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Privacy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
An “unholy alliance” of state and private industry threatens to undermine democracy and individual autonomy.
Remembering James Baldwin
Explore the ideas, influence, and legacy of this extraordinary American writer.
How to Avert Climate Catastrophe
Acknowledging the immediacy of global warming does not mean succumbing to despair.
Human Rights and Their Discontents
Advocacy of human rights has a long history on the left, but does it have a future?
A Very Short History of Freedom and Violence
An anti-imperialism reading list for July 4th.
Reproductive Justice After <em>Roe</em>
As Roe is struck down by the Supreme Court, we bring together recent and archival essays to assess what is at stake—and how we might move from reproductive rights to reproductive justice.
No Struggle, No Progress
A Juneteenth reading list on racial capitalism, resistance, and remaking the world.
White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream
Contemporary gun violence is not so much terrorism as tradition. It is deeply intertwined with the white supremacist foundations of the United States.
Where Egalitarianism Went Wrong
—and what it still has to offer. A reading list on equality, Rawls, and the struggle for a more just world.
MLK’s Conservative Canonization
“Forget the dream, he called for a revolution.” An MLK Day reading list on how his radicalism was erased.
