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What’s Life Like for the Content Moderator?

What’s Life Like for the Content Moderator? What’s Life Like for the Content Moderator?

Hanna Bervoets’s novella We Had to Remove This Post attempts to get inside the mind of one the Internet’s frontline workers.

Aug 23, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Joanne McNeil

Nation Poetry

dear little b, dear little b,

I love to see you sat there pregnant with promise & nobody’s business: be bodacious if you feel like it. be camouflaged, if not. some might say you should be louder, bolder, ta…

Aug 23, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Police Force, Force

Police Force, Force Police Force, Force

Despite outrage, police abuse of power continues.

Aug 22, 2022 / OppArt / Emanuele Del Rosso

A mushroom cloud in black and white

How Worldwide Famine Would Follow Even a “Limited” Nuclear War How Worldwide Famine Would Follow Even a “Limited” Nuclear War

A landmark study demands attention.

Aug 22, 2022 / Matt Bivens

World War II veterans and military men pay their respect as they lay wreaths at the monument of the Soviet Army in central Sofia on May 9, 2008.

Balkan Dispatch: Bulgaria’s Crisis of Confidence Balkan Dispatch: Bulgaria’s Crisis of Confidence

Caught between a Russian past and a NATO future, the poorest country in the EU faces a political crisis—and a struggle over competing visions of national pride.

Aug 22, 2022 / Jeet Heer

A saturated, dark photo of the White House. The fountain is bright against the red bushes and green grass.

Who Should Be the Democratic Presidential Nominee in 2024? Who Should Be the Democratic Presidential Nominee in 2024?

Four writers argue who would make the best candidate: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Gretchen Whitmer, or Ro Khanna?

Aug 22, 2022 / The Debate / Joan Walsh, Bhaskar Sunkara, Michael Kazin, and John Nichols

Pentagon

Whose Rules? Our Rules! in the Rules-Based International Order Whose Rules? Our Rules! in the Rules-Based International Order

How the US leads by helping other people kill each other.

Aug 22, 2022 / Column / David Bromwich

Sonia Sotomayor, by Tim O'Brien

How Sonia Sotomayor Became the Conscience of the Supreme Court How Sonia Sotomayor Became the Conscience of the Supreme Court

The former prosecutor was never a liberal firebrand. Now it is she, more than any other justice, who puts progressive outrage into words.

Aug 22, 2022 / Feature / Elie Mystal

Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, 1992.

Will Neoliberalism Ever End? Will Neoliberalism Ever End?

A new history shows how neoliberalism took power during a period of crisis, which leaves open the question of whether it can be forced out as a result of one.

Aug 22, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Steven Hahn

Dan Goldman marching at NYC Pride with his daughter. He's holding a pride flag and wearing a rainbow lei. His daughter holds a sign reading

A Disunited Left Clears the Field for a Moderate in NY 10 A Disunited Left Clears the Field for a Moderate in NY 10

A congressional primary spanning swaths of Manhattan and Brooklyn proves that you can have too many progressive candidates.

Aug 19, 2022 / Ross Barkan

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