As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, ...

In an interview in May, the head of the Israeli military intelligence’s targeting division responded to outrage over the civilian death toll in Gaza by boasting that algorithmic surveillance systems ...

The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, Brian Thompson, in an apparent assassination this week has led to an outpouring of popular rage against health insurance companies from across the political ...

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. A poet, short-story writer, essayist, and translator, he is among the most influential and accomplished literary figures of the last century. He is ...

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David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.

“Abroadness became my obsession.” When a young Nigerian girl is invited to go live with her uncle in Canada, it sets in motion a peculiar friendship with someone she has long envied.

Olivia Cheng is an MFA student in fiction at the University of Michigan. Previously, she worked in Silicon Valley managing engineering teams. “She stuffed spinach in her mouth until her teeth were a ...

Harsha Walia is an activist and writer based in Vancouver. Her latest book is Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism.

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