We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...

I was alone in a dyke bar we’d traversed before

In the republic of poetry,

We speak with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil about his new memoir, No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention. It details his 104 days of detention inside a Louisiana ICE jail after he was targete...

He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States

The 2026 Right Livelihood Awards were announced on Wednesday in Stockholm, Sweden. The award is widely known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. The winners include Jalila Haider, a human rights lawyer wh...

“Artificial” makes it sound fake, he said. So the word had to go.

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In Louisiana, a 36-year-old immigrant from Costa Rica died last week inside the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield. According to ICE, Carlos Josué Marchena Marchena was declared dead after he was f...

The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

ART SICK | Issue 1 is the inaugural issue of the online poetry publication from The Poetry Lab featuring contemporary poetry, prose poetry, hybrid writing, and experimental work. This curated collecti...

News organizations CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing the Trump administration over the banning of their reporters from the White House on Friday. Their credentials were confiscated or deactivated whe...

Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...

Sarah Jones has been described as “a one-woman global village” for her remarkable one-person, multi-character shows. The Tony- and Obie Award-winning writer and performer is best known for her Broadwa...

“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for. … ...

When I said three years ago that egg companies were using the avian flu as cover to price-gouge, Fox News called me craz

My name is Nina Rachel and I am managing this campaign on behalf of my friend Asma... a writer, scholar, and an artist from Gaza...

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Joint pain, high sugar

Top U.S. military leaders have reportedly advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against extending the war in Iran because ongoing operations in the Middle East have degraded the Pentagon’s ability to...

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Young apple seeds, In blue skies, radiating young breast, Not in blue-suited insects, Infesting society’s garments.

I've walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don't be fooled this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country…

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We place life’s bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall of the wildest reaches of the possible, which alwa…

Image: “Aftermath” by Leslie Ann Aguillard. “‘A Wife Is Responsible for Her Husband’s Success’” was written by Kris Nicole for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, July 2026, and selected as the Artist’s Ch...

Essays documenting the toll that myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) has taken on one family, from the new book, 'What Is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Like?'

Energy-hungry data centers are driving up our electric bills and handcuffing us to climate-wrecking fossil fuels. While Big Tech profits, the rest of us are left to pay the price. We’re calling on Con...

Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t

“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it