- Industry, Ingenuity, and Fracture: on John McPhee
- “The streets are just asphalt in this northwest corner of Turkey, but all roads to Europe go through
- Edirne. From a historian’s perspective, they always have.”
- Syria, ISIS and the Kurds: Turkey’s Changing Positions in a Region of Uncertainties
- LGBT Crackdown in Turkey: The Perils of Visibility
- “In the less affluent parts of the city, fire hydrants are a fantastically economical way to cool down.”
- Gay Hanging in Iran: Atrocities and Impersonations
- Breaking Up With White Jesus
- Urban Gardening in Greece: A New Form of Protest
- “The question of when to evacuate is one of the biggest challenges for volcanic disaster mitigation.”
- How a Small-Time Drug Dealer Rescued Dozens During Katrina
- What’s Up in Turkish and Ottoman Studies: New Books in 2015
- “As a black woman who writes short stories, I'm not playing odds so much as attempting to defy invisibility with every submission I make.”
- Horse Skull Disco
- Death of a Young Black Journalist
- Jennifer Pan's Revenge
- How Hot Chicken Really Happened
- The Last Days of Kathy Acker
- The Collected Alexander Chee
- The Real Teens of Silicon Valley
- Gentrification in New Orleans
- This Woman Gets Students Accused of Rape Back In School
- Dry Bones Breathe
- The Invention of Whiteness (audio)
- Lived Economies of Default: Consumer Credit, Debt Collection, and the Capture of Affect (audio)
- Uber and the Lawlessness of "Sharing Economy" Corporates
- Trade Unionism, Digital Labor, and the Sharing Economy
- Salon.com Recognizes Union
- Belabored Podcast #82: Labor Rising in New Media (audio)
- Google Express Workers May Unionize
- The Future of Work in the Uber Economy
- Uber and Airbnb Now Make the Rules, but to Whose Benefit?
- Instaserfs: Precarious Employment in the Old and New Economy
- When your self driving car crashes, you could still be the one who get sued
- Bursting the Optimistic Technology Bubble
- We have the left and right all wrong
"I am not well."
- A response to Naomi Wolf
- How the Paris Communards made their lives luxurious
- Collective Conscience
- Britain didn’t fight the second world war — the British empire did
- Lithuania and Nazis
- Ta ta, Bahubali. I'd Much Rather Be Jejamma.
- Living Lab Cleaning Up Blackstone River Naturally
- Between the Lines
- Upon This Rock
- The Role of the Communist Party in the British Anti-Racist movement
- Why Aren't There More Women Futurists?
- Dry Bones Breathe
- Different Drums: Embracing the Strange
- An 'Iranian Vampire Movie' Is One of the Best Films of the Year.
- Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability
- Lithuanian prosecutes Jews who fought the Nazis.
- The Death of Jewish Culture
- Corporate nullification
- Why universities should ban the box and accept more felons
- "a strategy eerily similar to that of the anti-gay vigilantes the patrol was in part founded to combat."
- Recent radio about archival sources: This American Life a Girl Guides diary and a slave auction description [1:01:35], RadioLab onthe Mau Mau Rebellion [44:28], The Memory Palace on an Italian woman who fell in love with a Zulu man in New York [10:50]
- Nostalia-tinted 8-bit animated gifs of everyday Japanese life
- UC Berkeley drops health coverage for families
- "UAW 2865 is the first local to explicitly call for disassociation between police unions and the rest of organized labor."
- "Social workers and teachers don’t fire bullets into the hearts and heads of unarmed people, or impose brute order when social unrest proves too acute for less coercive pacification."
- The killing of Samuel DuBose follows the intensification of policing at University of Cincinnati
- Three other black men have been killed by University of Cincinnati police since 1997
- University of Cincinnati police, like campus cops around the country, are forces of gentrification
- Colleges didn't have their own police forces until administrators pushed for them after the student protests of the 1960s
- I am not well
- The firing of Steven Salaita, one year later
- Academic freedom among the Very Serious People
- Time to de-confederatize the US history textbook