The Exposure Therapy of “A Private Life” The Exposure Therapy of “A Private Life”
In her new film, Jodie Foster transforms into a therapist-detective.
Feb 12, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Lovia Gyarkye
The Deep Harms of Deepfakes The Deep Harms of Deepfakes
AI porn is what happens when technology liberates misogyny from social constraints.
Feb 12, 2026 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Divisions Mamdani Commands Are About to Be Battle-Tested The Divisions Mamdani Commands Are About to Be Battle-Tested
The New York mayor draws flack from the Catholic press, holds his own for now with the NYPD, and will have to twist arms in Albany.
Feb 12, 2026 / D.D. Guttenplan
The Yale Professor Who E-mailed Epstein About a “Small Goodlooking Blonde” Student Is No Longer Teaching The Yale Professor Who E-mailed Epstein About a “Small Goodlooking Blonde” Student Is No Longer Teaching
After outcry from students over e-mails showing David Gelernter’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the computer science professor is under review by the university.
Feb 12, 2026 / StudentNation / Zachary Clifton
The Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier Than Ever to Exploit Farmworkers The Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier Than Ever to Exploit Farmworkers
What is being described as “reform” in Washington will only make the abuse and wage theft that plague the program even worse.
Feb 12, 2026 / Teresa Cotsirilos
Grand Juries Are Saving Democracy Grand Juries Are Saving Democracy
A Washington, DC, panel rejected Jeanine Pirro’s lame attempt to indict six Democratic Congresspersons merely for reminding military and intelligence officials to obey the law.
Feb 11, 2026 / Joan Walsh
Don’t Let Trump Fool You. The Economy Is Bad, and He Is to Blame. Don’t Let Trump Fool You. The Economy Is Bad, and He Is to Blame.
The Trump administration’s efforts to distract from the bad economy just divert attention from one dumpster fire to another.
Feb 11, 2026 / Chris Lehmann
I Fled the US to Escape the Security State. Instead, It Followed Me. I Fled the US to Escape the Security State. Instead, It Followed Me.
My recent detention at Heathrow shows that the architecture of state repression knows no borders.
Feb 11, 2026 / Momodou Taal
What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein
In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy.
Feb 11, 2026 / David Futrelle