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Rising authoritarianism, climbing temperatures, and expanding social media empires are exacerbating our ongoing democratic crisis.

As I chat on the phone with author Kevin Carey about the inspiration for his new book Junior Miles and the Junkman, I watch my partner and my twelve-year-old inspect and take apart the drivetrain on a bike. Carey has asked me to jump into a planned conversation with artist Steve Gerberich, crediting Gerberich’s kinetic art as motivation for his upcoming middle-grade novel.

Gia Margarets Romantic Piano is informed by innocence and experience, and has gorgeous moments replacing silence by reorganizing background sounds of everyday life.

Artist of Iron Samuel Yellin and the Landmark Year 1922

The good news is that the plutocrat’s move to turn a social media platform into a forum for the far right probably won't work.

Talk only gets you so far, and I think we have come as far as we can. It is no substitute for government action, or meaningful change

Group chats were a lifeline during lockdown – but for many, the constant messages have become an oppressive distraction. Leaving, however, is not so simple

To many, social media may appear as a thin gruel of inanities, something that erases the boundary between the private and the public

The author’s latest book is a wide-ranging collection of left-wing ecocriticism catalyzed by his own ecological awakening.

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