Events of the past decade have prompted frenzied discussion of the state of democracy across the globe. In countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia—as well as, of course, in the United ...
The month is May 1916. In southern Galicia, now Ukraine, on the Eastern Front of World War I, a twenty-seven-year-old Austrian volunteers for duty in an observation post exposed to enemy gunfire. He ...
On October 1, China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to celebrate. The country looks starkly different from the war-torn and impoverished nation the Chinese Communist Party took ...
I left Beirut in 2006, a month after graduating from medical school. In July that year, war had erupted, or rather been renewed, between Hezbollah and Israel following a cross-border raid by Hezbollah ...
Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion Naomi Braine Verso, $24.95 (paper) Like many women at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2024 Biennial, I ...
AI can be used to increase human productivity, create jobs and shared prosperity, and protect and bolster democratic freedoms—but only if we modify our approach.
What Big Tech has done to our institutional and infrastructural imagination. It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.