An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

Will Meyer is a freelance writer and co-editor of The Shoestring in western Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in The Baffler, Teen Vogue, The New Republic, Longreads, Columbia Journalism Review, and other publications. Twitter is @willinabucket. 
  • Laboratories of Empire

    Laboratories of Empire

    Will Meyer, with an eye to Stuart Schrader’s Badges Without Borders and Todd Miller’s Empire of Borders, examines how U.S. policing and repressive tactics are exported to and tested in client states, and how they inevitably return home.