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Drawing of a woman with dragon wings and breathing fire, accompanied by a machine with a tail

Literature

The Monster Became My Companion

June 11, 2025Matthew Kosinski, Laurie Sheck

From A Treatise on Artificial Limbs with Rubber Hands and Feet (1899) | George Edwin Marks / Not in Copyright

North America

Greg Abbott’s Wheelchair

June 10, 2025Andrew Joseph Pegoda

Black and white photograph of the right hemisphere of human brain with ruler measurement

Philosophy

Great Engineers, Terrible Philosophers

June 9, 2025Luciano Floridi, Giannis Perperidis, Alexandros Schismenos

Detail of marble sculpture of woman in veil with eyes closed and mouth open in expression of ecstasy

Reviews

God Bless Perverts

June 4, 2025Mikayla Emerson

Painting of woman in eighteenth-century French clothes looking over her shoulder holding a bouquet and letter

Reviews

June 3, 2025Madeleine Adams

Unsettled

What of the “Homeless, Tempest Tost”?

May 30, 2025T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura, Cristina M Rodríguez

Soft-focus photo of water falling

Philosophy

Can Poetry Still Unite Us?

May 28, 2025Carina Filemyr, Sarah V. Schweig

Brown background with text

Urban Environments

May 28, 2025Sarah V. Schweig

Spotted doe sniffs hand of man in bustling Japanese street

Urban Environments

Reimagining Ecological Repair

May 26, 2025Mairéad O’Donnell

Sign on 5 freeway in San Diego warning that it is illegal to carry weapons or ammunition into Mexico

Reviews

United States Makes Weapons—Then Sells Them to Mexican Cartels

May 22, 2025Jeremy Robson

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with Monkey, Birds, and Insects (ca. 1582–1616) | Mathais Beitler / Public Domain

Democracy

Ecology and Democracy in a World on Fire

May 21, 2025Jedediah Britton-Purdy

This small device has a tin case painted yellow and green on top and red around the edge. The top of the case has four wheels drawn on it, each of which has the digits from 1 to 9 drawn around the edge. The digits go clockwise for the first and third circles (marked “Cents” and “Dollars” and counterclockwise for the second and fourth circles (marked “Dimes” and “Dollars”). At the top of each circle, at the zero position, is a window that reveals a rotating disc below. The discs are rotated using thumbscrews that protrude from the back of the instrument. An arm on top of each circle points to a digit on the wheel. The discs advance when they are rotated in the direction of increasing digits and remain fixed when the arrows are moved back to zero.

Politics

US Tariffs and Trump’s Neopatrimonial Mercantilism

May 21, 2025William Milberg