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The Digital Economy is Destroying Our Lives and Our Planet—and AI is Only Going to Make It Worse

The Digital Economy is Destroying Our Lives and Our Planet—and AI is Only Going to Make It Worse

Matthew Cole Raises the Alarm

By Matthew Cole | May 28, 2026

How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms

How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms

Odd Arne Westad on the Lessons We Haven't Learned From the Devastation of the Great War

By Odd Arne Westad | May 27, 2026

On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution

On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution

Sarah M.S. Pearsall Discusses the Bloody History of Pontiac‘s War

By Sarah M. S. Pearsall | May 26, 2026

Does Xi Jinping Really Think China is Athens and the US is Sparta? And is Trump Getting Any of This?

Does Xi Jinping Really Think China is Athens and the US is Sparta? And is Trump Getting Any of This?

Andrew Bayliss Wonders Why the Chinese Leader Keeps Bringing Up the “Thucydides Trap”?

By Andrew Bayliss | May 22, 2026

What Happens When Billionaires Control the Media?

What Happens When Billionaires Control the Media?

Nick Romeo Looks to Aldous Huxley and Gore Vidal for Clues About Where We’re Headed

By Nick Romeo | May 21, 2026

An Exile’s Guide to Losing a Country

An Exile’s Guide to Losing a Country

Ece Temelkuran on the Slow Creep of Authoritarianism

By Ece Temelkuran | May 21, 2026

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How Donald Trump and His Allies Seek to Remake American Schools in Their Own Image

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Why Everyone is Talking About Salome These Days

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Sally Rooney will publish a Hebrew translation of <em>Intermezzo</em> with a BDS-friendly publisher.

Sally Rooney will publish a Hebrew translation of Intermezzo with a BDS-friendly publisher.

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On Copaganda, Pinkwashing, and the Time I Almost Became an NYPD Cop

On Copaganda, Pinkwashing, and the Time I Almost Became an NYPD Cop

Steven W. Thrasher Examines the Alluring Idea of the “Good Black Cop”

By Steven W. Thrasher | May 19, 2026

On the Run and Underground: When Your Mom’s on the FBI’s Most Wanted List

On the Run and Underground: When Your Mom’s on the FBI’s Most Wanted List

Zayd Ayers Dohrn Remembers a Childhood Spent in Hiding With His Parents

By Zayd Ayers Dohrn | May 19, 2026

Translator Beware: On the Myth of the Finicky English Reader

Translator Beware: On the Myth of the Finicky English Reader

Anton Hur Discusses the Future of Literary Translation

By Anton Hur | May 18, 2026

Writing in Exile: Why Russian Dissident Literature Demands Our Attention

Writing in Exile: Why Russian Dissident Literature Demands Our Attention

Katherine Kelaidis on the Russian Writers Defying Putin's Regime from Abroad

By Katherine Kelaidis | May 18, 2026

What’s Next For Nation-States? On the Past, Present and Future of the World As We Know It

What’s Next For Nation-States? On the Past, Present and Future of the World As We Know It

Rana Dasgupta Considers Old and New Possibilities For the Organization of Geopolitical Power

By Rana Dasgupta | May 18, 2026

Who to Blame For the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously

Who to Blame For the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously

Dylan Gottlieb on How Financialization Remade Corporate America and Wall Street

By Dylan Gottlieb | May 15, 2026

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