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Science & Nature

What Are “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”?

A recent government report gave UFOs a rebrand, but so many basic questions remain unanswered.

Poetry

Nothing runs up the spine of the farmer who finds his skull, fearlessly shoveling away rocks, mining out an...

Centuries From Now I’ll Be the Archaeologist Who Digs Up Ferdinand Marcos’s Bones

Class & Inequality, Politics

Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists

The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance.

Prabhat Patnaik

Science & Nature

Lost in Space

Billionaires such as Musk, Bezos, and Branson peddle the idea that space represents a public hope, all the while reaping big private profits.

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Beyond Choice

Liberalism cannot simply be extended to the uterus. Reproductive justice requires a vision of the social body.

Science & Nature

Use Sunlight Locally (or Lose It)

A new “solar homesteading law” could harness rays of sun that fall on roofs and parking lots in cities and advance the aims of energy democracy.

David McDermott Hughes

Arts in Society, Politics

The Sounds of Struggle

Sixty years ago, a pathbreaking jazz album from Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, and Oscar Brown, Jr., fused politics and art in the fight for Black liberation. Black artists are taking similar strides today.

Arts in Society

Elegies for Empire

Three new poetry collections refuse the binaries and amnesia that so often characterize American mourning.

Virginia Konchan

Class & Inequality

China and the Lure of Global Capitalism

Markets have played a central role in the country’s explosive development since the 1980s. But as GDP rose, inequality has soared—a stark turn away from earlier socialist ideals.

Arts in Society

Dog Tiger Horse

“I could have been a clever girl. When the first of the Japanese bombs fell on Penang, my father stopped us from going to school. And when the war was over, there was no question of going back. So I married your father.” Three generations of a family struggle to maintain their way of life in a country changed irrevocably by war.

Race

Looking for Nat Turner

Frightened slaveowners cast the rebel leader as a monster. Scholars have misunderstood his religiosity. A new creative history comes closer than ever to giving us access to Turner’s visionary life.

Alberto Toscano

Race

Blackness and the Bomb

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it is long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts during the Cold War.

Class & Inequality

In the Common Interest

Chris Hong, Robert Manduca, Nic Johnson

Neoliberalism’s Bailout Problem

Robert Pollin, Gerald Epstein

How Biden Could Save Welfare

Ben Zdencanovic

Our Insurance Dystopia

China and the Lure of Global Capitalism

Portrait of the United States as a Developing Country

Justin H. Vassallo

We Don't Know, But Let's Try It

Simon Torracinta

Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists

Prabhat Patnaik

Housing Is a Social Good

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, H. Jacob Carlson

Science & Nature

Lost in Space

AI’s Future Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian

Science Doesn't Work That Way

Gregory E. Kaebnick

The Feminist Past History Can't Give Us

What Are “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”?

Stop Building Bad AI

Annette Zimmermann

Poetry in the Critical Zone

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies

Race, Policing, and the Limits of Social Science

READING LISTS

A Very Short History of Freedom and Violence

READING LIST

An anti-imperialism reading list for July 4th.

Archival Essays for Juneteenth

READING LIST

“It is a commonplace to say that slavery ‘dehumanized’ enslaved people, but to do so is misleading, harmful, and worth resisting.”

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