Psychic Numbing
For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?
The Bonfire of the Words
“If ideas are discarded when no longer modish, could we not do the same with unfashionable words?”
Labor and the Bibi-Modi “Bromance”
India’s recruitment drives to send workers to Israel resemble British indenture.
The Summers of Theory
How it rose, fell, and may rise again.
I Pass Women Sewing at their Singers and a Blind Albino Child
I once wrote letters to a prisoner at Guantánamo. The letters always came back / opened.
What’s Next for Music Criticism?
Pitchfork is dead, but good reviewing doesn’t have to die with it.
Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?
Long decried by liberals and conservatives alike, the Martinican psychiatrist remains one of the most piercing critics of colonialism.
A Crack in Putin’s Armor
What the concert hall attack means for the Russian leader’s future.
Two Photographs
The first capturing your gaze into nowhere
the other when you covered your face with your hands
so you were not anonymous, only unseen
The Ghost of Gabriel García Márquez
On the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s posthumously published novel, Until August.
What Does It Take to Keep a Movement Going?
Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix discuss their new book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, And Future of a World-Changing Idea.
Three Poems
a sunset makes a sound doesn’t it
I learned too late
The Judicial War on Government
The Supreme Court’s latest bid to control agencies like the EPA—and Congress itself.
We Are Not from Where We Are From
A Palestinian catalog of ruin and resilience.
Naming the Unnamed War
Bertrand Tavernier’s daring documentary about the Algerian revolution sought to break the silence in France.
Inside the Legal Fight for Trans Rights
Two prominent litigators discuss decades of progress, the backlash today, and the road ahead.
A Menacing Silence
Why is the reality of Palestinian suffering denied in the Israeli consciousness?
In the Hot Archive
On Lakdhas Wikkramasinha’s vanished histories.
“We Are Neither Prophets nor Mad”
An interview with poet Fady Joudah about writing his latest collection amid war in Gaza.
Two Poems
From time to time, language dies. / It is dying now. / Who is alive to speak it?
Aaron Bushnell and the Power of Protest
A Vietnam veteran on the political legacy of self-sacrifice and antiwar movements.
The New Blue Divide
Democrats increasingly rely on affluent suburbanites. Does that spell the end of a bold economic agenda? A forum with Heather Gautney, Ro Khanna, Dorian Warren, and others.
Freeing Free Trade
Is there anything left to anti-imperial visions of global commerce?
It gets better, by halves
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