As genocide unfolds in Gaza, we turn to platforms that profit from our witness. Are we fueling the very systems we seek to ...

From the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 to the advent of Gorbachev’s glasnost in the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union was ...

Despite what the law says, the government still spies on people because of their political beliefs. What is new is the scale ...

Firms like Philip Morris hold rights that exceed those of most humans. Estates speak for the dead. Trusts speak for the ...

I’d like to take [Latiné Heritage Month] as an invitation to probe the notion of sovereignty not as a condition granted, but ...

Danielewski, it seems, is not acting as a writer here, but as a hoarder of phrases, the more redolent of a vanished “Western” ...

Lily Balloffet is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Argentina in the Global Middle East (Stanford University Press, ...

Utilitarian public baths and pools once filled the world’s cities, but now new expensive spas are taking their place. Has even bathing become a luxury?

Camus opens the book with Meursault’s life, but François Ozon opens the new film adaptation with Meursault’s specific moment in history: the brutal French colonization of Algeria.

What were the books of 2024 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 12th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black History, Literary Fiction, Borderlands, ...