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The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?
To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.
How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.
This essay is featured in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. The lineup at Donald Trump’s second inaugural was a veritable billionaire’s row, with the heaviest hitters of Big Tech out in full ...
The Parenting Panic Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.
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.
Would Kamala Harris’s foreign policy depart from Biden’s? Clues from the work of her national security advisor, Philip Gordon.
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 ...
What’s Next for Music Criticism? Pitchfork is dead, but good reviewing doesn’t have to die with it.
The Italian novelist Italo Calvino was unusually optimistic about the invention of a “literature machine.” In his 1967 essay “Cybernetics and Ghosts,” he imagines a computer that would be “capable of ...
A Jewish Plea: Stand Up to Israel’s Act of Genocide “Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.