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This week marks eight decades since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, devastating the two cities, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, and ...
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Our 50th anniversary issue, featuring longtime contributors, newer voices in the magazine, and classics from our archive.
Given the history of Israel’s smearing of journalists in Gaza as a precursor to assassinating them, the Committee to Protect Journalists publicly called for al-Sharif’s protection. But on August 10, ...
For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?
To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.
Keep Pride Nude It’s an important part of the fight for a freer society.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald J. Trump The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.
A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.
Bertrand Tavernier’s daring documentary about the Algerian revolution sought to break the silence in France.
The Italian novelist Italo Calvino was unusually optimistic about the invention of a “literature machine.” In his 1967 essay “Cybernetics and Ghosts,” he imagines a computer that would be “capable of ...
Contrary to the boosterism of billionaires, the need for space colonization must be argued for, not assumed. And the arguments aren’t good.