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    On the Way the Criminal Justice System Fails Our Poor Communities

    By Judge Victoria Pratt  May 12, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Daisy Pitkin on the Challenges Facing American Workers Today

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 12, 2022
    Book Dreams

    What Happens When a Group of Outsiders Undertakes a Wildly Bold Social Experiment

    By Book Dreams  May 12, 2022
    Civil Rights

    At the Women’s House of Detention, the Intersecting Influences of Black and Gay Liberation Movements

    By Hugh Ryan  May 12, 2022
    Open Letters

    A Letter from Eileen Myles to Save East River Park

    By Eileen Myles  May 12, 2022
    Keen On

    How the Legacy of Jim Crow Still Infects American Schools

    By Keen On  May 12, 2022
    Ukraine

    The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language

    By Askold Melnyczuk  May 11, 2022
    Colonialism

    What Writing a Book on India Showed Me About Colonial Myths

    By Reema Patel  May 11, 2022
    public health

    From Pandemics to Nuclear Power: Why People Why People Take the Risks They Do

    By Vaclav Smil  May 11, 2022
    Trafficking survivors

    The Inspiration Behind Sara’s Law Tells Her Story

    By Cori Thomas  May 11, 2022
    The Hub

    Courageous Afghan teenagers help start an underground book club in defiance of Taliban.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 9, 2022
    Music history

    Lyrical Black Face: The Truth About “My Old Kentucky Home”

    By Emily Bingham  May 9, 2022
    Queers at the End of the World

    Will Our Bodies Know What to Do at the End of the World?

    By Queers at the End of the World  May 9, 2022
    Keen On

    How Poets Could Bring Peace to Israel and Palestine

    By Keen On  May 9, 2022
    Abortion

    “Women afraid of dying while / they are trying to find their life.” Poetry of Abortion by Alissa Quart

    By Katha Pollitt and Alissa Quart  May 6, 2022
    Patriarchy

    Lara Bazelon on the Knife’s Edge That Ambitious Women Must Navigate

    By Lara Bazelon  May 6, 2022
    Abortion

    Why Roe v. Wade Was Just the Beginning of a Long Fight

    By Lauren Rankin  May 6, 2022
    Open Source

    Scott Nelson: The War in Ukraine is a War for Wheat and Corn

    By Open Source  May 6, 2022
    American Presidents

    How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

    By Julia Sweig  May 6, 2022
    The Internet

    How the Threat of Abuse Silences Women Online

    By Nina Jankowicz  May 6, 2022
    Keen On

    Can Conservatives Be Funny?

    By Keen On  May 6, 2022
    Keen On

    The Moral Case for Demilitarizing the Southern Border

    By Keen On  May 6, 2022
    The Hub

    A bookstore owner’s petition to make Harriet Tubman Day a holiday is at 8,000 signatures.

    By Corinne Segal  May 5, 2022
    Social Media

    How Did James Baldwin Become a 21st-Century Influencer?

    By Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster  May 5, 2022
    Reproductive Rights

    What It Means to Anthologize the Literature of Abortion

    By Literary Hub  May 5, 2022
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