Newsletter

After the Hit-and-Run

Can restorative justice offer crash victims like me—and the drivers who harmed us—the healing we need?

Mari Cohen September 28, 2023

Kathy Ottersten

“You take the risk to save lives. Maybe that’s how you love people.”

Hannah Gold September 28, 2023

Two Paths for Diasporism

Daniel Boyarin’s The No-State Solution seeks to revive the idea of Jews as a “diaspora nation,” but reduces a powerful repository of political templates to a dissident subculture.

Julie E. Cooper September 28, 2023

Staging Resistance

In Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost, art prepares the ground of the self for the demands of collectivity.

Nora Caplan-Bricker September 28, 2023

Revaluing the Strike

Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation.

Erik Baker September 27, 2023

By Such Honorifics, You Attempt to Summon the Old Country You Have Never Seen

“Chosen affliction / Spilt milk / Pool of amnesia / Extreme sport / Terminal psychodrama”

Momtaza Mehri September 22, 2023

When Prisons Privilege Family Ties, Who Gets Left Behind?

Prisons sometimes temper their isolating nature by connecting prisoners to family, but State Raised individuals are still excluded.

Raymond Williams September 21, 2023

“Biden’s Legacy Will Be Apartheid”

President Biden has answered Prime Minister Netanyahu’s extremist government with only the mildest of rebukes. Critics say he is failing to meet the moment.

Alex Kane September 20, 2023