Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander Have Shown Us a Way Forward

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander Have Shown Us a Way Forward

Steven W. Thrasher on What a Healthy Progressive Coalition Looks Like

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What Would Happen If the Chatbots Broke Free of Their Masters?

What Would Happen If the Chatbots Broke Free of Their Masters?

Paul Bradley Carr on the Danger—For Tech Bros—of Empathetic, Knowledgable Artificial Intelligence

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The Magical Mundane: Work, Technology and Consumerism in the World of <em>Harry Potter</em>

The Magical Mundane: Work, Technology and Consumerism in the World of Harry Potter

Keridiana Chez Explores the Role of Magic as Instant Gratification and Automation in the Potter-Verse

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Uncaring Healthcare: The Impossible Cost of Being Undocumented and Ill in America

Uncaring Healthcare: The Impossible Cost of Being Undocumented and Ill in America

Alix Dick and Antero Garcia Chronicle Illicit Medical Procedures for Those Lacking Social Security Numbers

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This is how over 40% of NYC bookstores became unionized.

This is how over 40% of NYC bookstores became unionized.

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Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

Aron Solomon Looks at American Law Through a Jazz Age Lens 

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On Egypt’s Unjust Incarceration of the Writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, and the Hunger Strike of Dr. Laila Soueif

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“Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s Charter

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Welcome to Pensacola, Florida, America’s Book-Banning Capital

Welcome to Pensacola, Florida, America’s Book-Banning Capital

Ira Wells on the Emergence and Impact of a Powerful Political Movement In Service to Censorship

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How a Single Court Case Could Determine the Future of Book Banning in America

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Anthony Aycock on “Little v. Llano County” and the Increasingly Imperiled Freedom to Read in America

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