• Politics

    Anti-Colonialism

    Amiri Baraka’s Anti-Epic Poem About America’s Destruction

    By Michael Leong  July 28, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Joe Sacco: Will We One Day Honor the Veterans of the Great Pandemic Wars?

    By Joe Sacco  July 27, 2020
    The CIA

    Inside the Quest for Documents That Could Resolve a Cold War Mystery

    By Nicholson Baker  July 27, 2020
    The Hub

    The director of the Philadelphia Free Library resigned over claims of mistreatment of Black staff.

    By Corinne Segal  July 24, 2020
    Free Speech

    Mitch McConnell quoted Salman Rushdie in a confused defense of free speech and the rule of law.

    By Aaron Robertson  July 23, 2020
    Letters Home

    Letter From Exile: Finding Home
    in a Pandemic

    By Samiya Bashir  July 23, 2020
    Bookselling

    It’s Past Time for the Bookselling Industry to Reckon with Its Institutional Racism

    By Angela Maria Spring  July 23, 2020
    Feminism

    The Complicated History of Feminism’s Impact on Incarceration

    By Aya Gruber  July 23, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What is Essential? And Who?

    By Siri Hustvedt  July 22, 2020
    Immigration

    How John Steinbeck’s Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

    By Tobias Carroll  July 22, 2020
    Democracy

    Why Did Republicans Abandon
    American Idealism?

    By Anne Applebaum  July 21, 2020
    Letters Home

    Where Is Black Life Lived?

    By Joshua Bennett  July 21, 2020
    Incarceration

    Jarvis Masters Writes From Death Row in San Quentin as Covid-19 Spreads Unchecked

    By Jarvis Masters  July 21, 2020
    News and Culture

    How to Write a Timely Novel in a World That Won’t Stop Changing

    By David James Poissant  July 20, 2020
    Art and Politics

    When an Iconic Artist is Claimed By Both the Left and the Right

    By Tobias Carroll  July 17, 2020
    Journalism

    Inside a Reporters Notebook at the US-Mexico Border

    By Jacob Soboroff  July 17, 2020
    Imprisoned Writers

    Under Dictatorship, Silence is as Dangerous as Protest

    By Tahar Ben Jelloun  July 17, 2020
    Economics

    The Misleading Neoliberal Promise of the Risk Expert

    By Oliver Broudy  July 16, 2020
    American Presidents

    On the American Election to Avoid WWIII

    By A. J. Baime  July 16, 2020
    World War II

    Can the German Path to Truth and Reconciliation Work in America?

    By Paul Scraton  July 15, 2020
    Prison

    On the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and Being Unable to Protect Those You Love

    By Melissa Valentine  July 15, 2020
    Free Speech

    Has Free Speech Become an Even More Partisan Issue Under the Trump Administration?

    By Suzanne Nossel  July 15, 2020
    The Hub

    A former Mueller prosecutor’s upcoming book will cover “mistakes” the team made.

    By Corinne Segal  July 14, 2020
    Activism

    On the Social Power (and Limits) of Twitter Activism

    By Genie Lauren  July 14, 2020
    Feminism

    Leila Slimani on Sex and an Ethics of Women’s Liberation in Morocco

    By Leïla Slimani  July 13, 2020
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