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Suffering and the Second Amendment Debate

Should gun deaths be spoken about in the debate about gun control?

  • Simon Waxman

Do Game Changers Matter?

Political science and political reporting.

  • Lynn Vavreck

Censored by Google

Any literate person could recognize that the essay was a work of art. But Google’s family-friendly algorithm decided it was porn.

  • Joel Whitney

Direct Expression

An interview with the dissident poet and essayist Kirill Medvedev about a new Russian left.

  • Emma Goldhammer

Black in Time

Kiese Laymon's Novel Explores the Messy Complexity of Race in America

  • Lucy McKeon

Who Are You Calling Poor?

Managing Editor Simon Waxman interviews Jina Moore about how she reports and writes about poverty.

  • Simon Waxman
  • Jina Moore

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The Failure of Thought Leadership

Fareed Zakaria and the plagiarism scandal.

  • David V. Johnson

The White Correspondent’s Burden

Today, the “savage nature” of Africa is still on display.

  • Jina Moore

Serbia’s Brokeback Mountain

Srđan Dragojević’s film about the aspirations of gay Serbs may finally be puncturing a culture of homophobia.

  • Paul Hockenos

Poetry Changed the World

Injury and the ethics of reading.

  • Elaine Scarry

My Dinner with Andrew Breitbart

Breaking bread with the right’s bad boys.

  • Bill Ayers

The Networked Era: An Interview with Michael Nielsen

Why discussion boards and online marketplaces can make it easier for scientists to pool their data and find far-flung collaborators.

  • Michael Nielsen
  • Lindsey Gilbert

Underground In Beirut

A Syrian activist continues the fight from Lebanon.

  • Josh Wood

How to Write About Africa

At the offices of Kwani—a literary agitator without peer. 

  • Anna Clark

All Of Humanity

King Lear on the big screen.

  • Alan A. Stone

Books After Amazon

Amazon isn’t just bad for cities; it’s also bad for books.

  • Onnesha Roychoudhuri

Off Minor

Robin D.G. Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original restores the pianist and composer to the history he lived through.

  • Scott Saul

The Rebel

Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love

  • Alan A. Stone

Sharing Liberally

The main argument of Cognitive Surplus rests on a striking analogy. 

  • Evgeny Morozov

Speak, Memory

Can digital storage remember for you?

  • Evgeny Morozov

What Does That Server Really Serve?

How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom.

  • Richard M. Stallman

“Civilizing Haiti”

It is now eight days since an earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince.

  • Colin Dayan

The Mind’s Eye

Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

  • Alan A. Stone

Good Will

Stranger than Fiction is an unexpectedly delightful film that brings whimsy and grown-up humor back to the movies.

  • Alan A. Stone
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