New Future

From Issue V: The original ambitions laid out at the Bandung Conference, which began 70 years ago today, for a "Thirld World" movement were far more radical than the eventual historical incarnation. Pranay Somayajula examines the contradictions of nationalism and statehood that conspired to ensure the internationalist vision’s shortcomings.

Physician Jake Sonnenberg reviews All This Safety is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders, which collects writings that cast light on the flagrant injustices of for-profit healthcare and its complicity with police and the state—from cops in hospitals and sting operations on pregnant women to forced sterilization.

Poet Ian Maxton's "The Possession" roams across the "spooked-out American map, " surveying the machinery of empire and the scorched landscapes it leaves behind.

What’s behind the current state of alarm around avian influenza? Abby Cartus examines the epidemiological science and how action is constrained by the political context—namely, RFK Jr. , the Trump administration, and the nation's worsening anti-science and anti-vaccine attitudes.

Poet Steph Sorensen's "Work, One" lyricizes the worker's inquiry to document the dull brutalities of a retail inventory job.

James Davis reviews Fredric Jameson’s last collection, Inventions of a Present, from Verso. What can the novel, as “time’s relief map, ” still teach us about the contemporary fragmentation of meaning?

Invoking Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah's devastating question, "Where do you bury a little boy's leg? ," poet Nawel Abdallah meditates on the Zionist entity's unimaginable brutality towards Palestinian children.

In this excerpt from his forthcoming project, Disfigurations, poet David Buuck seethes against the genocidal violence in Palestine and the inability of poetry to stop it.

Bradley Babendir compares two recent books that differ in their approach to critiquing the American pathology of entrepreneurialism and self-improvement: Erik Baker’s "Make Your Own Job" and Adam Chandler’s "99% Perspiration. "

In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a turn back towards unmediated accumulation exemplified by the administration’s egregious “Gaza development plan. ”

In this excerpt from her newest title, Capital’s Grave, upcoming from Verso Books, Jodi Dean introduces her provocative new thesis: capital may not be dead, but it is digging its own grave.

The new book from Peter Beinart, "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, " is reviewed by Joshua Gutterman Tranen. "The truth that Beinart cannot face is that there is no prize to be won here, no silver lining to the thousands of Palestinians blown to pieces by Israeli-American bombs. There is only shame. "

As the Biden administration is swept into the dustbin, Charlotte Rosen wonders: what was the liberal Hashtag-Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And, as a product of the first Trump term, what did commentators like Heather Cox Richardson morph into during Biden?

Sudip Bhattacharya's poem "this faith" fearlessly reckons with the contradictions of diasporic Hinduism –– from the Ganges to the Hudson river.