Spring 2025 · Issue 2 cover

The Parallels Issue

Special Feature

A Domain of One’s One

A Domain of One’s One

“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us...
A Blueprint for Defiance

A Blueprint for Defiance

Tongues Against Empire

Tongues Against Empire

Public Lands, Private Profits

Public Lands, Private Profits

Environmental conservation initiatives have become synonymous with the left, but it has not always been this way. In the 20th century, American presidents from both sides of the aisle favored expandin...
Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200

Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200

America’s ruling class of millionaires and billionaires has never been more visible or devastatingly powerful. Under President Donald Trump, the wholly unaccountable figures that comprise the American...

United States

A Low Bar

A Low Bar

What do Barack Obama and a five-time bank robber have in common? They both passed the Character and Fitness test to become lawyers. To verify their moral character as part of the B...
Error 404: Friendship Not Found

Error 404: Friendship Not Found

End of the Grove

End of the Grove

Risky Business

Risky Business

As wildfires raze entire neighborhoods, currents pull coastal villages into the Atlantic, and hurricanes displace more and more people each year, homeowners face a grim reality: The costs of climate c...
The Devil Wears Patagonia

The Devil Wears Patagonia

Slack pings and jargon like ‘scaling up’ and ‘A/B testing’ hummed through my childhood. Growing up, I would head to my dad’s office in downtown Palo Alto, where product managers became my babysitters...

World

Keep Off the Ice

Keep Off the Ice

Greenland is an island mired in inconsistencies and ironies. It is named after a color, yet its tundra is a bleak white. It is the largest island in the world, a landmass three tim...
Leaf it to the Farmers

Leaf it to the Farmers

A Revolution Without a Roadmap

A Revolution Without a Roadmap

Cast(e) in Stone

Cast(e) in Stone

“At least 250 million people worldwide still face appalling and dehumanizing discrimination based on caste and similar systems of inherited status.” Caste is a system of inherited social hierarchy tha...
Left Behind

Left Behind

On the afternoon of May 15, 2024, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico stepped out of a community center in Handlová, greeting a small crowd of supporters gathered behind a barricade. He moved toward the...

Interviews

Dueling With a Double-Edged Sword: An Interview with Professor Jacqueline Nesi

Dueling With a Double-Edged Sword: An Interview with Professor Jacqueline Nesi

A Brown assistant professor with over 50 peer-reviewed publications, Jacqueline Nesi has garnered extensive media attention for her work studying the impacts of social media on ado...
Corruption, Culture, and Capitalism: An Interview with Daniel Jordan Smith

Corruption, Culture, and Capitalism: An Interview with Daniel Jordan Smith

The Intersection Between Sustainability and Profit: An Interview with Anisha Rajapakse

The Intersection Between Sustainability and Profit: An Interview with Anisha Rajapakse

Featured Stories

No Place Like HomeData

No Place Like Home

Rates of homelessness in America have been increasing since 2016, reaching record highs in 2024. Despite declining unemployment rates post-pandemic, it has become increasingly difficult for Americans...