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    Activism

    The Political Chaos and Unexpected Activism of the Post-Civil War Era

    By Charles Postel  August 21, 2019
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    Democracy

    Western Democracy is on
    Shaky Ground

    By Simon Reid-Henry  August 20, 2019
    Masters In Conversation

    Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Indian Epics in Modern Novels

    By Literary Hub  August 20, 2019
    Fascism

    Edoardo Albinati on Masculinity, Italy, and Fascism

    By Francesco Pacifico  August 19, 2019
    News and Culture

    Is There Such a Thing as an Ethics of Cosmopolitanism?

    By Martha C. Nussbaum  August 19, 2019
    Feminism

    Feuds, Flings, and High School Sports After Title IX

    By Melissa Isaacson  August 16, 2019
    AIDS

    The Real Heroes:
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    By Hannah Steinkopf-Frank  August 16, 2019
    Economics

    Where Have All the Pirates Gone?

    By Peter Lehr  August 15, 2019
    WWII

    The French Village That Saved Hundreds Fleeing Nazi Persecution

    By Maggie Paxson  August 14, 2019
    On Race

    Ibram X. Kendi: How Racism Relies on Arbitrary Hierarchies

    By Ibram X. Kendi  August 13, 2019
    Animals

    Do We Care Enough About Animals to Save Them From Extinction?

    By Jane Rawson  August 13, 2019
    Encyclopedias

    The Intoxicating Other Worlds of the Encyclopedia

    By David Carlin  August 13, 2019
    Reading Lists

    A Literature of Belonging: Stories of Real America

    By Abby Manzella  August 13, 2019
    Counterculture

    Why Were the 1970s So… Weird?

    By Erik Davis  August 12, 2019
    Speculative fiction

    The Surreal, Virtual Worlds of Palestinian Science Fiction

    By Bhakti Shringarpure  August 9, 2019
    Reading Lists

    5 Artists Who Explore Japanese-American Incarceration and Internment

    By Brandon Shimoda  August 8, 2019
    Feminism

    On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

    By Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner  August 8, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Evolving Monologue in My Head Desde Saturday, August 3rd

    By Oscar Villalon  August 7, 2019
    War

    Lessons From a Decade Reporting on Women During the Iraq War

    By Hannah Allam  August 6, 2019
    Influences

    How the Long Persecution
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    By Shlomo Avineri  August 6, 2019
    White Nationalism

    On White Nationalism and the Lessons of Charlottesville

    By Terry McAuliffe  August 6, 2019
    The Rights of Women

    What Contraception Meant to a Century of Women Writers

    By Julie Phillips  August 5, 2019
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