The Australian Football League (AFL) may be confusing for foreigners, but it is one of the nation’s most important contributions to sports. And if there was a documentary that plays to the Australian Football League’s...
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Review of Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent by Kim Bowes (Princeton University Press, 2025) Our image of Rome, with its efficient infrastructures and splendid architectural works, is inextricably linked to the...
When Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced, with the satisfied air of an industrialist surveying demolished competition, that Israeli strikes had destroyed around 70 percent of Iran’s steel production capacity, he was not describing a...
In the seventeenth month of a student-led mass movement in Serbia, the death of a student at the Faculty of Philosophy triggered an orchestrated attack on the University of Belgrade by the country’s government-police-tabloid complex....
On the morning of February 23, 2026, Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald Trump from Jerusalem with intelligence that would change the course of their war on Iran. Senior Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself,...
The following excerpt is adapted from The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow (Verso, 2026). We live in an age in which...
Review of Transcription by Ben Lerner (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026) In a short story called “Wireless,” published in Scribner’s in 1901, Rudyard Kipling described “a glass tube” with “two tiny silver plugs, and between...
How does a socialist mayor, elected as a consummate outsider, actually govern once elected in the face of pressures from all sides? It’s a question many heads of US cities, from Schenectady mayor George Lunn...
Ever since Viktor Orbán’s far-right Fidesz party came to power with a sweeping supermajority in 2010, Hungary’s democratic institutions have faced constant pressure. Orbán called his victory a “revolution in the ballot box” and proceeded...
In the ongoing dispute between Donald Trump and the Federal Reserve, the Supreme Court has strongly indicated that it will side with the Fed. It is now abundantly clear that the conservative justices want to...
March Madness is over, spring is here, and Morrisania, a neighborhood in the Bronx, is getting a resurfaced basketball court. The Lower East Side in Manhattan is getting a water fountain repaired, Sunset Park in...
Last month, after thirteen months of negotiations with the nation’s largest elected school board, public school educators in Los Angeles announced a strike deadline. If the district doesn’t agree to a new contract by April...
