“Merely restoring public health funding as it existed before Trump is not enough…. Federal public health agencies, including the CDC and NIOSH, should not just be reestablished but expanded.” —Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler
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The Dismantling of American Health Care | Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler
On July 4 President Donald Trump signed into law a piece of legislation that amounts to a declaration of war on the working-class and the sick. The...
“AIs don’t ‘write’ essays or anything else—the use of that verb shows how easily we anthropomorphize,” James Gleick writes. “As plagiarists, they obscure and randomize their sources but do not transcend them.”
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The Parrot in the Machine | James Gleick
The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.
Joyce Carol Oates on the literally toxic origins of serial killers
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Death in the Air | Joyce Carol Oates
In Murderland, Caroline Fraser traces the correlations between rapacious industrial pollution and sadistic serial killers.
David Shulman on the second Nakba, now in full gear in the West Bank
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Netanyahu’s War | David Shulman
Engineering a second Nakba and annexing the occupied territories are integral parts of Netanyahu’s war against the State of Israel’s democratic...
“The simple willingness to be dishonorable destabilizes everything American power affects, instilling anxiety on every side…. Instability, shrewdly managed, is a great multiplier of power.” —Marilynne Robinson
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Notes from an Occupation | Marilynne Robinson
America is an occupied country, ruled by partisans hostile to democracy.
Ursula Lindsey on Mohamed Choukri’s hardscrabble life in the margins of Tangier
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The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag | John Washington
The Terrorism Confinement Center was designed to be a black hole. When Nayib Bukele’s flagship “megaprison”—known as CECOT, after its Spanish
Marilynne Robinson on a homegrown occupation
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Notes from an Occupation | Marilynne Robinson
America is an occupied country, ruled by partisans hostile to democracy.
“The very idea of a free university,” writes David Cole, “cannot coexist with the ideological micromanagement Trump sought to impose.”
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Why Harvard Defied Him | David Cole
Last week the Trump administration proposed what amounts to a hostile takeover of the country’s oldest and wealthiest university. In an over-the-top
The New York Review of Books is proud to join Mastodon today to bring you essays and reviews about literature, politics, art, history, philosophy, science, society, and culture. In fact, our April 24 issue is now online, with Fintan O’Toole on Trump’s destructive European policy, Vivian Gornick on City College, Erin Maglaque on sex with Christians, Merve Emre on Tom Wolfe, Peter Singer on morality, Omer Bartov on Israel’s genocide, and much more.
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