Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

Down a tree-lined street near my grandmother’s house in Tehran is a mosque where locals go to chat, rest, and sometimes even pray. In the back of the mosque, behind a small library, is an office for a ...

Alex Shams is a writer and anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, The New Republic, and elsewhere. A political and literary forum, ...

A new common sense has emerged regarding the perils of predictive algorithms. As the groundbreaking work of scholars like Safiya Noble, Cathy O’Neil, Virginia Eubanks, and Ruha Benjamin has shown, big ...

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This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...

This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...

Interns gain exposure to the world of magazine publishing by assisting with fact checking, proofreading, submissions evaluation, web and newsletter production, and other engagement and administrative ...

This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...

This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...

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American cities have famously become fronts in the war on terrorism. This is not only—indeed not even primarily—because terrorists struck the twin towers in New York and are likely to continue to ...