Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026

By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...

Hegseth’s prayer closely resembled one delivered by Samuel L. Jackson in “Pulp Fiction.”

Why do some citizens feel that political institutions are responsive to people like them, while others do not? Existing research highlights the role of education and income in shaping external poli...

Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that t...

The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Denmark's Minister of Digitalization, Caroline Stage, has announced that the Danish government will start moving away from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. Why? It's not because open-source is better, although I would argue that it is, but because Denm...

ALT: a man is holding a flute and says i do not avoid women but i do deny them my essence

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.

“The tactics being pioneered in Gaza –blackouts, attacks with impunity– risk becoming the new normal,” says Pulitzer Prize winner Azmat Khan.

Republican Governor Greg Abbott said Texas “wears the crown as the bitcoin mining capital of the world.” But in small towns like Granbury, working-class residents living next to giant data centers are...

The White House has confirmed a journalist was inadvertently added to a chat where national security officials discussed a military strike.

Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 03/15/2025 · 32m