The Puddle at Delaney Hall
A night in the lives of volunteers at an ICE detention facility
Outside the ICE detention center in Newark, mutual aid workers struggle to keep families of the disappeared fed and informed.
All Front Pages
Border Economies, Broken Lives
In Kashmir, a chaos of trade, smuggling, and surveillance shapes the “cold peace” between India and Pakistan
Our correspondents report from contested Kashmir, where conflict between India and Pakistan has split families apart.
What is the DOGE?
The debt, the DOGE, and the crisis of competence in an era of rising “national conservatism”
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the total loss of economic planning knowledge.
Unprofitable Convenience
How European venture capital tried to make grocery delivery apps happen—and failed
Gorillas, Zapp, Flink, Getir, Rocket, Cajoo, Frichti, GoPuff: why have EU delivery start-ups failed to achieve lift-off?
Why Racists Lose Wars
History is full of ethnically divided armies. A recent study quantifies their disastrous track record.
Trump's military is slashing diversity. Jason Lyall's book proves ethnic chauvinism loses wars and collapses states
From Issue 3
Can Technology Save Us?
The Left’s wires are crossed about technology. We hack away at the Gordian knot.
Light bulb cartels, technocratic cults, world-wide web, world-ending nukes: would a socialism that takes tech seriously be for it or against it?
The Socio-Material Lens
The economy as seen through its physical processes and social interactions
The economy isn't about money. Properly understood, it's the dynamic socio-material interaction of constructed rituals with production processes.
Beyond Athens and Jerusalem
Far-right intellectuals love to steal left-wing economic ideas. But what’s their real agenda?
"National conservatives" and "neoreactionaries" on the far right are paying lip service to leftist economics. But their deep motive is a hatred of democracy.
