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Environmentalism serves the powerful

May 14

Disaster of the House

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Democrats have done nothing to disentangle housing policy from deregulation

May 13

Extravagances of Neoliberalism

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May 9

How German Isn’t It

Alex Cocotas

To be Jewish in Germany today is to abrogate the possibility of being German and Jewish.

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May 2, 2024

Parting Waters

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The narrative of Jews as the eternally oppressed too often takes center stage.

April 30, 2024

Pinkwashing the Timeline

Schuyler Mitchell

Just beneath the surface of pro-Zionist discourse lies a disdain for queerness.

April 17, 2024

Stealing the Voice of Authority

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It’s embarrassing to write for the New York Times.

April 11, 2024

Crimes Against Language

Sarah Aziza

In genocide, all language fails.

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Current issue, no. 73

It’s Not What the World Needs Right Now

Andrew Norman Wilson

Good Enough

Sam Adler-Bell

Psychoanalysis learns to love letting go

Naught for Teacher

Jennifer C. Berkshire

How Democrats abet the right’s war on public education

From the Archives

Told you so

Life is unfair. But then so is the law.

The Rule of Law in Shambles

Thomas Geoghegan

June 2006

The untamed properties of nonhuman personhood, animal, vegetable, and corporate.

Who Speaks for the Trees?

Astra Taylor

September 2016

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May 10

Diagnosis: Burnout

Jess McAllen

Three doctors reflect on the state of the health care industry.

May 8

Feeling Blessed

Christopher Hooks

Pining for monarchy at the Habsburg symposium in Plano, Texas.

May 7

A Perfect Telegram from Hell

Philippa Snow

On the late Heather Lewis.

Diagnosis: Burnout

Jess McAllen

May 10

Diagnosis: Burnout

Jess McAllen

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May 8

Feeling Blessed

Christopher Hooks

Pining for monarchy at the Habsburg symposium in Plano, Texas.

May 7

A Perfect Telegram from Hell

Philippa Snow

On the late Heather Lewis.

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May 6

Boys Next Door

Will Harrison

Geoffrey Mak’s reckoning with masculinity

May 6

Echo #76

Fady Joudah

A poem by Fady Joudah

May 1

Into the Meat Grinder

Edna Bonhomme

On the migrant workers who feed Germany

April 26

Privileges of Misery

Max Pearl

Turning the upstairs-downstairs genre upside down

April 24

Are You Feeling It?

Max Kiefel

Surveying the Great Disconnect

April 23

Soul Aristocrats

Bailey Trela

Cristina Campo’s fairy-tale mysticism

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April

Green tuppence strewn

Wayne Koestenbaum

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You Choose the World: A Poetics

Rosa Alcalá

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Fit to Print

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May 3

Promise Land

Sasha Fletcher

When I say the sea I mean the traffic.

April 19

Da Steppt Der Bär

William Hayward

The thrill of being in the whale.

April 1

Machine City

Ed Park

They let you set your ceiling till the last minute. Then you’re locked in.

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