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Dead Planet or Livable Future: What Story Will We Tell of Ourselves?

Dead Planet or Livable Future: What Story Will We Tell of Ourselves?

Andrew Keen on the Urgency of the Current Moment

By Andrew Keen | August 26, 2022

The book-banning lawsuit against Barnes & Noble is moving forward in Virginia.

The book-banning lawsuit against Barnes & Noble is moving forward in Virginia.

By Corinne Segal | August 25, 2022

Phong Nguyen on Vietnam Then, Taiwan Today, and China’s Interests Abroad

Phong Nguyen on Vietnam Then, Taiwan Today, and China’s Interests Abroad

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 25, 2022

How Big Pharma and Big Tech Collude To Exploit Basic Human Needs

How Big Pharma and Big Tech Collude To Exploit Basic Human Needs

Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence on the Monetization of Everyday Life

By Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence | August 25, 2022

A Texas woman went to the cops about an actual library book.

A Texas woman went to the cops about an actual library book.

By Jonny Diamond | August 24, 2022

How Technology Can Both Improve and Degrade Our Urban Environment

How Technology Can Both Improve and Degrade Our Urban Environment

John Lorinc on the Benefits and Pitfalls of “Smart Cities”

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The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America

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Can a Critic of “Wokeness” Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?

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William Deresiewicz in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the US Census

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Dan Bouk in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

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A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

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Mike Rothschild on the Ongoing Influence of QAnon and Its Self-Made Mythologies

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How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

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