Our correspondent met with the great Iranian director to get his thoughts on political cinema, what it means to go back behind the camera, and what gets lost in translation.

Edward Frumkin

Back Pages Online

Applying a New Foundation, Geopolitically

What the spread of East Asia’s beauty trends reveals about the region’s soft power influence.

Chinon Norteman

Bored Women

The ennui, the humor, the horror, the canon of women's boredom in literature

The Ballad of Glanton Dowdell

An excerpt from The Black Utopians

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The Absence of the Future

At the Venice Biennale, architecture has no vision of the future but gadgets, gimmicks, and climate doom

Kate Wagner

Notes Toward a Theory of Inflation

Why do people raise prices?

Wobbly Economics – Part I

Why Frederic S Lee was the greatest economist you’ve never heard of

How They Paid for the War

Social democrats should fight climate change the way we fought the Axis Powers

Price Pressures

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

What Should Money Be Made From?

And who should have the power to create it?

Do Interest Rate Hikes Worsen Inflation?

Central bankers want to pull on one lever to lower prices; history shows this might raise them

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

Our growth fetish has its roots in material and cultural transformations; so too will degrowth

Editorials

Socialism with an Anarchist Squint

Authoritarian creep, libertarian socialism, & democratic planning

An assemblage of colorful, elementary, 3D shapes.

Words for our Present Reality

A Modest Proposal for a New and Living Ontology

Reporting

The March of the Breeders

In Bulgaria, Sofia Pride is under siege from domestic reactionaries and DOGE cuts alike – but they’re fighting back

Social Movements

An Historiography of Anarchism

Global anarchist history reveals the fundamental unity of the tradition, along with its key lines of debate and disagreement

Searching For a Pulse

We talk to Shift Change, who are fighting for more democracy in National Nurses United

Notes on Labor Notes

Between compromise and radicalism, on the job and at the Labor Notes conference

Culture, High & Low

No Such Thing as a Way Out

Krasznahorkai’s Chasing Homer portrays humanity at the end of history

Nimble Conveyances

Conversations with Las Vegas magicians

Clement Gelly

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

Our growth fetish has its roots in material and cultural transformations; so too will degrowth

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What is the DOGE?

The debt, the DOGE, and the crisis of competence in an era of rising “national conservatism”

John Michael Colón

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the total loss of economic planning knowledge.

Why Racists Lose Wars

History is full of ethnically divided armies. A recent study quantifies their disastrous track record.

Border Economies, Broken Lives

In Kashmir, a chaos of trade, smuggling, and surveillance shapes the “cold peace” between India and Pakistan

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Lima | Peru

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