Issue Four

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Steve Mann ~ How People Set Prices: Wall Street Edition

Malick Doucouré ~ A New Proxy War in West Africa

Rebekah Diski ~ Bidenomics Didn't Go Far Enough


Max Ornstein ∙ Lara Torbay ∙ Kyle Flannery

David Mann ∙ Isabel Pabán Freed


Aaron Robertson ~ A Wanderer Paints the Black Madonna

Ciarán O'Rourke ~ The Wheelbarrow Was Red

O.F. Cieri ~ Dear Oscar, We Call Upon You - Give Us a Sign

Brianna Di Monda ~ You Ever Just Get In Your Subaru and Drive?

Shaan Sachdev ~ Die Phänomenologie des Gay-Cruisings

Aida Garrido ~ "Flan" - A Poem of Manhattan

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A Conversation A balloon was in his mouth Expanding against his palate Pushing the backs of his teeth. His friend, Whom he had been talking to, Seemed apprehensive but not altogether spooked. The balloon continued to grow. His mouth was now about halfway open, And his friend could see the crown of it in the gap. It...
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Political Economy & Planning

Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

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Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

Social Movements

My McUnion 

A fast-food worker learns unionization tactics while working to organize their restaurant

Culture, High & Low

Retro Shock

When the world's a cyberpunk dystopia, where does the genre go next?

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Geopolitics of the Sahel

Recent coups in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have produced the Alliance of Sahelian States (AES). Why is it aligning with Russia?

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Atlas Dabbed

New York, NY | USA

Suspended over this one-to-one-scale map of my doomed metropolis, I saw all at once the extent of the sickness that had fallen on New York.
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Faultlines 

Johannesburg | South Africa

Dineo’s last image of the German was of him, wide-eyed and shouting, pulling the door of the van closed on a whole group of people.
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