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What the Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment of Marvin Anderson Reveals About the American Legal System

What the Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment of Marvin Anderson Reveals About the American Legal System

Daniel S. Medwed on the Biases and Systemic Failures That Keep Innocent People in Prison

By Daniel S. Medwed | September 21, 2022

The Bitter End: The 2020 Election and the Future of American Democracy

The Bitter End: The 2020 Election and the Future of American Democracy

John Sides in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 21, 2022

Screaming in Secret: Dahlia Lithwick on the Women Who Work Within the Legal System

Screaming in Secret: Dahlia Lithwick on the Women Who Work Within the Legal System

“For all the flaws of the legal system, of the court system, and even of the #MeToo movement, it helped us find our way to one another.”

By Dahlia Lithwick | September 20, 2022

What Inspired a Bigoted Media Shock Jock to Start His Own Far-Right Fight Club?

What Inspired a Bigoted Media Shock Jock to Start His Own Far-Right Fight Club?

Andy Campbell on Gavin McInnes, the Founder of the Proud Boys

By Andy Campbell | September 20, 2022

Where Blackness is a World of Possibility

Where Blackness is a World of Possibility

Hafizah Augustus Geter on the Shape of Black Joy

By Hafizah Augustus Geter | September 20, 2022

PEN America documented more than 2,500 book bans during the last school year.

PEN America documented more than 2,500 book bans during the last school year.

By Corinne Segal | September 19, 2022

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Teaching Literature in the New Culture Wars: Some Alternative Approaches

By Deborah Appleman | September 19, 2022

A Brief History of Calling Women Witches

By Eleanor Herman | September 19, 2022

How Barack Obama Helped Joe Biden Become the 46th President of the United States

By Gabriel Debenedetti | September 19, 2022

Why the 9.9% Is Running Our World—and How the 91.1% Need to Fight Back Against This Aristocracy

Why the 9.9% Is Running Our World—and How the 91.1% Need to Fight Back Against This Aristocracy

Matthew Stewart in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 19, 2022

When Collective Trauma Becomes Collective Amnesia: Reading Polina Barskova on Russia’s Myth of Itself

When Collective Trauma Becomes Collective Amnesia: Reading Polina Barskova on Russia’s Myth of Itself

Tanya Paperny on Contemporary Interrogations of Soviet Triumphalism

By Tanya Paperny | September 16, 2022

Christopher M. Finan: How to Battle Book Banning in Your Community

Christopher M. Finan: How to Battle Book Banning in Your Community

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | September 16, 2022

Three Classic Movies to Help Understand Our Conspiratorial Present

Three Classic Movies to Help Understand Our Conspiratorial Present

Andrew Keen Recommends a Little Cinema

By Andrew Keen | September 16, 2022

On the Political Weaponization of Words: From “Miscegenation” to “Groomer”

On the Political Weaponization of Words: From “Miscegenation” to “Groomer”

Bruce Handy Explores the Hoax Behind an Early Case of American Fearmongering

By Bruce Handy | September 15, 2022

The Liberating and Sexual Potential of Gender Nonconformity, circa 1611

The Liberating and Sexual Potential of Gender Nonconformity, circa 1611

Kit Heyam on the Exploits and Influence of Moll Cutpurse

By Dr. Kit Heyam | September 15, 2022

Abundant Joy: 9 Black Diasporic Voices Imagine a Better World

Abundant Joy: 9 Black Diasporic Voices Imagine a Better World

Natasha Marin Asked a Hundred Black Diasporic Voices About Power, Love, and Safety

By Natasha Marin | September 15, 2022

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