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The CIA-Soviet Culture Wars That Shaped American Art

The CIA-Soviet Culture Wars That Shaped American Art

Who's Afraid of Communist Writers?

By Juliana Spahr | November 16, 2018

How America Remembers Emmett Till

How America Remembers Emmett Till

"Hatred could not justify child murder, but fear could."

By Elliott Gorn | November 15, 2018

The Philosophy of the Belly Dancer

The Philosophy of the Belly Dancer

On Sex, Performance, and the Private Desires of the Very Rich

By L.L. Wynn | November 12, 2018

Silicon Valley's Radical New Idea: Treat Employees Well

Silicon Valley's Radical New Idea: Treat Employees Well

How Did It Become Novel to Care About Workers?

By Dan Lyons | November 7, 2018

How to Sell a Candidate to the Public: Andrew Jackson Edition

How to Sell a Candidate to the Public: Andrew Jackson Edition

On the Dark Tradition of American Populism

By davidandjeanneheidler | November 6, 2018

Eula Biss: Grappling with Whiteness in Two Iowa Towns

Eula Biss: Grappling with Whiteness in Two Iowa Towns

"I saw my whiteness, dancing there, mocking me, daring me to try to understand it."

By Eula Biss | November 6, 2018

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They Don't Kill Us Because of How We Pray

By Emily Geminder | November 5, 2018

Lewis Lapham: Of America and the Rise of the Stupefied Plutocrat

By Lewis Lapham | November 1, 2018

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How Gerrymandering is Destroying American Democracy

How Gerrymandering is Destroying American Democracy

Your Nightmare Scenario for the 2018 Midterms

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Elie Wiesel on the Problem with Tolerance

Elie Wiesel on the Problem with Tolerance

"What Can I Learn From the Other? What Does He See That I Cannot?"

By Ariel Burger | November 1, 2018

Jose Antonio Vargas: Appearing Undocumented on Fox News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Appearing Undocumented on Fox News

On Patience in the Face of Bigotry (and Tucker Carlson)

By Jose Antonio Vargas | November 1, 2018

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario's Letters Home from Iraq

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario's Letters Home from Iraq

"I am still in Baghdad. I almost died yesterday, and the day before, and am tired and stressed."

By Lynsey Addario | October 30, 2018

Searching for Graham Greene's Havana

Searching for Graham Greene's Havana

Sarah Rainsford Follows Our Man in Havana to the Floridita and Other Haunts

By Sarah Rainsford | October 29, 2018

The Thin Line Between Liberalism  and Totalitarianism

The Thin Line Between Liberalism and Totalitarianism

Helena Rosenblatt on the 20th-Century Reinvention of a Political Idea

By Helena Rosenblatt | October 29, 2018

The Souls of Latarian Milton

The Souls of Latarian Milton

When Young Black Boys Come to a Crossroads

By Donald Quist | October 29, 2018

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