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    Activism

    How to Pull Off a 250-Mile Protest March? Grit (And a Little Bit of Harry Belafonte)

    By Linda Sarsour  March 4, 2020
    The Hub

    Dear Oxford English Dictionary: “bitch” is not a synonym for “woman.”

    By Corinne Segal  March 3, 2020
    Life Under Late Capitalism

    Hilary Leichter on the Derangements of Late Capitalism

    By Kristin Iversen  March 3, 2020
    2020 Election

    How Celebrities Can Leverage Their Influence for Good in 2020

    By David Plouffe  March 3, 2020
    The Hub

    A new site for headline-inspired fiction launches today with stories by Carmen Maria Machado, Colum McCann, and more.

    By Corinne Segal  March 2, 2020
    The Internet

    From Anon to Alt-Right:
    The Dangerous Tricksters of 4chan

    By Joanne McNeil  March 2, 2020
    War

    Tim Bakken on the Self-Deluded Hubris at the Heart of the American Military

    By Tim Bakken  March 2, 2020
    The Hub

    Remember the time NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch put Klan hoods on Thomas the Train and friends?

    By Jonny Diamond  February 28, 2020
    The Hub

    New Yorker critic Dan Chiasson is trying to get Thomas Pynchon to endorse Bernie.

    By Emily Temple  February 27, 2020
    On Race

    The Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black Education

    By Mikki Kendall  February 27, 2020
    Democracy

    A Call to Action for the Large, Cacophonous Mess That is the Democratic Party

    By Dan Pfeiffer  February 27, 2020
    American Classics

    Marcus Mumford on John Steinbeck’s Lessons in Justice and Power

    By Literary Hub  February 27, 2020
    The Hub

    Volunteer-run, makeshift libraries are popping up at Indian protest sites.

    By Emily Temple  February 26, 2020
    5 Questions

    Mahogany L. Browne on Audre Lorde and Tools for Liberation

    By Literary Hub  February 26, 2020
    How a Person Should Be

    Why We Should All Be Less Like Satan, More Like My Mom

    By Rye Curtis  February 26, 2020
    The Hub

    German far-right party distributes racist coloring books.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 20, 2020
    Terrorism

    On the Madness of Crowds in the
    Global Age of Terror

    By William Davies  February 20, 2020
    Cities

    America’s Housing Crisis: A Reading List

    By Conor Dougherty  February 19, 2020
    Soccer

    Football is Everything (Which is to
    Say Soccer)

    By David Goldblatt  February 19, 2020
    Socialism

    How the Well-Educated and Downwardly Mobile Found Socialism

    By Charlotte Alter  February 19, 2020
    Counterculture

    The Book That Began as an Acid-Fueled Speech at Woodstock

    By Jack Hoffman and Daniel Simon  February 18, 2020
    Nonviolence

    Judith Butler on the Case for Nonviolence

    By Judith Butler  February 18, 2020
    Being Trans

    Moving Beyond a Misgendered Childhood

    By Veronica Esposito  February 18, 2020
    Immigration stories

    As Trump sends the border inland, a museum exhibit celebrates immigrant and refugee writing.

    By Aaron Robertson  February 14, 2020
    The Hub

    Shocking truth about Donald Trump revealed in new book: He’s really into badgers.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 14, 2020
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