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Night Picnic

The last humans on a planet attempt a nice family outing—except that they can’t remember how. A short story from Japanese counterculture icon Izumi Suzuki, available for the first time in English in a new translation by Sam Bett.

Izumi Suzuki, Sam Bett

Editors' Note

Black Voices in the Public Sphere: A Fellowship for Emerging Media Professionals

Announcing a fellowship to prepare and support the next generation of Black journalists, editors, and publishers.

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

With Gay Adoption Decision, Will the Supreme Court Erode the Regulatory State?

On the surface, Fulton v. Philadelphia poses a question about religious conscience—but its proponents hope it will enable conservatives to pick and choose which laws they have to follow.

Joanna Wuest, Briana Last

Class & Inequality, Politics

The New Politics of Higher Education

Why the left’s turn from higher education has coincided with a newfound conservative appreciation for it.

Marshall Steinbaum

Arts in Society

Women Who Fly: Nona Hendryx and Afrofuturist Histories

A Sun Ra tribute concert by a member of the pathbreaking pop group Labelle leads to reflections on how Black women artists and scientists have often been at the vanguard of their disciplines—though most are still awaiting due recognition.

Class & Inequality, Politics

“Marx’s Old Mole is Right Beneath the Surface”

Noam Chomsky on his new book, the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the prospects for progress under Biden.

Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Congress Could Legislate ‘Roe v. Wade’ and Still Fail Women

‘Roe v. Wade’ only guaranteed the right to patients’ privacy. A federal abortion law would need to go so much further.

Rachel Rebouché

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Why Democracy Needs Privacy

The more someone knows about us, the more they can influence us. We can wield democratic power only if our privacy is protected.

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

The Violent Embrace

The Atlanta shooter comes from a culture that connects Asian women to sex and violence. It has its origins in U.S. wars—particularly the Korean War—and is fueled by our continued military presence in Asia.

Global Justice

How We Speak About the Failure of the PLO

A recent Foreign Affairs article gets history wrong and obscures a robust Palestinian discourse.

Science & Nature

Medicine for the People

As more and more doctors awaken to the political determinants of health, the U.S. medical profession needs a deeper vision for the ethical meanings of care.

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On

Failures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism.

Class & Inequality

Time Is the Universal Measure of Freedom

How Latin America Reimagined Classical Economics

The New Politics of Higher Education

Marshall Steinbaum

The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On

“Marx’s Old Mole is Right Beneath the Surface”

Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

COVID-19 Provides All the More Reason to Tax the Rich

Mark Engler, Andrew Elrod

A More Perfect Meritocracy

The Gadfly of American Plutocracy

Simon Torracinta

What We Still Get Wrong About Alexander Hamilton

Christian Parenti, Michael Busch

Science & Nature

An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine

Bram Wispelwey, Michelle Morse

From the Editors: Redesigning AI

Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen

This Veil of Smoke

Use Sunlight or Lose It

David McDermott Hughes

New Book: Redesigning AI

Medicine for the People

Redesigning AI

The Politics of the Anthropocene in a World After Neoliberalism

The Quest to Tell Science from Pseudoscience

Michael D. Gordin

READING LISTS

Poetry Collection: Empathy

READING LIST

The second in our series of reading lists to celebrate National Poetry Month 2021.

Poetry Collection: Belonging

READING LIST

The first in our series of reading lists to celebrate National Poetry Month 2021.

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