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This note introduces our Summer 2025 issue. Read the Table of Contents here. Subscribe to get a copy. This second issue of our fiftieth year features longtime contributors (including Robin D. G.
Given the history of Israel’s smearing of journalists in Gaza as a precursor to assassinating them, the Committee to Protect Journalists publicly called for al-Sharif’s protection. But on August 10, ...
The best guarantee on the professionalism, honesty, and effectiveness of its delivery is to let international journalists ...
The Italian novelist Italo Calvino was unusually optimistic about the invention of a “literature machine.” In his 1967 essay “Cybernetics and Ghosts,” he imagines a computer that would be “capable of ...
A Jewish Plea: Stand Up to Israel’s Act of Genocide “Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.
Democrats don’t lose elections because of rising prices. They lose when they cut spending and raise interest rates, sacrificing other goals at the altar of price stability.
The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.
Fifty years ago, the American Indian Movement occupied the site of a historic massacre. They won real gains in the face of brutal counterinsurgency tactics.
The Dream Hoarders Focusing on the top 1 percent is a mistake. The real class divide is between the upper middle class—the top 20 percent—and the rest of America.
April 13, 2023 This essay appears in print in Is Equal Opportunity Enough?. In June 2020 Donald Trump tweeted, in characteristically hyperbolic style, that his administration had “done more for the ...
On violence and the possibility of solidarities in America.
These efforts have implications for longstanding debates around technology and the future of work. For more than a decade, scholars, journalists, and tech leaders have focused on two ways that ...