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Culture	How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly Emily West, communication scholar and author of “Buy Now,” offers a cautionary tale of bigness in today’s digital economy. The Editors \| Jun 13
Culture	Should We or Shouldn’t We? Arguments for and Against Lockdown Drills Two experts examine the arguments and data for and against the polarizing practice. Jaclyn Schildkraut and Amanda B. Nickerson \| Jun 9
Culture	Gender Has a History and It’s More Recent Than You May Realize The story of how society, ignorant of medical research, made a stigma out of something our bodies do quite naturally: not conform to a sexual binary. Kathryn Bond Stockton \| Jun 8
Culture	Butch Heroes: Portraits From Queer History An excerpt from Ria Brodell's book "Butch Heroes," which sheds light on the lives of people who didn't conform to gender norms, from the 15th through the 20th centuries. Ria Brodell \| Jun 2
Culture	The Brilliant Objects Embodying the Meeting of Disability and Design In praise of truly interdisciplinary thinking. Graham Pullin \| May 25
Culture	Birthing Furniture: An Illustrated History An excerpt from "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births." Michelle Millar Fisher & Amber Winick \| Apr 28
Culture	Calculating Skies: Topologies of Air and the Airspace Tribunal Can we deploy creative practices to critically address the fatal interlocking of global surveillance technologies, neocolonial expansionism, environmental degradation, and the lethal threat of drone warfare? Anthony Downey \| Apr 22
Culture	The Weird, Wonderful History of Fairground Photography An essay from renowned photography historian Clément Chéroux’s book “Since 1839... Eleven Essays on Photography." Clément Chéroux, Translated by Shane B. Lillis \| Mar 29
Culture	The Brilliant Vision of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s When will we ever see realized what Sultana glimpses: the abolition of fossil-fuel technologies, the greenifying of cities, the detoxification of masculinity, and the triumph of love and truth over fear and hatred? Joshua Glenn \| Mar 24
Culture	At the Azraq Refugee Camp, Restoring Humanity Through Art and Design An excerpt from “Design to Live,” documenting designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. Azra Aksamija, Raafat Majzoub, and Melina Philippou \| Mar 22