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Transit Deserts: Mapping the Hidden Inequities of Mobility
In many American cities, the absence of transit is as defining as its presence. Whole neighborhoods sit miles from reliable…
Rust Belt Rewilding: When Factories Become Forests
On the edge of Youngstown, Ohio, a factory lot once alive with molten steel now lies quiet, its concrete cracked,…
Hashtag Ancestry: When Genealogy Goes Viral
In living rooms and on timelines, family trees are no longer confined to dusty albums or oral traditions whispered at…
The Biometric Bargain: Trading Faces for Access
At the airport check-in kiosk, the stadium turnstile, even the neighborhood convenience store, a simple glance at a camera is…
The Ethics of Exit: Do We Owe Society a Farewell?
In democratic theory, much has been written about entry: the duties we assume when we join communities, institutions, or states….
The Promotion Paradox: Why Career Ladders Are Disappearing
For decades, the rhythm of working life followed a familiar beat: start at the bottom, prove yourself, climb a ladder…
Heat Islands, Human Costs: Why Cities Are the New Climate Epicenters
Step onto a downtown street in July, and you can feel it: the shimmer of heat radiating off asphalt, the…
The Siege of Satellites: How Orbital Skirmishes Echo Medieval Warfare
At dawn in the thirteenth century, townsfolk might wake to find the supply lines cut, the castle ringed with siege…
Trial by Algorithm: Who Gets Picked for Life-Saving Drugs?
The call to join a clinical trial once arrived by letter or through a physician’s referral. Today, it is increasingly…
Digital Relics: When Code Becomes Sacred Artifact
In medieval cathedrals, pilgrims would travel for weeks to glimpse a bone fragment, a torn garment, or a vial of…
Borderless Burial: How Diasporas Redefine Death Rites Online
On a quiet evening in Dakar, a family gathers around a laptop, their faces lit not by candlelight but by…
The Robot Witness: Can Nonhumans Testify to Truth?
In a courtroom, testimony is not just information. It is a performance of credibility. A witness swears an oath, recounts…