• Politics

    Dystopias

    With Apologies to Orwell, We’ve Gone Way Past 1984

    By Dorian Lynskey  June 7, 2019
    Dissidents

    Selahattin Demirtaş Writes From a High Security Turkish Prison

    By Selahattin Demirtaş  June 6, 2019
    Democracy

    Why Cities Lose in Winner-Takes-All Elections

    By Jonathan A. Rodden  June 6, 2019
    Democracy

    Can Democracy Survive Contemporary Capitalism?

    By Astra Taylor  June 5, 2019
    Dystopias

    70 Years of Misapplied Allegory: Happy Birthday 1984!

    By John Rodden  June 5, 2019
    The Cartels

    Life on the Margins in a Kingdom of Cartels

    By Dan Werb  June 5, 2019
    American History

    Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

    By Jill Lepore  June 4, 2019
    Dictators

    The Dark Side of the
    Chinese Dream

    By Ma Jian  June 3, 2019
    Economics

    How Ayn Rand Became the Spirit of Our Time

    By Lisa Duggan  May 31, 2019
    Populism

    Ece Temelkuran’s 7 Taxonomies of Global Populism

    By Keen On  May 31, 2019
    Trans Rights

    An Oral History of the Landmark Magazine for Trans Men That Became a Movement

    By Corinne Segal  May 30, 2019
    Dictators

    Ece Temelkuran on Erdogan, Trump, and the Banality of Evil

    By Ece Temelkuran  May 28, 2019
    The Hub

    Cartoon Brexit villain Jacob Rees-Mogg’s book is getting roasted by critics.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 21, 2019
    Adaptations

    Anna Deavere Smith: Some Notes on Notes from the Field

    By Anna Deavere Smith  May 21, 2019
    On Race

    Ebony Thomas on Seeking the Fantastic When the World Tells You Not To

    By Ebony Elizabeth Thomas  May 21, 2019
    News and Culture

    In India, One Publisher’s High-Stakes Fight for a Caste-Free Society

    By Liesl Schwabe  May 20, 2019
    Singer Songwriters

    Ani DiFranco on Reproductive Freedom and Taking on the Patriarchy

    By Ani DiFranco  May 20, 2019
    The Hub

    As abortion stories flood the internet one wonders when it will ever be enough?

    By Kaylen Ralph  May 17, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Ongoing Exile of the Undocumented

    By Oscar Villalon  May 17, 2019
    The Kids Are Alright

    A New Generation, Betrayed by the Old, is Rising Up on Climate Change

    By Pierre Ducrozet  May 17, 2019
    The Hub

    At last night’s Authors Guild benefit, calls to support authors in a troubled democracy.

    By Corinne Segal  May 16, 2019
    Refugees

    In a Refugee’s No Man’s Land at the Thai-Burmese Border

    By Pibulsak Lakonpol  May 16, 2019
    The Hub

    Good for publishing, bad for our souls: Michael Wolff has written a sequel to Fire and Fury.

    By Emily Temple  May 15, 2019
    Recovery

    The Struggle to Learn Nonviolence in a Violent Place

    By Rachel Louise Snyder  May 9, 2019
    Refugees

    Balancing Power in the Lebanese Borderlands

    By Alev Scott  May 9, 2019
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