• Five Years After the Gezi Protests, the Legacy Lives On

    On the five-year anniversary of Turkey's Gezi protests, Nick Ashdown describes how the "soul of Gezi" still exists in the country.

    Rent Control Keeps Prices Down for Everyone. Why? Because the Housing Market Is Driven Primarily by Speculative Forces, Not Supply and Demand

    Julian Smith-Newman makes the case for rent control as a solution to California's housing affordability crisis.

    The Drone and the Tunnel: How We Read Indigenous Stories Matters

    Callum Angus considers the narrative strategies of two recent books, "Darwin's Ghosts" by Ariel Dorfman and Tommy Orange's "There There."

    The Dangers of Secrecy in Egg and Sperm Donation

    Angela Lawson outlines the potential problems with non-disclosure in egg and sperm donation.

    Why Won’t Keirstead or Rouda Bow Out, Open Door for Rohrabacher Defeat in CA 48?

    Tom Zoellner talks to Harley Rouda and Hans Keirstead, the two top democrats with a chance to defeat Dana Rohrabacher in the CA 48 primary.

    The Face Behind the Case: Janus v. AFSCME, Dark Money, and the Future of Labor

    Mansoor Khan on the impending Janus v. AFSCME decision and the fate of the labor movement.

    The Mars Room: A Maximalist Portrait of the California Prison System

    Louise McCune reviews Rachel Kushner's compassionate, complex novel "The Mars Room."

    The Trick Is There Is No Trick: Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman

    Nathan Scott McNamara reviews Tessa Fontaine's memoir of resilience and discovery "The Electric Woman."