Down a tree-lined street near my grandmother’s house in Tehran is a mosque where locals go to chat, rest, and sometimes even pray. In the back of the mosque, behind a small library, is an office for a ...

Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

In an interview in May, the head of the Israeli military intelligence’s targeting division responded to outrage over the civilian death toll in Gaza by boasting that algorithmic surveillance systems ...

As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, ...

Interns gain exposure to the world of magazine publishing by assisting with fact checking, proofreading, submissions evaluation, web and newsletter production, and other engagement and administrative ...

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Keeping Markets in Their Place I am grateful to the discussants for their thoughtful responses. The two libertarians, Matt Welch and John Tomasi, worry that keeping markets in their place violates ...

Tobias Hübinette is a Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University. He is a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo) and was previously responsible for the Forte-funded Research Network for ...

This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...

Farnoosh Fathi is the author of Great Guns (Canarium, 2013), editor of Joan Murray: Drafts, Fragments, and Poems (NYRB Poets, 2018) and founder of the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance ...