• Politics

    Motherhood

    Love Warriors: Women of Color Doulas in a Time of Crisis

    By Jennifer C. Nash  August 20, 2021
    The War on Terror

    Waiting in Darkness: My Time At Guantánamo

    By Mansoor Adayfi  August 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Two members of PEN International have been murdered by the Taliban.

    By Walker Caplan  August 19, 2021
    American History

    “Americans Are Bad at History.” At the Fault Lines of Memory and Propaganda

    By Patrick Nathan  August 19, 2021
    Feminism

    How the War On Terror Became America’s First “Feminist” War

    By Rafia Zakaria  August 19, 2021
    Political History

    Toward a Binational Alternative in Israel: On the Illusion of the Two State Solution

    By Omri Boehm  August 19, 2021
    Feminism

    What We Can Learn from Feminist Rage

    By Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar  August 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Looks like Ted Cruz’s campaign artificially boosted his book sales.

    By Walker Caplan  August 17, 2021
    Time

    How Surrendering to Communal Time Can Make Us All Happier

    By Oliver Burkeman  August 17, 2021
    The Hub

    The winner of a prestigious Dutch literary prize has come under fire for “inappropriate” comments.

    By Walker Caplan  August 16, 2021
    America

    The Cognitive Dissonance of America: Writing Through the Terror of Trumpland

    By Brian Castleberry  August 16, 2021
    Police

    Fictionalizing a Dark Chapter in the History of Milwaukee Policing

    By Willa C. Richards  August 13, 2021
    Education

    Pushing Boundaries, Claiming Power, Creating Space: A “Ratchetdemic” Manifesto

    By Christopher Emdin  August 13, 2021
    Immigration

    Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

    By Elly Fishman  August 12, 2021
    Freedom of Speech

    Hateful Fictions: Siri Hustvedt on the Weaponization of Free Speech

    By Siri Hustvedt  August 11, 2021
    The Hub

    After a month of major controversies, the American Booksellers Association has responded.

    By Walker Caplan  August 10, 2021
    Terrorism

    The White Christian Nationalism Behind the Worst Terrorist Attack in American History

    By Spencer Ackerman  August 10, 2021
    Capitalism

    On the Political Movement for Opening National Borders

    By Justin Akers Chacón  August 10, 2021
    Haiti

    What It Means to Be Haitian Now

    By Jean D’Amérique  August 9, 2021
    On Race

    What Visiting Plantations Taught Me About Historical Erasure

    By LaTanya McQueen  August 9, 2021
    Education

    The Power of the Collective: How Lebron James Got Into Education Reform

    By Tracy Swinton Bailey  August 9, 2021
    Sociology

    To Be Popular You Must Already Be Popular: On the Dangers of the Bandwagon Effect

    By Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein  August 5, 2021
    Keen On

    Edward J. Watts on the Fall of Rome and the Dangerous Rhetoric of Decline

    By Keen On  August 5, 2021
    Police Violence

    Why We Have Police: Race, Class, and Labor Control

    By Philip V. McHarris  August 4, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    On Lebanon’s Water Crisis and the Long Fallout of the Civil War

    By Charif Majdalani  August 4, 2021
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