedev struggles to craft a new left that is independent of the history of the Soviet Union.
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