Political and cultural criticism, satire, and salvos. Since 1988. Online and in print.
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They say everything is bigger in Texas, but our new issue reveals just how far the state’s influence has expanded beyond its geographic limits, reflecting and shaping the politics of a world overrun with extractive industry, cattle fetishism, and border violence.
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“Deliberate inaction and callous disregard by politicians are crimes against humanity, and one can trace those crimes on a continuum from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.”
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As Israel’s wars have continued, IDF soldiers are prioritizing self-care through a yoga practice that blends new age pabulum and the logic of colonialism. @maryturfah writes on the healing journey of a violent society.
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“If the California Ideology grew out of the collision of the computer industry and the counterculture, the Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.”
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Buc-ee’s is more than just a gas station. It’s an experience: the perfect place to grab a brisket sandwich, stock up on deer corn, and add to the fortune of a Greg Abbott donor who’s overseeing the environmental degradation of his home state.
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The digital revolution was built on the backs of an underpaid, undervalued workforce whose labor was hidden from view. So is the AI revolution.
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The World Cup will only last a few weeks, but the community displacement it’s driven is permanent. So, too, is the expanded policing and surveillance. And for NOlympics protestors in Los Angeles, it’s a sign of things to come in 2028.
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The process of moving natural gas is wasteful and inefficient; transport accounts for roughly half of methane emissions associated with fossil gas. In Mexico, new pipelines threaten the communities and environments they snake through.
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“Peace beyond the body is impossible, for Israelis, because the Arabs are stubborn in their antisemitic unwillingness to make peace with the Jews. Peace is impossible, for the people Israel occupies, because peace and occupation are mutually exclusive.”
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Mars colonization may still be a ways off, but SpaceX is building a sort of prototype in South Texas. In the new town of Starbase, Cybertrucks roll through gated communities and on roads with names like “Memes Street.”
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In short fiction from our new issue, death is omnipresent and life trundles on, a mess of lost papers and matted fur.
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“Data-entry work was plucked out of the American office and kicked to ever-more-vulnerable groups of workers, who lacked basic protections or the ability to bargain for better wages.”
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FIFA and its partners pitch the World Cup as an opportunity for cheerful international unity. But for the communities in the shadow of its stadiums, the tournament heralds something darker: displacement, surveillance, and broken promises.
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Inspiring piece detailing resistance to fifa & transnational networks solidarity across cities
“It’s a party for the rich. We’re seeing that echoed across all cities and all of the profit is going to go back into international war & domestic repression.”
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SpaceX went public today. Its IPO was the biggest in history, minting Elon Musk as the world’s first trillionaire. In our new issue, @GestureWildly describes the communities and habitats being leveled to enable the company’s meteoric rise.
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This is a great piece about evangelical ethnonationalism in Northern Ireland and the American South.
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Anti-immigrant violence has erupted in Belfast this week, with racist mobs setting fires and forcing families to flee their homes. In our latest issue, @Oliver_Eagleton links the right-wing grievances of Northern Ireland and the United States.
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“When I was growing up, no one told me how important it was to have a purpose, that that’s how you succeed in life. From now on, the purpose of whatever I write will be to announce to the world how great I am at fucking the world.”
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“Vollmann’s involvement in the narrative distinguishes him from the conspiration of espionage and 9/11 literature. He wants to direct your perception of this novel, not leave it open to interpretation.”
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Psychologists in Israel are coping with the rise of PTSD in ex-military with a moral balancing act that borrows the language of yoga and self-affirmation. @maryturfah asks what equilibrium looks like in a country founded on inequality.
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“Dissent against the World Cup comes up against a complex of private and state interests that are working overtime to make them invisible.”
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