Mamdani’s Plan to Cut City Spending: Ask Workers Nicely

Tuesday Poem

Lean In—to Other People

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

Perceptions

Towards an AI for Africa

Is Democratic Socialism Going National?

Archives: August/September 2026

These Cameras Save Lives. But Some Want Them Banned

Prospective Legal Challenges to Trump's Section 338 Tariffs Against Canada

Paul Celan met Martin Heidegger three times, an improbable pairing of Holocaust survivor and Nazi sympathizer

Mamdani’s New Program Could Talk Tenants into Trouble

Homeland Security Is Spending $1 Billion on 'Autonomous' Border Surveillance Towers

Who's Paying for the Discounts in Mamdani's City-Run Grocery Stores?

Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas

Mario Vargas Llosa spent decades exposing the seductions of ideology. Then he proved susceptible to a new one

With age, Auden's brilliance on the page grew ever more estranged from his unwashed, drug-and-drink addled private existence

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

Open Thread

"We Do Not Know Why Attorney Cole Feels Compelled to Rush out Obviously Flawed Filings, but This Must Stop" + $15K Sanction

What we lost when we lost the video store clerk: The quirky sensibility of the movie geek has been replaced by the algorithm