metazine

Ever since the late 1980s, when a Supreme Court ruling and resulting revised city charter essentially remade New York City’s government in the hope of

In his new book, Julian Hattem explores how migration can be a climate solution — not just for those who move, but their home communities as well.

'Kshamenk did not die too soon. He lived far too long in a situation he had no means of escaping. '

Timothy Snyder sees a familiar connection between US domestic repression and escalating foreign aggression.

Environmental advocates notched key wins at local and state levels this year — despite the Trump administration’s rollbacks.

In his victory speech, Zohran Mamdani vowed to put forward “the most ambitious agenda” New York City had seen since the administration of Fiorello La

“It was a brilliant operation, actually. ” So claimed Donald Trump early this morning in a phone call with The New York Times about the US military’s

On November 14 the Guardian reported, on the basis of internal military documents, that the United States was “planning for the long-term division of

Federal and state officials have sued the company behind the blast, but Roseland, Louisiana, residents say the case won’t bring relief to their town.

Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation

Greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from fires around the world may be 70 percent higher than once believed.

As Nebraska's weather intensifies, farmers are losing a critical resource to understand it.

There is a steeliness to Zohran Mamdani that wasn’t obvious when he first appeared as a candidate for mayor, ablaze with ideas while extending a panoramic

Climate policy didn’t feature much in this mayoral election, possibly because much of the exciting legislation necessary to start moving New York toward a

Zohran Mamdani has introduced several changes to American politics—joining ideological maximalism to policy minimalism, crafting a winning political

In less suspenseful years a mayoral election in New York City would be a purely local event, but in precarious 2025 it was a national and even

On the afternoon of Friday, April 14, 2023, as the last days of Ramadan drew to an end, I went to have iftar with my extended family in Omdurman, across

Blurring the boundaries between terror and tenderness

"How much of the pleasure of making a garden is in the plan? "

What we're watching this winter