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What to Do When Your Activism Leads to Threats From the Powerful

What to Do When Your Activism Leads to Threats From the Powerful

Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer on Political Dissent and the Stages of Fear

By Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer | June 30, 2026

Natalie Adler Talks to Sarah Schulman About AIDS History and Dykes Around Town

Natalie Adler Talks to Sarah Schulman About AIDS History and Dykes Around Town

“AIDS was the first thing I knew about sex. It was the first thing I knew about being gay.”

By Sarah Schulman | June 29, 2026

On the First—and, So Far, Only—Book Ban Case Ever Heard by the Supreme Court

On the First—and, So Far, Only—Book Ban Case Ever Heard by the Supreme Court

Anthony Aycock Looks Back at Island Trees v. Pico,

By Anthony Aycock | June 25, 2026

My Mother’s Voice: <br>Messages From Tehran

My Mother’s Voice:
Messages From Tehran

“I would never blame them. But being around Americans while this country is bombing mine is the last thing I can do.”

By Shohreh Laici | June 24, 2026

On One of America’s Great Conspiracy Theorists (and His Yankees vs. Cowboys Theory of History)

On One of America’s Great Conspiracy Theorists (and His Yankees vs. Cowboys Theory of History)

Andrew McKenzie-McHarg Revisits the Grandfather of Rational Paranoia, Carl Oglesby

By Andrew McKenzie-McHarg | June 24, 2026

Are Elder Millennial Women in America Ok? A Historical Accounting

Are Elder Millennial Women in America Ok? A Historical Accounting

Sarah Flocken on What It Means to Be Trapped in Endless Cycles of Belief and Cynicism

By Sarah Flocken | June 23, 2026

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On Integrating Unions and Finding “Good White People” in Midcentury Minnesota

By Justin Ellis | June 23, 2026

Five Anti-Colonial Travel Narratives You Should Read Before Your Next Trip

By Terria Smith | June 23, 2026

How to Put an End to Problem of American Gerontocracy (in the Nicest Possible Way)

By Samuel Moyn | June 18, 2026

“Don’t Let Nobody Ever Call You That.” Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor on Finding Confidence in Her Blackness

“Don’t Let Nobody Ever Call You That.” Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor on Finding Confidence in Her Blackness

Navigating the Reality of American Racism with a World-Famous Father

By Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor | June 17, 2026

What is the Future of Ethnic Studies?

What is the Future of Ethnic Studies?

Aaron Boehmer on the Crisis in Academia and George Lipsitz’s Ethnic Studies at the Crossroads

By Aaron Boehmer | June 17, 2026

The Powerful Freedom of BDSM

The Powerful Freedom of BDSM

Angela Jones on the Important Communities Surrounding Kink

By Angela Jones | June 17, 2026

Resistance Against Apartheid Started Young

Resistance Against Apartheid Started Young

Lynda Schuster on the Soweto Uprising in 1970s South Africa

By Lynda Schuster | June 16, 2026

On the Rise of Reluctant Heterosexuality

On the Rise of Reluctant Heterosexuality

Sophie Lewis Considers the Plight of Heterofatalism

By Sophie Lewis | June 16, 2026

Five 70s-era queer magazines to revisit this Pride Month.

Five 70s-era queer magazines to revisit this Pride Month.

By Brittany Allen | June 15, 2026

How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)

How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)

Madeleine Schwartz Recommends Bruna Dantas Lobato, Uwem Akpan, Maeve Brennan, and More

By Madeleine Schwartz | June 15, 2026

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