Features
How Conservation Became Colonialism
Indigenous people, not environmentalists, are the key to protecting the world’s most precious ecosystems.
Argument
Why India Gives Uber 5 Stars
Gig work offers a leg up in the developing world.
Argument
Our Data, Ourselves
How to stop tech firms from monopolizing our personal information.
Argument
Then They Came for the Lawyers
Technology has already driven blue-collar workers into the underclass. Professionals may be next.
Closing the Factory Doors
For two centuries, countries have used low-wage labor to climb out of poverty. What will happen when robots take those jobs?
Argument
Who Will Care for the Carers?
As populations age, countries will need ever more primary health workers and aides — jobs robots will never do well. So why do we treat these workers so badly?
Argument
Protect Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Robots can actually create jobs — if countries get their trade policies right.
Argument
The New Economy’s Old Business Model Is Dead
Tech companies are used to pairing big revenues with small labor forces. But they’ll soon be forced to become massive job creators.
Argument
First They Came for the Immigrants. Then They Came for the Robots.
Politicians must prepare voters for automation; otherwise, opportunistic populists will seize the agenda.
Aperture
The Fix
South Koreans Learn to Love the Other
How to manufacture multiculturalism.
Decoder
Pride and Prejudice in Tehran
To understand Iran’s foreign policy, you need to learn a little Farsi.
Debunker
Thank You, Jimmy Carter
Restoring the reputation of America’s most underrated foreign-policy president.
Infographic
There’s No Such Thing as a Stable Career
Job insecurity has always been a fact of life. Just ask chimney sweeps, lectors, and telephone operators.
Profile
Those Who Dare to Bare Their Hair
Masih Alinejad is helping Iranian women challenge the regime — one hijab at a time.
Reviews
Les Monstres Among Us
Two French best-sellers draw warnings for the present from the stories of Hitler’s henchmen.
Who’s Afraid of Judith Shklar?
Meet the American philosopher who showed that Western politics could only move forward by first taking a step backward.
Books in Brief: The Latest Reads on the Financial Crisis, the Rwandan Genocide, and What It Means to Be a Nation
Also: Works on India’s rise, the history of U.S. trade politics, and social media’s role in modern conflicts.
The Occupation as Entertainment
The second season of the acclaimed TV thriller “Fauda” obscures the dark realities of Israeli rule in the West Bank.
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