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Pastel drawing of grassy bridge
Interview
Imperfect Images
October 2, 2025Alexandra Chaves, Sohrab Hura
Photograph of a figure wearing a red woven top and black balaclava
Race
Looking Back on the Zapatistas’ Revolutionary Fashion
October 1, 2025Mike Harrington
Contemporary paint of a Black man looking at himself in the mirror. Use of off white, navy and light blue are used to distinguish the reflection and subject of piece.
Sex & Gender
“Masc Only”
September 30, 2025Yann Phesans
A street mural of two young people raising their fists is painted on a wall.
Power and Crisis
The Revolutionary Street Art of Bangladesh’s 2024 Uprising
September 29, 2025Rayna Salam
Farmworkers pick strawberries in long rows of fields. One worker in a black hoodie and muddy boots carries a box of berries on their shoulder while others harvest in the background. The image underscores the presence of immigrants in agricultural fieldwork and their labor in the U.S. agricultural system.
Migration
Immigration Is Imperative
September 25, 2025Purushottam Bhandare, Katerina Canyon
Copper sculpture of crucified Christ
Science & Technology
Peter Thiel and the Decline of the West
September 24, 2025Ahmed Bouzid
Printing of three floating Roman columns surrounded by clouds and orange and yellow thunderbolts
United States
The New Political Theology
September 24, 2025Arthur Goldhammer
Color illustration of three students sitting in classroom desks, two looking behind them at a third. Their heads, bodies, arms, and legs are composed of separate pyramidal forms, and their hair is green. There is a capital “R” in the righthand corner.
Science & Technology
What If Using AI Isn’t Cheating?
September 22, 2025Claire Potter
Two figures in white robe stand on stage in swirling colored light
The Arts
The Art of Change: A Libretto
September 18, 2025Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Chiara Bottici, Matteo Procuranti
A drawing of an icy blue grotto with two figures in a boat at the far right and an opening in the back wall emitting brilliant white light over the scene.
Theory & Practice
The Lonely Moralists
September 18, 2025Jack Jiang
Black and white photograph of two men with 1930s film camera casting large shadows on the wall. One man is speaking into a loudspeaker
Media
A Martyr and a Meme
September 17, 2025Benjamin Andrew Schupmann
Vietnamese refugee families, including women and children, walk past rows of tents in a temporary resettlement camp in the United States after the fall of Saigon, 1975.
War
Looking Back: The Indochina Migration and Refugee Act
September 16, 2025Catherine Simpson Bueker

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