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May 28, 2025
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Gun Violence
United States Makes Weapons—Then Sells Them to Mexican Cartels
May 22, 2025
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Democracy
Ecology and Democracy in a World on Fire
May 21, 2025
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.
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US Tariffs and Trump’s Neopatrimonial Mercantilism
May 21, 2025
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Can Poetry Still Unite Us?
May 28, 2025 and
An interview with Sarah Schweig by Carina Filemyr on her new poetry collection The Ocean in the Next Room
Spotted doe sniffs hand of man in bustling Japanese street
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Reimagining Ecological Repair
May 26, 2025
A review of Laura J. Martin’s Wild by Design
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The Blue House
May 28, 2025
Sign on 5 freeway in San Diego warning that it is illegal to carry weapons or ammunition into Mexico
Gun Violence
United States Makes Weapons—Then Sells Them to Mexican Cartels
May 22, 2025
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, 2025
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.
Economy
US Tariffs and Trump’s Neopatrimonial Mercantilism
May 21, 2025
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The Khalil Case and the Constitution
April 15, 2025
Introducing Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times
April 10, 2025
Black Children, White Schools
April 9, 2025
Fagin!
March 19, 2025
No More Girl Bosses
February 28, 2025
Arise, Ye Workers From Your Slumbers
February 19, 2025
The Great American Crack-Up
February 10, 2025
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“The Amazon Is Not a Warehouse”
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The Islandization of Miami
April 22, 2025
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Petro-Capitalist Status Quo
November 12, 2024
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Cities
How Can Cities Drive Net-Zero Carbon Goals and Create Vibrant Urban Communities?
March 13, 2024
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Taking Water for Granted
March 5, 2024 and
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Why Progressive “Myths” Distort Solutions to the Housing Shortage
March 18, 2025 and
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In Search of the Sublime … Underground
February 26, 2025
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Where the Avant-Garde Went to Grow
November 26, 2024 and
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Migrants Are Parents and Children
October 31, 2024
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Noncitizen Voting and the Politics of Common Sense in New York City
October 28, 2024 and
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In Search of the Sublime … Underground
February 26, 2025
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Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest Is Silence
February 20, 2025
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Camille Bordas’s Latest Novel Follows Comedians on the Hunt for Material
September 20, 2024
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Art and Wartime in Ann Hood’s The Stolen Child
May 13, 2024 and
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A Love Affair Without Sex?
May 2, 2024 and
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Asylum and the Hierarchy of Suffering
February 27, 2025 and
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Border Time
February 24, 2025
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Migrants Are Parents and Children
October 31, 2024
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Leaving Honduras
October 31, 2024 and
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“Blame It on the Immigrant”: The Housing Crisis Edition
October 18, 2024
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Sex & Gender
The Left Needs a Better Defense of Trans People
April 24, 2025
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Enemy Feminisms
April 8, 2025
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Yes, Some of Our Enemies Are Feminists
April 8, 2025 and
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The Taliban’s Systematic Erasure of Women Is Crippling Afghan Society
April 7, 2025
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The Powerful Convergence of Past, Present, and Future in Catherine Texier’s Latest Novel
January 23, 2025 and
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Misanthropy Is Having a Moment
December 5, 2024
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Christine de Pizan and Women’s Tongues
November 25, 2024
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Simon Critchley on the Most Important Philosophical Book of the Twentieth Century
July 1, 2024 and
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Universalism in Dark Times
April 19, 2024
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Animal Sovereignties and the Wolves of Isle Royale
March 12, 2024
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