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Chandler Dandridge Your question assumes that the brain disease model has taken us away from the moral model. In one sense, of course, it has. The moral model treats drug use as morally wrong and...

Review of The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton (Verso Books, 2025) Andreas Malm and Wim Carton have an enemy, and it’s not “climate deniers.” These authors...

The Federal Reserve closed 2025 by cutting rates by a quarter point for the third time this year. The decision was not unanimous: nine of the board members voted in favor while three voted against...

In twentieth-century Britain, the Mitford name became entangled with the rise of European fascism. On October 6, 1936, the most beautiful of the six sisters, Diana Guinness (née Mitford), married Oswald Mosley — accomplished fencer...

It’s easy to get robbed these days. All a thief might need are the seventeen numbers found on your publicly available banking documents. Just ask Scott Delman. For nearly a year and a half, someone...

Fictional vampires are dark, dangerous, and, crucially, sexy. From Bela Lugosi’s hypnotic stare in the first Dracula film to the tortured emo vibe of Edward Cullen, the silver-skinned heartthrob of Twilight, the undead have often...

On December 17, a court struck down the protest bans imposed after the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu back in March. Weeks earlier, prosecutors had finalized an indictment meant to keep İmamoğlu, the leading...

Zohran Mamdani became the 112th mayor of New York City on New Year’s Day. He followed custom by being legally sworn in at midnight and holding a big public ceremony in the afternoon. Anyone who...

The late Aijaz Ahmad was a voice that could not be ignored. He was a literary critic, poet, and translator, a representative of the last truly Indo-Pak generation of revolutionary intellectuals, and a figure steeped...

Just weeks before the American military operation in Venezuela to capture President Nicolás Maduro, the US energy giant Halliburton filed an unusual lawsuit in international court claiming the Venezuelan government owed them damages for US sanctions against the country. A...

In the depths of a winter night, US airborne forces scream over Caribbean waters. Jets rain fire on key infrastructure, while attack helicopters deliver raiding parties of special operatives to targets on the ground. Amid...

We’ve been here before when it comes to the Trump administration’s attempts to force a political transition in Venezuela. In 2019 and 2020, the Trump administration attempted to engineer such a change through pressure, spectacle,...