Commentary


Universities’ Reliance on Contingent Faculty Endangers Free Speech on Campus

By Vanessa Guida, Kat Savino, and Shannon Azzato Stephens September 22, 2017

When universities rely heavily on contingent labor, they do more than reduce their own bottom lines.

EducationPolitics

Interview

Suzy Hansen: The Rest of the World Knows

By Nicholas Bredie September 7, 2017

The writer on living abroad in Istanbul and the fraught concepts of American innocence and empire.

ConflictLit WorldPolitics

Interview

Mirjana Karanović: After Yugoslavia

Conducted and translated from the Serbian by Aurora Prelević August 21, 2017

The Serbian actress and filmmaker on legacies of violence in the Balkans and letting go of secrets.

EuropePolitics

Essay

Semiotic Weapons

By Stewart L. Sinclair August 7, 2017

What Roland Barthes taught me about decoding the NRA's recent controversial ad.

PoliticsUSA

Interview

Mithkal Alzghair: Dancing Displacement

By Sara Elkamel July 25, 2017

The Syrian choreographer on his latest performance.

Arts & CultureMENAPolitics

Essay

The Fire in Dunkirk

By Jacob Albert July 24, 2017

Shadows of life in a Kurdish refugee camp.

ConflictMENAPolitics

Interview

Sara Ahmed: Notes from a Feminist Killjoy

By Nishta J. Mehra July 17, 2017

The feminist scholar on bridging theory and ordinary life, and the pervasive myth that feminism originated in white culture.

GenderPolitics

Essay

Notes from the Lower Level

By Camille Dungy June 16, 2017

"Black isn't a skin tone. It's a condition."

PoliticsRace

Report

The Mountain and the Dry Desert Are Mine

By Samira Shackle June 12, 2017

The contentious effort to transform a remote Pakistani town into the epicenter of the new world order.

Asia & OceaniaPolitics

Essay

Waiting for Bill

By Tom Andes June 5, 2017

Scenes from Senator Bill Cassidy’s town-hall meeting, Metairie, Louisiana, February 22, 2017.

PoliticsUSA

Commentary

A Tremendous Opportunity

By Joshua D. Graber June 2, 2017

On CEO activism in the Trump era.

PoliticsUSA