The Economy of Influence
A conversation with Emily Hund, the author of The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media.
Fall 2024
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Traveling the Psychic Hinterlands
A conversation with Rachel Aviv, the author of Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us.
Women’s Work
Caroline Walker’s paintings are a reflection of modern labor conditions in an increasingly service-based economy.
The Carceral Logic of Child Welfare
An interview with Dorothy Roberts, the author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.
Why Do We Call the Police?
An interview with Derecka Purnell, the author of Becoming Abolitionists, about what makes communities unsafe—and how she went from calling 911 to fighting for abolition.
When Title IX Is Not Enough
Student experiments in DIY justice point to the shortcomings of the current Title IX system in confronting sexual harm on campuses.
Cult Capitalism
To understand how NXIVM’s members went from the pursuit of professional success to facilitating and enduring horrific wrongs requires examining the world of contemporary business from which the cult emerged.
From Fossil Capitalism to Green Democracy
An interview with Kate Aronoff about her new book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight Back.
How Do We End Sexual Violence?
In The Feminist and the Sex Offender, Judith Levine and Erica R. Meiners pull back the curtain on the history of the sex offender registry and explore how we can strive to reduce sexual harm without mass incarceration.
The Rise of Telehealth
Telehealth has become a necessity during the pandemic. But its promises to increase access will fall apart if it becomes yet another profit center in a consolidated healthcare system.
Isolation, Death, and Grief at a New York Women’s Prison
Coronavirus infections climb at the state’s only maximum-security facility for women, and those held there fear for their safety.
The Pandemic Inside the Only Women’s Maximum-Security Prison in New York
At Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, incarcerated women fear for the elderly and babies among them.
