How finance facilitated China's authoritarian takeover of Hong Kong

Are trees worth more standing or chopped down as wood? From Marx’s analysis of wood theft to carbon credit programs, the value of forests as assets continues to shift.

Triage and the consultant-ethicist in for-profit healthcare

Of course there are crypto memoirs. But how do they theorize history?

When the right deploys cringe to control trans assimilation, trans people cringe at each other.

When dreams reproduce images we see online, dreams become as easy to recreate and share as a meme. The subreddit r/thomastheplankengine is dedicated to doing just that

Growing food and getting free in a world built for agricultural capital

As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft

Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism

Viral manifestation logics imagine that everyone else is an NPC

A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order

Every Korean person I know who has died has died during the Korean War

Affluent white havens are not models of accountability

Cyrus Dunham’s debut memoir, A Year Without A Name, tells the story of his gender transition. He slowly allows himself to embody a gender other…

How to escape the cop kettles on the streets and in our spirits

The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin