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The best teaching is always intimate. Today's universities make it difficult to talk about that.

Our best writing from our archives on why torture is not the same thing as interrogation.

Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment. To prevent both sexual and state-inflicted abuse, we must embrace restorative justice.

Integration doesn’t guarantee equality or freedom.

Lucia Moholy helped create the visual language of the Bauhaus, but when she fled the Nazis her work was stolen by Walter Gropius. With interest renewed by the Bauhaus centennial, will she finally receive recognition?

While economists enshrine Hong Kong as the ideal free market, the social consequences of its neoliberal policies have been disastrous.

An interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin on the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the future of environmental politics.

Ensuring a COVID-19 vaccine is available to all makes both moral and economic sense.

A number of countries have linked their recovery from war with gender equality initiatives. But these interventions can also be used to pursue a politics of exclusion and marginalization.

Without pressure from social movements, they won’t produce meaningful and deeply needed reform.

In ‘Vineland’, his underappreciated 1990 novel, the author of ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’ anticipated a United States in which security would become the greatest good.

U.S. democracy and the U.S. postal service share a long, entangled history. An attack against one signals an attack against the other

Pestilence and plague have often prompted waves of apocalyptic thinking, calling into question the steady march of progress in human history.

Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.

We talk with David Graeber about why we don’t put babies’ lives ahead of Citibank’s shareholders, and whether we should renew the tradition of debt jubilees.