Charlie Dulik on the past and future of tenant organizing
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The Long Fight for Tenant Power | Charlie Dulik
More than a third of the US population rent their homes. The number of tenants in the country is growing fast—nearly triple the rate of homeowner...
Xi Jinping’s father had been purged for “help[ing] the daughter of an old friend who was writing a sensitive novel,” Ian Johnson writes. “Perhaps his son [Xi Jinping] has decided that these were mistakes and to pursue instead much more focused and ruthless policies.”
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Lessons of the Father | Ian Johnson
New biographies of Xi Zhongxun and Hu Yaobang provide insights into the opaque culture of the Chinese Communist Party and the political ascent of X...
“Muslims in the US are among the most culturally, ethnically, and racially diverse in the world,” writes Aida Alami. The American imams who lead them “serve a community that [has] arguably never needed them more.”
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The New Imams | Aida Alami
For years I have been working on a documentary film about young Muslims in France, centered on the 2017 trial that convicted a police officer of ki...
“The simplicity of Sheila Heti’s prose effaces much of its craft in a similar way, and this illusion of effortlessness is a major source of its pleasure: it makes us feel as though we could capture the world as easily.” —Lola Seaton
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Incorrigible Nudity | Lola Seaton
The illusion of effortlessness is a major source of the pleasure of Sheila Heti’s work: it makes us feel as though we could capture the world as ...
“Merely restoring public health funding as it existed before Trump is not enough…. Federal public health agencies, including the CDC and NIOSH, should not just be reestablished but expanded.” —Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler
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The Dismantling of American Health Care | Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler
On July 4 President Donald Trump signed into law a piece of legislation that amounts to a declaration of war on the working-class and the sick. The...
“AIs don’t ‘write’ essays or anything else—the use of that verb shows how easily we anthropomorphize,” James Gleick writes. “As plagiarists, they obscure and randomize their sources but do not transcend them.”
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The Parrot in the Machine | James Gleick
The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.
Joyce Carol Oates on the literally toxic origins of serial killers
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Death in the Air | Joyce Carol Oates
In Murderland, Caroline Fraser traces the correlations between rapacious industrial pollution and sadistic serial killers.
David Shulman on the second Nakba, now in full gear in the West Bank
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Netanyahu’s War | David Shulman
Engineering a second Nakba and annexing the occupied territories are integral parts of Netanyahu’s war against the State of Israel’s democratic...
“The simple willingness to be dishonorable destabilizes everything American power affects, instilling anxiety on every side…. Instability, shrewdly managed, is a great multiplier of power.” —Marilynne Robinson
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Notes from an Occupation | Marilynne Robinson
America is an occupied country, ruled by partisans hostile to democracy.
Ursula Lindsey on Mohamed Choukri’s hardscrabble life in the margins of Tangier
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The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag | John Washington
The Terrorism Confinement Center was designed to be a black hole. When Nayib Bukele’s flagship “megaprison”—known as CECOT, after its Spanish