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Sally Rooney says her books may become unavailable in the UK because of her advocacy for Palestine.

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Progressive Except for Palestine: On Growing Up in Bari Weiss’s “Urban Shtetl”

Progressive Except for Palestine: On Growing Up in Bari Weiss’s “Urban Shtetl”

Laura Kraftowitz Examines the Fault Lines and False Choices of Liberal Judaism

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Why We All Make Sacrifices to the Human-Created God Called “The Economy”

Why We All Make Sacrifices to the Human-Created God Called “The Economy”

Sven Beckert on the Rise of Capitalism As Both an Economic System and a Way of Life

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How Sex Workers Organize For Empowerment Across the Global South

How Sex Workers Organize For Empowerment Across the Global South

T.D. Tso on the Ongoing Struggle Against Victimhood Narratives and For Recognition and Rights

By TD Tso | November 26, 2025

On the Sweeping Supreme Court Decision That Led to Widespread High School Censorship

On the Sweeping Supreme Court Decision That Led to Widespread High School Censorship

Kate Eichhorn Explores the Systematic Erasure of Political Speech in Yearbooks

By Kate Eichhorn | November 25, 2025

Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, shutting down a children's show.

Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, shutting down a children's show.

By Dan Sheehan | November 24, 2025

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How the Psychological Burden of Debt Impacts Our Physical Health

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Aaron Boehmer Situates a True American Tradition in the 21st Century

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The Enduring Global Legacy of the French Revolution

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Violet Kupersmith Considers the Stylistic and Thematic Innovations of a Hidden Gem of Experimental Fiction

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Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend

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Give a Nazi an Inch... And Other Important Lessons From Weimar, Germany

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Volker Ullrich on Wilhelm Frick’s Fascist Cultural Revolution

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