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Protesters have taken to the streets to make their voices heard in huge numbers across the globe this year. According to data published by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) project, June 2025...

In his 2001 horror classic Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa portrays the internet as a space of dark enchantment, a portal for evil spirits to invade the world of the living. Cloud, a new thriller which sees...

Review of Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025) James Baldwin has become the literary pinup of a generation. In 2025, he is everywhere: his most famous quotations stamped on...

Bolivians head to the polls on Sunday amid a spiraling economic crisis and the total collapse of the Movement Toward Socialism. A right-wing victory could bring neoliberal austerity back to Bolivia, unleashing a new cycle...

Since World War II, Germany and its people have had to address their forefathers’ participation in the emblematic evil of modern times, the Holocaust. Coming to terms with their Nazi ancestors’ crimes became a major...

A new generation of architects around the world is adapting brutalism to modern times. Neobrutalism is not just a resurgence, but leading toward an ecological development of the polarizing architectural style. For several years now,...

As Donald Trump pushes to dismantle electric vehicle (EV) incentives and roll back California’s EV mandate, the struggle over what powers personal transportation has become both an economic and cultural war. American automakers are pulling...

Major social upheavals are typically accompanied by similar upheavals in the dominant ideas in society. This is as true of science as of other ideological spheres. The English Revolution of 1642–49, a key event in...

Each stage of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza highlights a new atrocity, almost as if the previous one has fallen prey to media fatigue. Lately it has been an acute lack of food. The intentional...

If there was ever an author who screamed “the great American novelist,” it’s Cormac McCarthy. From 1965’s The Orchard Keeper to the twinned publication of The Passenger with its companion novel, Stella Marris, shortly before...

Stephanie Coontz That’s a really tough question. But as women and as people who are critics of hierarchical gender and class arrangements, we have to find ways to acknowledge the messages men have received about...

“We know there are more students at Columbia and other universities across the country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, antisemitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it.” Recent official and institutional claims...