Essays

Culture	How One Organization Can Shorten Food Bank Lines Across the United States The nation’s largest food charity, Feeding America, has failed to embrace the progressive values needed to make a real impact. Here’s a plan to change that. Andrew Fisher \| Nov 23
Culture	How Pac-Man Revolutionized Gaming The original game is at the root of a rich design tradition, one that goes well beyond detailed graphics and fluid controls. Noah Wardrip-Fruin \| Nov 16
Science & Technology	Using Drones to Disrupt the Status Quo From Standing Rock to Syria, drones are being used to hold the powerful to account. Let’s keep it that way. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick \| Sep 10
Culture	Art Museums Will Never Be the Same. That’s a Good Thing. Facing unprecedented limitations to their physical operations and vocal calls to redress their complicity in racial injustice, museums are having a moment of reckoning. David Joselit \| Jul 22
Business & Economics	Our World Is Interconnected. It’s Time Our Leaders Adapt. A failure to learn from 2008’s global, human-made crisis is haunting 2020’s struggle with a nature-created, human-enabled one. Amit S. Mukherjee \| Jul 14
Science & Technology	Why Paper Maps Matter in the Digital Age A glance at the research reveals that there are distinct advantages to using print maps. Meredith Broussard \| Jul 9
Culture	What the National Review Gets Wrong About Deconstruction A misguided article in the conservative magazine blames the concept for the powerful cultural transformations we’re seeing today. That’s about all it gets right. David J. Gunkel \| Jul 7
Culture	American Democracy Is Less Broken Than You Think America has thrived despite a long history of ignorant voters making questionable decisions and unqualified elected officials implementing abysmal policies. Danny Oppenheimer and Mike Edwards \| Jun 29
Culture	Cycling, Art, and Utopian Possibilities Against the grim background of the Covid-19 catastrophe, there is some small cause for hope in the current renewal of enthusiasm for cycling. Bruce Bennett \| Jun 15
Culture	The Symbolic Use of Barrier Contraceptives in American and English Literature The diaphragm and cervical cap have been used to signify extramarital sex, working-class status, embarrassment, sorrow, and the onset of adulthood — but rarely a joyful or pleasant sexual encounter. Donna J. Drucker \| May 14