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The 2020

By Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Photography by Henry Danner

September 8, 2020

We were passengers forced to jump into the water when our ship, the 2020, after years of creaking, cracked in half and sank down into the darkness. The ship was long thought to be beautiful. For it gleamed in the sunlight. And it gleamed in the moonlight. It throbbed like a beacon, could be seen across great distances. And since it was like a beacon it was taken for a beacon.

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Mapping: Charged

By Jenn Boggs, Alexander Brock

September 8, 2020

Cash Bail, Jail Populations, and Room for Improvement

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Mapping: Space Junk

By Jenn Boggs, Alexander Brock

March 2, 2020

Earth's Congested Inner Orbit

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Weight

By John Freeman

March 2, 2020

What if each time
you caused pain
a small, round stone
was put in your pocket
pebbles for inducing
self-doubt

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Living With

By Stu Sherman

March 2, 2020

Self-Portrait of a Diabetic Life

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Song of the Song

By John Freeman

March 2, 2020

I wish we were living
a story of desire, but
I don’t feel Odysseus
beating out his tale
of longing at the oars

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Our Deepfake Future

By Ali Fitzgerald

March 2, 2020

Deepfakes—videos altered by artificial intelligence—have begun warping our reality.

Dr. Subbarao Kambhampati, researcher and professor at Arizona State University and former president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: “We can’t just believe everything we see. And in some sense, until now that was possible.”

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The Gargantuan Arm

By John Freeman

March 2, 2020

Let us remember liberty was not popular,
six years it took Laboulaye to convince
Bartholdi a gigantic statue was
what New York harbor needed. Eleven
years later

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