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Why Does a Language Die?

Why Does a Language Die?

On the Slow Demise of Tayap in Papua New Guinea

By Don Kulick | June 18, 2019

On the Syrian Border, 2015, After the Story's

On the Syrian Border, 2015, After the Story's "Gone Elsewhere"

Elliot Ackerman Visits a Refugee Camp Near Tel Abyad

By Elliot Ackerman | June 13, 2019

How the West is Destroying Itself Through Its Fear of Migrants

How the West is Destroying Itself Through Its Fear of Migrants

Suketu Mehta on the Origins of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

By Suketu Mehta | June 13, 2019

PEN America calls for the <em>New York Times</em> to bring back political cartoons.

PEN America calls for the New York Times to bring back political cartoons.

By Aaron Robertson | June 12, 2019

Twitter apparently suspended a journalist's social media account over this book cover.

Twitter apparently suspended a journalist's social media account over this book cover.

By Corinne Segal | June 12, 2019

The Traffic Stop: One of the Great Abuses of Police Power in Contemporary Life

The Traffic Stop: One of the Great Abuses of Police Power in Contemporary Life

Dan Albert on an Obsolete Enforcement Practice That Just Won't Die

By Dan Albert | June 12, 2019

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How Beyoncé Revolutionized the American Political Landscape

By Kevin Allred | June 11, 2019

On the Rise of the Feminist Internet

By Linda Hirshman | June 11, 2019

With Apologies to Orwell, We've Gone Way Past 1984

By Dorian Lynskey | June 7, 2019

Selahattin Demirtaş Writes From a High Security Turkish Prison

Selahattin Demirtaş Writes From a High Security Turkish Prison

"The words in my head have never been so free."

By Selahattin Demirtaş | June 6, 2019

Why Cities Lose in Winner-Takes-All Elections

Why Cities Lose in Winner-Takes-All Elections

Jonathan A. Rodden on the Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide

By Jonathan A. Rodden | June 6, 2019

Can Democracy Survive Contemporary Capitalism?

Can Democracy Survive Contemporary Capitalism?

Astra Taylor on Democracy's Nonexistence and the Wealthy's Determination to Keep it Out of America

By Astra Taylor | June 5, 2019

70 Years of Misapplied Allegory: Happy Birthday <em>1984</em>!

70 Years of Misapplied Allegory: Happy Birthday 1984!

John Rodden on the Ways We Use Orwell to Talk About American Presidents

By John Rodden | June 5, 2019

Life on the Margins in a Kingdom of Cartels

Life on the Margins in a Kingdom of Cartels

On the Rise and Fall of Mexico's Narco Empire

By Dan Werb | June 5, 2019

Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

Jill Lepore on Early American Ideas of Nationalism

"Inevitably, the age of national bootblacks and national oyster houses and national blacksmiths produced national history books."

By Jill Lepore | June 4, 2019

The Dark Side of the <br>Chinese Dream

The Dark Side of the
Chinese Dream

Ma Jian on the Short Path from Utopia to Dystopia

By Ma Jian | June 3, 2019

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