• Politics

    Keen On

    Joseph Weisberg on Russia and America, the Very Best of Enemies

    By Keen On  September 28, 2021
    Keen On

    Kristin Henning on the Foundations of Racist Policing in America

    By Keen On  September 28, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2021
    Fascism

    Ezra Pound’s Unrepentant Ties With Fascist Italy

    By Lauren Arrington  September 27, 2021
    Cities

    Safety and the City: Why Women Have Never Relied on the Police for Protection

    By Leslie Kern  September 27, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Climate Change is Here… So How Do We Adapt?

    By Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani  September 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Sigh: Kansas City parents are protesting a library over a children’s book about puberty.

    By Walker Caplan  September 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Oh god: nonsensical conservative polemic American Marxism has sold a million copies.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 23, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 23, 2021
    Drugs

    Reefer Madness: How Did We End Up with the Lazy Stoner Stereotype?

    By Josiah Hesse  September 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Connor Towne O’Neill on the Ugly Legacy of White Supremacy

    By Keen On  September 23, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Mansoor Adayfi and Antonio Aiello on Reckoning With and Understanding Guantánamo

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 23, 2021
    American Politics

    Imagining the Possible, Committing to Action: On Creating a Racially Just America

    By Keith Boykin  September 22, 2021
    The Hub

    After student protests, a Pennsylvania school district has reversed its ban on diverse books.

    By Walker Caplan  September 21, 2021
    Migration

    Hundreds of Young Swedish Asylum-Seekers Are Falling Unconscious. Why?

    By Suzanne O'Sullivan  September 21, 2021
    Keen On

    Tom Nichols on the Rise of Illiberalism

    By Keen On  September 21, 2021
    Protest

    The Legacy of Colin Kaepernick: On the First High School Team to Take a Knee

    By Dave Zirin  September 20, 2021
    Poetry

    What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State

    By Aruni Kashyap  September 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Pennsylvania students are protesting their school district’s ban on books by authors of color.

    By Walker Caplan  September 17, 2021
    American History

    Lessons Not Yet Learned: How Post-Civil War Reconstruction Never Ended

    By Eric Foner  September 17, 2021
    Chinese History

    How Ancient Chinese Philosophical Frameworks Dictated the Politics of Water

    By Giulio Boccaletti  September 17, 2021
    Keen On

    William M. Arkin on How the US Government Failed its Citizens on 9/11

    By Keen On  September 17, 2021
    Keen On

    Peter Baker and Susan Glasser on The Man Who Ran Washington

    By Keen On  September 17, 2021
    Open Source

    Tragic Architecture: A History of the World Trade Center and the Unluckiest Architect You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Open Source  September 17, 2021
    The Hub

    A new study suggests that backlash against critical race theory is linked to white fear.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  September 16, 2021
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