Representative Ilhan Omar talks about a past that led her to stand up for New Americans and embrace the challenges of American democracy.
That Better America for Everyone: Talking to Representative Ilhan Omar
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On Messaging
Alexander Stern explores the frictionless ease of communication in the digital age.
The Working Dead: Reviving the Crowd as a Protagonist
Chas Walker compares the expendability of the crowd in horror films to our current pandemic thinking.
A Roundtable on COVID-19 and The Attention Economy
Scholars on the topic of individual and collective attention convene to discuss the impacts of prolonged social isolation and selfishness on attention.
Restarting the Gun Debate: Suicide After COVID-19
With a tragic personal link, Paja Faudree delves into one of the most underrecognized aspects of gun violence in America: self-harm.
In Praise of Pilsa, the Highly Uncreative Korean Method of Learning to Write
Colin Marshall discusses a maligned yet effective method of learning in Korea.
Their Understanding of Who We Are: Talking to Dipayan Ghosh
Andy Fitch interviews Dipayan Ghosh about what tech companies actually do with the data they collect and his book "Terms of Disservice."
The Act of Seeing
Breanna Chia thinks about the disservice of dodges and well-meaning, noncommittal sympathies in the context of the murder of James Scurlock.
Beware of Old Statues
Elizabeth Archibald thinks about the destruction and vengeance of statues.
The Road from Montenegro
Olja Knezevic writes about returning to Podgorica.
