Is Complicity Now the Entry Fee for Critique? Is Complicity Now the Entry Fee for Critique?
A new app brings clarity to an old situation: the collaboration between journalism and capitalism.
Oct 29, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Long-Acting Contraception Makes Teen Pregnancy Rates Plummet. So Why Are Some Women Still Skeptical? Long-Acting Contraception Makes Teen Pregnancy Rates Plummet. So Why Are Some Women Still Skeptical?
The history of birth control in America is littered with instances of coercion. Reproductive-justice advocates don’t want to see that happen again.
Oct 28, 2015 / Feature / Dani McClain
How Climate Change Is Threatening Iraq’s Fragile Security How Climate Change Is Threatening Iraq’s Fragile Security
A major drought in Syria helped lead to the revolution and Assad’s crackdown. Harsh weather in Iraq could prove just as destabilizing.
Oct 27, 2015 / John Knefel
What’s It Like Growing Old in the New Economy? What’s It Like Growing Old in the New Economy?
Danish architect Deane Simpson explores this vexing question in his book Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society.
Oct 27, 2015 / Matthew Shen Goodman
October 27, 1904: The New York City Subway System Opens October 27, 1904: The New York City Subway System Opens
“The bearing of this upon social conditions can hardly be overestimated.”
Oct 27, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Trey Gowdy Sent an Intellectually Disabled Man to Death Row Trey Gowdy Sent an Intellectually Disabled Man to Death Row
As a South Carolina district attorney, Gowdy pushed to put Fredrick Evins on death row, even though evidence emerged during the trial that Evins is intellectually disabled.
Oct 26, 2015 / Spencer Woodman
Demand a Federal Investigation of Exxon’s Climate-Change Deception Demand a Federal Investigation of Exxon’s Climate-Change Deception
Exxon-Mobil has spent years promoting skepticism of climate change—a position that runs contrary to the company's own research.
Oct 26, 2015 / NationAction
Humanism, Science, and the Radical Expansion of the Possible Humanism, Science, and the Radical Expansion of the Possible
Why we shouldn’t let neuroscience banish mystery from human life.
Oct 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Marilynne Robinson
Something Important Seeping Out of the World Something Important Seeping Out of the World
Films about mourning and illness, and some worthy commercial fare, dominated this year’s New York Film Festival.
Oct 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Self as Sovereign Self as Sovereign
Where do we get the notion of mind as separate from body?
Oct 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Emily Wilson