Factory-farmed likes rely on a global hierarchy that determines whose feelings count as real

The beauty industry may exploit a potent mix of hope and desperation, but we should always want women to want more.

By 1978, the contours of a widely shared, anti-imperialist platform had started to blur. And the radical possibilities of the figure cut by Muhammad Ali--the figure of the Muslim International--were starting to recede.

A vibrant vision of radically inclusive blackness resolves when movement leaders imagine freedom and autonomy for black people of all marginalized identities and not just for themselves

Smart houses may usher in a leisurely world for some and more work for others

When the banality of workplace organizing is the best weapon against the banality of evil

The idea of the clique is used to destroy female intimacy in adulthood

Everyone can tell you what Pan-Africanism stands for… when it is juxtaposed with the West. But no one seems to know what Pan-Africanism means when it is self-referential. And the solidarity consciousness is dying, leaving behind a network that exists solely to protect rich, powerful men.

We Are Your Friends is not our youth, but it might as well be

On translating and playing with the Uses of Life.

Recent neuroscientific findings have lent new credence to this fundamental Freudian psychoanalytic concept as well as to the therapeutic value of psychedelics in dealing with it

Greatly influential on Western impressions of India, the ancient greeting namaste has since been exploited by that country’s tourism industry for the purpose of attracting Western visitors, who have been sold on the idea that their impressions will be made real by compliant natives

What makes conservative retro farming simulators so popular?

Content mills turn out listicles and articles inviting us to assess our mental condition — and share it. When the mechanisms of social media tempt us to self-diagnose for attention, how can we tell when we are really afflicted?

A new exhibit cops to state-sanctioned murder, but not vulnerability