Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

Not only a tool to justify U.S. and Israeli intervention, the label is increasingly dividing Iranian society from within.

Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

Alex Shams is a writer and anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, The New Republic, and elsewhere. A political and literary forum, ...

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Tobias Hübinette is a Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University. He is a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo) and was previously responsible for the Forte-funded Research Network for ...

Arindrajit Dube is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. We must act now to support families ...

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Paula M.L. Moya is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. She is editor of Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century, and ...