- Why We Oppose Votes for Men
- Backlash Against Oakland's Rebranding by Realtors
- How Prisons Change the Balance of Power in America
- Snowden sans Greenwald
- Democracy Now! interview with Costa-Gavras
- Budget Cuts Destroyed the Great Library at Alexandria
- 5Pointz Is Being Destroyed to Make Way for Condos
- Why are Americans allowed to be more cowardly than others?
- Northrop Grumman's semi-autonomous machine gun robot named MADSS; why not MaddAdamm?
- Welcome to the drone zone.
- "Bad-boy installations reeking of transgression but not actually transgressing much."
- NIST gist? Cryptographers hissed.
- 33,900 UHNWI's have more than $100 million; two-thirds of adults in the world have under $10,000 of net wealth each.
- Big data discrimination; don't think you can hide.
- Undercover police all over NYC.
- Federal procurement regs & the exchanges in PPACA.
- Prepare for Halloween.
- 'A herd of pigs were seen in the evening of Oct.10 swimming across the Bosphorus by the locals of the Rumeli Kava??.'
- 'This is for sniffing. Great for around dead bodies, smelly buses, or just to enjoy'
- 'You can pay $2,000 to live undercover as a homeless person in Seattle with a tour guide for three days.'
- 'I played me. I challenged myself. I beat me in a very close game.'
- 'you know how sometimes you’re writing a poem / and at the same time children in india are starving'
- 'The lesson is that we are all the crazy ones here. We are all Gregor Samsa, we are all Tan Mom.'
- 'You get s--t done, you go on the boat, you catch fish and you eat it.
- “I hate Beirut,” she says simply.
- What does it mean to be Jewish?
- Can we have good culturally specific theater?
- The erasure of the Afro's politics
- The 19th century roots of prison gerrymandering
- How the labor movement lost its bank
- Bad omens for the moderate center-left
- Building civil society and hyperlocal news after disaster
- The history of the portmanbro
- Edward Said interviewed by Salman Rushdie (and transcript)
- Review of "Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity" by Mahmood Mamdani
- China Miéville on monsters
- The Ottomans in the Gulf
- Historical relations between Indian and Russian Orthodox Christians
- Vision and Viscosity in Goa's Psychedelic Trance Scene
- The tradition of anthropomorphising animals in children's books
- Thoughts on Bharati, a unified alphabet for Indian languages
- Thoughts on Gulf Pidgin Arabic
- What did Proto-Indo-European sound like?
- The misguided Sanskritization of Hindi
- "For Stalin, editing was a passion that extended well beyond the realm of published texts"
- Haroon Khalid on Pakistan's religious minorities
- "My family made the pen that wrote the Constitution of India"
- Eve of the Qur'an, Eve of the Bible
- 1973 guide to the Hippie Trail
- Science and the Improvement of Indigo Dye in Colonial India
- Prologue to "Beirut" by Samir Kassir
- The history of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline
- Death in Armutlu
- “Icons of modernity, dams are man-made grafts in nature, they are insertions that propagate technological landscapes.”
- Pepper Spray and Penguins: Analysis of Turkey's Social Media-fueled Gezi Protests
- Falaan, Falaan, Falaan: How Urdu’s Farsi Fetish Got The Chop in India
- Gezi Resistance, Police Violence, and Turkey’s Accession to the European Union
- “With its straightness and angularity, naskh is simply easier to code, because unlike nastaliq, it doesn’t move vertically and doesn’t have dots adhering to a strict pattern.”
- Mapping Babel: A Sixteenth-Century Indigenous Map from Mexico
- “Every text is, to some extent, a bafflement to its translator.”
- Computer Programming Used To Be Women’s Work
- “Introducing the rapidly evolving face of Arabic science fiction literature.”
- Obamacare and the Conscience of a Radical
- “So Rachel Jeantel spoke the language she knew with conviction, because it is exhausting having to assert that your life has value…”
- Alice Munro: “There was a feeling that women could write about the freakish, the marginal.”
- Reading Lines in the Earth Like Lines in a Book
- “At first, the drowning men and women were mistaken for seagulls.”
- This Is Not a Post About Discovering Science
- Breaking away: Top public universities push for "autonomy" from states
- Grad students make up 15% of the students in higher ed but account for 32% of the student debt
- The JPMorgan PhD
- After MOOCs
- "a language is a dialect with an army"
- On standardized tests, rich kids do the best and poor kids do the worst
- The dangers of "Pay It Forward" programs
- Interview with an adjunct organizer
- Upstairs, downstairs at the University of Chicago
- Tenure-track and adjunct faculty unite at University of Oregon
- Profiting from education reform in Mexico
- For those considering law school, by Dean Spade [pdf]
- Notes toward an abolitionist antiracism
- women's bodies were the war zone: Kenya's post-election violence
- oil pipelines threaten democracies and the planet
- sanitizing the truth: when clean water interventions fail
- sex work, moral panic, migration, anti-trafficking
- we have poetry / so we do not die of history
- power, pleasure and the frigid male
- how Flannery O'Connor did money
- the queer art of whistle-blowing