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Science & Nature

The Sins of “Smart” Cities

What happens when we reframe complex social and political issues as technical puzzles? Two new books challenge modern cities' over-reliance on data and technology.

Ruth Miller

Literature & Culture

Dystopia Is Everywhere

Hye-young Pyun’s surreal, violent novels reject stereotypes about Korean women’s writing, taking up global themes of environmental collapse and the loneliness of city life.

Jae Won Chung

Literature & Culture

Was Architecture Better Under Socialism?

Yugoslavia produced a thrilling variety of buildings—frequently departing from the prefabricated monotony of the Eastern Bloc.

Anthony Paletta

Reading Lists

Amazon’s Empire

Our best writers take on the retail giant.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Race

When the Klan Came to Town

History reminds us that firm and sometimes violent opposition to racists is a time-honored American tradition.

Michael McCanne

Class & Inequality

The Last Man to Know Everything

The Marxist-environmental historian Mike Davis has produced a rich corpus critical of capitalism.

Troy Vettese

Science & Nature

The Global Calculus of Climate Disaster

Global capitalism is no longer simply characterized by uneven development, it is characterized by uneven disaster.

Ashley Dawson

Literature & Culture

Inside Every Utopia Is a Dystopia

A new biography of Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the Futurama, tells the story of American innovation.

John Crowley

Politics

Back of the Yards

Lessons from a community organizer on building political power.

Michael Gecan

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Unraveling the Silicon Valley Consensus

Startups aren't the magic bullet for economic growth.

Ben Armstrong

Class & Inequality, Race

From “War on Crime” to War on the Black Community

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.

Elizabeth Hinton

Class & Inequality, Race

Reversal of Fortune

Cities are now playgrounds for the rich, with the poor forced into suburbs.

Claude S. Fischer

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