Spectral Machines
What happens when the idea of the worker disappears?
Winter 2026
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Women’s Work
Caroline Walker’s paintings are a reflection of modern labor conditions in an increasingly service-based economy.
Who Counts?
The refugee camp and its inhabitants at Piraeus Port, where Plato set the Republic, evoked a fundamental political quandary: who is included in democracy and who is left out?
The Power of a Rent Strike
We don’t have proof that our landlords sent men disguised as ICE agents to oust previous tenants—recent immigrants—from their apartment before we moved in, but we’re pretty sure it happened. What we do know is that they cut off heat …
What Is a Generation?
Surely it is not just a matter of age or biology, but something more—a collective frustration with the world as it is and a desire to find new ways to change it.
Memphis Blues
In his unstinting backing of unions, Martin Luther King, Jr. made clear that racism was rooted in a long and stubborn history of class injustice.
Sandtown Elegy
Remembering Freddie Gray, 1989–2015.
The Pain of Others
It is sheer sentimentality to ask photographs to do the work of politics and to make the choices that we cannot.
Consumo Consciente
You might mistake Terezinha Silva for a middle-aged eco-fundamentalist from Brooklyn. In fact, she is a militant member of São Paulo’s working-class housing movement. I first met Terezinha at a workshop in São Paulo last summer. In attendance were over …
