Painted signs and trash bins have become a visual lexicon of resistance as protesters call for educational reform and an immediate end to police violence.

In the early twentieth century, immigrant anarchists organized across U.S. cities and stood at the center of major labor struggles.

In September 1942, Army Chief Librarian Ray Trautman was on the final leg of a world tour of US installations when he arrived in Australia. Here, his mission was twofold: take the temperature of th…

On the side of a brick building, at the corner of E 7th St and North Arizona Ave, a mural greeted me. This particular block of North Arizona was more of an alley than a street. It was open to cars, wi...

This collection presents the winner of and finalists for the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation.

The Right Stuff / Longing for Weightlessness

As the media unites against him

White House Press Bans, and a Dangerous Media Merger

This is the week that someone pulled the fire alarm on AI. It began with industry employee Jacob Coxon issuing a dire warning: "I resigned from Anthropic today," he wrote on Twitter/X. "I spent the la...

As a result, the majority of Trieste residents these days are native Italian speakers, but in a place where Italian, Germanic and Slavic influence and language all bleed into each other. The geographi...

What’s driving religious fundamentalists, tech accelerationists, and anti-immigrant ethnonationalists to bring about the end of the world?

As more companies turn to AI, they’re hiring freelancers to clean up its mistakes rather than create original work

Trump just unleashed a trade weapon no president has used since Herbert Hoover, and Canada’s retaliation could be the beginning of a global move away from America…

A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai

I spoke to the journalist Gil Durán about his new book, which sheds light on what the tech fascists behind Trump are planning.

photos from the edge 39 - PARIS OF THE STREETS Photographs by David Bacon Paris at one time was the most photographed city in the world.  Th...

Creedence and cool, the prematurity of Greg Tate's death, open questions in "John Wesley Harding," blackface and the return of Jim Crow, and a backstage confrontation

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather

Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.

TRAPPED IN A BAD MARRIAGE

Americans aren't embracing socialism—they're rejecting 45 years of Reaganomics, billionaire rule, and an economy rigged against the middle class…

A few thoughts about writing (and reading) on Substack, two months into my experiment

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.

In Edgar Allan Poe’s 1840 short story “The Man of the Crowd,” an unnamed narrator sits in a café and watches a busy street. He notes small details about the people passing by, and he categorizes th…

From President Trump’s peace prize to the Folarin Balogun saga, the US tournament was the perfect opportunity for Fifa president to impress investors

Too much Bob Dylan, no Chuck Berry, and a door just barely open for the J. Geils Band

Languishing in prison, the manosphere’s favourite misogynist has been abandoned even by Trump. But thanks to him, male discourse around women, consent and empathy has been well and truly poisoned, wri...

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From Zeus to Abraham to modern Iran, Christopher Nolan's film illuminates the timeless warning against turning trust into a weapon…

Trump and Infantino have tried their best to spoil the World Cup, but the joy of the game remains undefeated

What the internet learned from television.

A Netflix spin on the classic children's books is about to launch. It remains to be seen how it compares to the 1970s adaptation – which is much darker and grimmer than most remember.

And a July 4th story from my own immigrant family

Agent Laurence Laluyaux, winner of WWB’s 2026 Ottaway Award, considers the advantages and pitfalls of comp titles.

Court rules against Trump administration on policy that people born in the United States are citizens

A botched reflecting pool renovation, a capitulation to Iran, and an embarrassing spectacle at the Kennedy Center… Will the U.S. president finally give up?

The United States and Israel may have unwittingly revived the Islamic Republic’s “zombie regime.”

Even though an agreement has been reached, nations around the world will be feeling the effects of the Iran war for some time.

The passage of New York's statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing and winning in both blue and red parts of the country.

By Julian Lennon and Tassoula Kokkoris

States are paying billions to subsidize the AI boom