• Politics

    Nationalism

    The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

    By Stephanie Newman  October 17, 2019
    Politics

    Anyone But the People: Rebecca Solnit on the Party of Trump’s Attack on Democracy

    By Rebecca Solnit  October 11, 2019
    News and Culture

    On the Front lines of Indigenous Activism

    By Jasilyn Charger  October 11, 2019
    Dictators

    In the Age of Political Thugs

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  October 11, 2019
    Feminism

    When Your Book Finds a New Voice, 50 Years Later

    By Alix Kates Shulman  October 8, 2019
    Feminism

    On the Endless Parade of Literary Dead Girls

    By Zefyr Lisowski  October 7, 2019
    Fascism

    On the Far Right Past of Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of Ikea

    By Elisabeth Åsbrink  October 7, 2019
    Political History

    America in Mosul: An Account of the Occupation
    of an Iraqi City

    By James Verini  October 7, 2019
    Immigration

    On the Universal Urgency of Immigrant Literature

    By Christopher Castellani  October 7, 2019
    Women's Anger

    On Finding the Freedom to Rage Against Our Fathers

    By Minda Honey  October 7, 2019
    Remembering

    Stand With Us at the 2019 Border of Lights Virtual Vigil

    By Julia Alvarez  October 4, 2019
    Money

    The Congressional Climate Change Committee That Went Toe-to-Toe With the Koch Brothers

    By Christopher Leonard  October 4, 2019
    #MeToo

    What Can a Hashtag Do?

    By Elizabeth Losh  October 4, 2019
    Anti-Colonialism

    The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin’s Last Two Unfinished Works

    By Bill V. Mullen  October 4, 2019
    Anger

    From the Unabomber to the Incels: Angry Young Men on Campus

    By Eileen Pollack  October 4, 2019
    Capitalism

    Inside the Daily Horrors of
    a Factory Farm

    By Jean-Baptiste Del Amo  October 3, 2019
    #MeToo

    Lacy Johnson: Men in Power and the
    Lies They Tell

    By Lacy M. Johnson  October 2, 2019
    The Labor Movement

    On One of the Great Unsung Heroes of the American Labor Movement

    By Stephen Harrigan  October 2, 2019
    Journalism

    Why Newspaper “Scoops” Don’t Work in Narrative Nonfiction

    By Steve Luxenberg  October 1, 2019
    Economics

    Are Civilization and Income Inequality Inextricably Intertwined?

    By Christopher Ryan  October 1, 2019
    Activism

    On Dog Whistle Politics, Gaslighting, and Other Contemporary Political Tools

    By Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith  September 30, 2019
    European History

    How the Nazis Rose to Power as an Extremist Coalition of the Discontented

    By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson  September 30, 2019
    African Literature

    In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

    By Marcia Lynx Qualey  September 27, 2019
    The Hub

    A new guide from PEN America provides some answers on campus “free speech” controversies.

    By Corinne Segal  September 26, 2019
    American Spies

    The Day I Found Out My Father Was a Spy

    By Steve Healey  September 26, 2019
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