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Writing won’t make you a living

April 8

Cloud Control

Brian J. Chen, Jai Vipra

The struggle between the White House and Anthropic raises public questions of private power.

April 7

Frothing Mad

Max Kiefel

Radicalized by the betrayal of a meritocratic promise.

April 3

Papers, Please

Michael McGrady Jr.

Age verification laws harm sex workers.

Israel and Palestine in Context

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February 10, 2026

I’m Not Done with You

Mary Turfah

If bodies keep a score, Israel uses the Palestinian body to say it is winning.

October 1, 2025

Given This Reality

Mary Turfah

What comes together can come apart.

August 26, 2025

For Betar or Worse

Hannah Gais

There are distressingly few paths to challenging Canary Mission and Betar.

August 20, 2025

What Do I Have in Common with Jews?

Avi Ackermann

Judaism brings inherited obligation, not hereditary talent.

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From the Magazine

Current issue, no. 83

We’re Still Here?

Henry Rees-Sheridan

Where the Welsh are going

Warfare in a Box

Benjamin Fogel

Executive Outcomes and the making of the modern mercenary

Neverending Stories

J.W. McCormack

On the continuation novel

From the Archives

Starbucks used to think it could change the world for the better—despite abundant evidence to the contrary.

Baristas of the Brave New Data State

Aaron Miguel Cantú

December 2016

The life and spiritual death of the phonebanker.

Beggar’s Opera

Matt Hanson

March 2019

Latest

April 2

The Crisis Response Trap

Eric Reinhart

Naming an emergency while protecting the status quo.

March 31

Think Nothing of It

Webb Wright

Nothing is inevitable about the future of AI.

March 26

Known Horrors

Felipe De La Hoz

We need not distract from known horrors with conspiracism.

The Crisis Response Trap

Eric Reinhart

April 02

The Crisis Response Trap

Eric Reinhart

April 02

A large billboard in the shape of a police officer holding a stop sign.

March 31

Think Nothing of It

Webb Wright

Nothing is inevitable about the future of AI.

March 26

Known Horrors

Felipe De La Hoz

We need not distract from known horrors with conspiracism.

Online

March 20

La Vida Loca

Martin Dolan

Jaime Hernandez’s punk alt-comic epic Locas

March 19

Past the Firewall

Jaime Chu

A conversation with Yi-Ling Liu

March 18

Clinging to a Scheme

Josef Burton

This war is not a means to one end

March 18

Troubled Salt Waters

Kyle Paoletta

Can we build a usable politics of restoration?

March 17

Stop Building Now!

Reinier de Graaf

Rising home prices are not the result of scarcity

March 12

Situational Unawareness

Tyler McBrien

Open source intelligence isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Poems

March

Arc Length

Emily Gordon

From issue no. 83

March

Low Flight

Wang Jibing

From issue no. 83

March

Can you believe this notice

Robert Frost, Stacy Skolnik

From issue no. 83

Fiction

March 31

Detachment

Lauren Rothery

No alternatives were considered.

March 27

Dan and Daisy

Chris Drangle

Don’t get me wrong. I also want to kill you.

March 13

The Dwarf with the Ear

María Elísabet Bragadóttir

Our ideas about time are empty conjectures.

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