The Anger of the Sick
The dismissals and disparities of the US healthcare system become grounds for a militant call to transform care in a new memoir, Blackfishing the IUD.
Scents of an Ending
...presence. Infighting began almost immediately, which should not have come as a surprise. Those present belonged to a diverse spectrum of political and ideological camps, united despite it all in...
Administrative Remedy
...avenue to the courts, as the Constitution requires. But it just so happens that I've recently completed a year-and-a-half-long experiment documenting how the system actually operates, having gradually mailed out...
Polar Amplifications
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
Autonomy in Kurdistan
...years, such as liberation in culture, art, gender relations, a new democratic perspective, organization of all sections of society on the basis of politics, civil society, and gender. We saw...
Room Boys
...of insanity, somewhat unusual even for a studied Emirates mouthpiece. "You can be forgiven for mistaking the housing cluster near the Abu Dhabi border for a gated residential community," the...
Classics
...bourgeois society is war. Those who want to approach the knowledge held in the academy must also internalize its mechanisms. Some go on to help it reproduce itself, as teachers....
Counterfeit
...only up until it’s recognized on its own merits. Authenticity is not a commodity, but it is a marker of value. Health emerges from “real” food, certified organic and tracked...
The Body in Painlessness
The subversive potential of pain set into motion the forces that created the opioid crisis
Guides for the Perplexed
...is ubiquitous and compelling, university administrators also try to win new students' loyalty with orientation programs, in which several days of social activities with other students and programming from the...
Sunday Reading
...near the Nepal earthquake epicenter West Virginia's continuing water crisis [radio 52:36] Institutions need to protect scholars when they publicly engage. Against shoddy popular history Bint Battuta: The Ten Commandments...
Print on Demand
...with the newness of their archive, especially compared to some of the material they encountered in their research. That weekend, we handled 18th century Islamic manuscripts and 20th century leftist...
Making Again, Making Against
...African rand, Botswana pula, British pound sterling, Indian rupee, euro, Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, and Australian dollar. This system hasn’t restored trust in Zimbabwe’s monetary systems, though; there is persistent...
Sorry, Ladies: No World Hair Cup for Women
...remarkable. Compare the actual "Group of Hair Death" ballot with a prospective ballot featuring those countries' female national players: Why would this be, when, generally speaking,...