On Political-Libidinal Doubles Richard Seymour

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Executive Summary When President Trump took office in January 2025, there were roughly 40,000 people being held in immigration detention. By the start of December, that number had risen by almost 75 p...

One Canary Mission-affiliated website, BlackNest, reveals the group's internal operations, plans to expand, and how they celebrate deportations and firings

Weiss ought to cut her losses, green-light the piece, and try to start acting like an editor – not like a cog in the machine of authoritarian politics and oligarchy

Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.

To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Tracy speak with Lara Sheehi and Sophie Lewis about the role of cultur

It was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff well beyond what’s commonly assumed.

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you…

“One of the port authority people or naval people put their foot on my head and told me to sit on my knees: Don’t move.”

Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.

In Sakir Khader’s photographs of the West Bank, life and death coexist.

If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

Images taken just after the precipitous end of the civil war reveal a secret legacy that is just becoming visible.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

“Nobody knows who the Houthis are,” Hegseth says in the group chat—another way of saying that, when we’re dealing with the Houthis, or the Houthi-adjacent, or anybody adjacent to anything or anyone el...

The life and times of Wilhelm Reich Hannah Zeavin

Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst and author Jamieson Webster to discuss her brand-new book, On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe, out in March 2025 from Catapult. It’s a wide-ranging conv...

The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

As Sheehi recently argued, “It will be the university that enacts the violence of fascism. The fascist just sends off a letter.” To this story we can add the psychoanalyst, who also seems all too will...

We the undersigned are academic faculty and researchers whose work engages with psychoanalysis, and we are writing from North America, South America, and Europe to support the Center for the Treatme...

The precarity of living on a burning planet.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

We spoke with NYU journalism professor Chenjerai Kumanyika about how the school's intensified campus policing strategy might be doing Donald Trump's work for him.

Featuring Patrick Blanchfield on assassination and political violence: from the routine to the extraordinary; authored by the state, capital, the left, the right, the unwell and alienated; as an anxie...

As Sheehi recently argued, “It will be the university that enacts the violence of fascism. The fascist just sends off a letter.” To this story we can add the psychoanalyst, who also seems all too will...

Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did…

DCPI has more than doubled in size in the past two years. Some of its recent hires have histories of dishonesty and misconduct.

Health insurers reject millions of claims for treatment every year in America. Corporate insiders, recordings and internal emails expose the system and its harm.