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Health and Social Policy

‘A Foreclosing of Options’: Racial Health Inequality in Washington, D.C.

by Naomi Bethune February 16, 2026

Princeton’s Sanyu Mojola examines the public-health issues confronting America’s capital city.

Books, Arts and Culture

Sundance Is Over. Long Live Sundance.

by A.A. Dowd February 6, 2026

Will there be life after Utah (and Robert Redford) for America’s biggest film festival?

Books

‘Cadillac Desert’ Reconsidered

by Ryan Cooper December 12, 2025December 12, 2025

Marc Reisner’s 1986 book demonstrates how a hypertrophic judiciary combines with America’s deadlocked legislature to make vast swaths of Western water policy dependent on 19th-century legal norms.

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Books

The Internet’s Tollbooth Operators

by Rhoda Feng December 10, 2025December 10, 2025

Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction chronicles the way Big Tech platforms have turned against their users.

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Artifice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Adam M. Lowenstein December 9, 2025December 9, 2025

To understand the tech mindset is to see that the ultimate goal is domination. Silicon Valley elites apply a different standard to themselves because, quite simply, they believe that they deserve a different set of rules and expectations.

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Books, Arts and Culture

Brown Stage Capitalism

by Maureen Tkacik October 7, 2025October 22, 2025

Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” in 2022, though it was hardly a new phenomenon even then. In granting apps the right to wield the absurdities of intellectual property law to legally bully their users, the government emboldened tech founders to view their companies as exempt from laws and regulations.

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Books, Arts and Culture

America’s Greatest Mistake

by Siddhartha Mahanta October 3, 2025October 14, 2025

This article appears in the October 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And What Would Make It Right) By David J. Lynch PublicAffairs For a time, globalization was synonymous with utopia: the untrammeled flow of capital across borders, new markets waiting to be opened, the growth of developing […]