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New Book: Ancestors
In our Winter 2021 book, some of today’s most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others. Preorder now.
New Book: Climate Action
How are we to meet the challenge of global warming before it is too late? And if global diplomacy initiatives like the Paris Agreement can’t get us there, what can? Order our latest book now.
New Book: Thinking in a Pandemic
In addition to our four print issues each year, this fall we are publishing a special supplemental book on the crisis of science and policy in the age of COVID-19. Order now.
Allies
On sale today, our new issue asks: How do people who are not alike forge productive alliances?
From the Editors: Economics After Neoliberalism
We live in a world made by neoliberalism, with its hostility to equality and democracy. It is time to stop.
How Race Made the Opioid Crisis
The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always turned on racial and economic difference.
From the Editors: Racist Logic
By examining the opioid crisis alongside the War on Drugs Murch brings an otherwise familiar story into new territory.
Quantifying Love
Reputational currency, like China’s Social Credit Score, rebrands repression as rational nudging. And these algorithmic governance models are spreading.
Racist Logic
The spring issue tackles how racist thinking can be found in surprising—and often overlooked—places. From the origins of the opioid epidemic to the global surrogacy industry, contributors not only explore the institutional structures that profit from black suffering, but also point the way to racial justice. PREORDER TODAY.
Banking on the Cold War
The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.
A History of Cyborg Sex, 2018–73
How sex with robots became safer—and better—than sex with actual men.
Once and Future Feminist
What can tech do for feminism? Our latest issue looks at the promises and the perils. Buy your copy today.
Losing and Gaining Public Goods
Resources that are essential to enabling human success and well-being must be made public and universal.
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