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Daniel Felsenthal

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July 25

The Executioner

Daisuke Shen

Don’t look away, please look away.

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Fools Russian

Will McDonald

“It’s my great misfortune to have left one dying empire for another.”

July 23

No Justice, No Shade

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On the radical possibilities of shade.

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Deadly Slop

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Militarized AI is billed as an expedient war machine—though its effect is often anything but.

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The Annexation of the West Bank Is Complete

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October 7 demolished the last restraints on Israel’s annexation of the West Bank.

March 19, 2025

Guilt by Association

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The crackdown on pro-Palestine speech.

January 29, 2025

A Ceasefire Is Not Enough

Tariq Kenney-Shawa

This period of taking stock is not just for Palestinians. It’s a reckoning for all of us.

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Current issue, no. 79

Brawl for All

Sean Nam

How clout chasers ruined boxing

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Jess McAllen

Are medicine’s middlemen pharmacy parasites?

Humping Iron

Petra Browne

The secret network of sleaze underwriting female bodybuilding

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What Chicago needed was a social autopsy.

Heat Wave

Eric Klinenberg

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A day of revelations at Orlando’s Christian theme park.

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Noelle Mateer

“This is why I don’t fly.”

July 21

Reject Transgender Liberalism

Jules Gill-Peterson

The trans movement must change legal and political course.

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Plucking, Primping, and Politicking

Aaron Timms

Eric Adams leads the Big Apple from the beautician’s chair.

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Noelle Mateer

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Noelle Mateer

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An inflatable pilot shown in the cockpit of an aircraft.

July 21

Reject Transgender Liberalism

Jules Gill-Peterson

The trans movement must change legal and political course.

July 17

Plucking, Primping, and Politicking

Aaron Timms

Eric Adams leads the Big Apple from the beautician’s chair.

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Alien Enemies

Brandon Shimoda

Japanese American incarceration's ghastly redux

July 8

The Uneasy Oligarchy

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New barbarians are at the gate

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Gimme Boer

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The United States’ long love affair with Afrikaners

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Worker’s Song

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The challenges of organizing the music industry

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“Everything in America is about genocide.”

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