Wimple Networks
“Twitchers” is the slang term for bird lovers who, binoculars at the ready, keep patient vigil, watching for the twitch of a twig or flutter of...
A Proliferation of Beauties
When Dave Hickey died last fall at the age of eighty-two, he left behind a singular contribution to the history of art writing, along with a...
The Rich Get Richer
Historically the regulation of companies in the United States has been a matter of state law. Corporations were primarily regulated by the state in which they...
Dire Straits
The environmental justice movement—the fight of Black, brown, immigrant, indigenous, and poor communities to free themselves of unequal environmental burdens (dirty air, unclean water, toxic chemicals,...
Health Care Under Fire
There is a new medical specialty in Syria. Driven by deliberate attacks on doctors, other medical personnel, aid workers, hospitals, and ambulances, this multidisciplinary field covers...
Early Alzheimer’s
A shelf of memory calving into the sealike an Antarctic glacier on TVthese scenes of climate changeheightening the senescencewe try to fathom day by dayas yet...
A Hotter Russia
After Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky and countless ordinary Ukrainians entreated Europe to embargo Russian energy, which has long been central to...
I, the People
Before Hitler and Stalin (and Putin), there was Maximilien Robespierre, the leader of the French Revolution during the period in 1793–1794 known as the Terror. If...
Alban Berg’s Dissonances
On the day before Christmas in 1935, the Austrian composer Alban Berg was pronounced dead in a Viennese hospital for indigents. The cause of death was...
