In an interview in May, the head of the Israeli military intelligence’s targeting division responded to outrage over the civilian death toll in Gaza by boasting that algorithmic surveillance systems ...

As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, ...

Liz Bowen is a writer, scholar, and editor living in New York City. She is a doctoral student in English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Her first poetry collection Sugarblood was ...

The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, Brian Thompson, in an apparent assassination this week has led to an outpouring of popular rage against health insurance companies from across the political ...

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Dana Houle served as Chief of Staff for former U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes and campaign manager for Hodes and for U.S. Rep. Jim Himes. He writes at The Rooted Cosmopolitan. Representative Cooper has many ...

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Avner Inbar is a PhD student in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

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