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Any Coloradan with a cell phone will soon be able to access banned books for free.

Any Coloradan with a cell phone will soon be able to access banned books for free.

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Funeral For a Postponed Death: On Burying Argentina’s Disappeared

Funeral For a Postponed Death: On Burying Argentina’s Disappeared

Mariana Enriquez: “How beautiful cemeteries are.... Where the name and the date remain, a voice that says: I was here, now I’m gone.”

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Re(se)a(r)ching For Connection: Navigating the Fact and Fiction of Alien Abduction Stories

Re(se)a(r)ching For Connection: Navigating the Fact and Fiction of Alien Abduction Stories

Ilana Masad: “It’s in trying to reach beyond our limited selves that we are, I believe, most human.”

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Who Was the Real, Historical Mary, Mother of Jesus?

Who Was the Real, Historical Mary, Mother of Jesus?

James D. Tabor on the Lesser-Examined Side of a Central Figure of the Christian Faith

By James D. Tabor | September 30, 2025

When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis

When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis

Christopher C. Gorham on Art Theft and Artistic Solidarity in Occupied France

By Christopher C. Gorham | September 29, 2025

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How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

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Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library.

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How Modern Life Has Been Shaped By the Power to Choose

How Modern Life Has Been Shaped By the Power to Choose

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By Sophia Rosenfeld | September 26, 2025

How the German Peasants’ War Exposed 16th-Century Europe’s Fragile Foundations

How the German Peasants’ War Exposed 16th-Century Europe’s Fragile Foundations

From Lyndal Roper's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Summer of Fire and Blood”

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From Leninism to Legalism: On the Ideological Evolution of Soviet Dissidents

From Leninism to Legalism: On the Ideological Evolution of Soviet Dissidents

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Why are we so obsessed (lately) with TV shows about dying media?

Why are we so obsessed (lately) with TV shows about dying media?

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Bartolomé de las Casas, Witness to the Violent Conquest of the Americas

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What <em>Pride and Prejudice</em> Tells Us About British History, Class, and Women’s Leisure Time

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The Other King Henry: On the Many Afterlives of Haiti’s Misunderstood Henry Christophe

The Other King Henry: On the Many Afterlives of Haiti’s Misunderstood Henry Christophe

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