How to write a funny book about American immigration.

How to write a funny book about American immigration.

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How Two of America’s Biggest Columnists Reacted to the Assassination of Malcolm X

How Two of America’s Biggest Columnists Reacted to the Assassination of Malcolm X

Ted Hamm on Jimmy Breslin and Langston Hughes

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Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

“The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.”

By Judith Butler | February 20, 2025

How Democracy Supporters Can Still Beat Back the Rising Tide of Fascism

How Democracy Supporters Can Still Beat Back the Rising Tide of Fascism

Katherine Stewart on the Internal Contradictions of the Current American Antidemocratic Movement

By Katherine Stewart | February 20, 2025

If Trump can’t kill you, he wants to hurt you.

If Trump can’t kill you, he wants to hurt you.

By James Folta | February 19, 2025

In Purging Language About Trans People, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Trying to Purge the People Themselves

In Purging Language About Trans People, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Trying to Purge the People Themselves

Gabrielle Bellot on the Radical Power of Words As Weapons

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 19, 2025

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Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

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Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

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How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

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Chad Sanders on Learning to Process the Societal and Psychological Effects of Anti-Blackness

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Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump

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Rob Spillman Worries About the Growing Specter of Self-Censorship

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Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

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Rich Benjamin on Daniel Fignolé, Papa Doc Duvalier, and the Kidnapping That Changed His Family

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How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida.

How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida.

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Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

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The Great (Un)Equalizer: How Black and Native Families Struggle to Achieve Social Mobility Through Education

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Eve L. Ewing on the Structural Factors Behind Economic and Educational Inequality in America

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