For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?

On July 1, Donald Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem joined Ron DeSantis to open a new immigration detention center near Everglades National Park in Florida. “Alligator Alcatraz,” as ...

The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

This past April, the FBI made an admission that was nothing short of catastrophic for the field of forensic science. In an unprecedented display of repentance, the Bureau announced that, for years, ...

Keep Pride Nude It’s an important part of the fight for a freer society.

To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

Over the past fifteen years of observing tech development, I’ve found that terms I once used like “cyber-utopianism,” “Internet-centrism,” and “techno-solutionism” fail to fully capture Big Tech’s ...

Fifty years ago, the American Indian Movement occupied the site of a historic massacre. They won real gains in the face of brutal counterinsurgency tactics.

Toward a Trans* Feminism Feminism and trans* activism have been at odds for decades. They don’t need to be.

April 13, 2023 This essay appears in print in Is Equal Opportunity Enough?. In June 2020 Donald Trump tweeted, in characteristically hyperbolic style, that his administration had “done more for the ...