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“We don’t want charity. We want jobs!” At the Intersection of the Labor and Disability Rights Movements

“We don’t want charity. We want jobs!” At the Intersection of the Labor and Disability Rights Movements

Kim Kelly on the Disabled Miners Who Fought for Legal Protection

By Kim Kelly | April 27, 2022

Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

Pamela Erens on Middlemarch and the Moral Value of Fiction

By Pamela Erens | April 26, 2022

How the Disappearance of the Dinosaurs Created an Hospitable World for Humans

How the Disappearance of the Dinosaurs Created an Hospitable World for Humans

Riley Black on the Causes and Consequences of the Great Extinction

By Riley Black | April 26, 2022

Kim Kelly Reads From Her Book, <em>Fight Like Hell</em>

Kim Kelly Reads From Her Book, Fight Like Hell

On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

By Storybound | April 26, 2022

“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

Julie Phillips Considers the Groundbreaking British Mother-Writers of the 1960s, from A.S. Byatt to Lorna Sage

By Julie Phillips | April 26, 2022

Has the Second World War Ended Yet?

Has the Second World War Ended Yet?

Richard Overy in Conversation With Andrew Keen

By Keen On | April 26, 2022

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On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

By Katie Bennett | April 25, 2022

Ten Books to Help Understand the Conflicts in South Sudan and Ethiopia

By Caroline Kurtz | April 25, 2022

How To Write History While It’s Happening: Lessons From Tacitus

By Richard Cohen | April 22, 2022

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

For Robert Leleux Finding the One Family More Messed Up Than His Own Was a Life-Saver

By Robert Leleux | April 22, 2022

When Superpowers Lose Their Power, the Chaos of War Follows

When Superpowers Lose Their Power, the Chaos of War Follows

Andrew Keen is Pretty Sure No One’s in Charge

By Andrew Keen | April 22, 2022

Twenty Questions on the War in Ukraine

Twenty Questions on the War in Ukraine

This Week on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon

By Open Source | April 22, 2022

The Erased Lives of Enslaved Women Forced to Have the Children of Their Enslavers

The Erased Lives of Enslaved Women Forced to Have the Children of Their Enslavers

Kristen Green on Mary Lumpkin, Sally Hemings, and Many More Whose Names We Don’t Know

By Kristen Green | April 22, 2022

Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

Paul Fischer’s on a Dark Corner of Motion Picture Lore

By Paul Fischer | April 22, 2022

In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power

In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power

David de Jong on Hermann Göring’s Meeting with Some of Nazi Germany's Wealthiest Businessmen

By David de Jong | April 22, 2022

Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

“Our hopes have been cauterized, our imaginations infected.”

By Arundhati Roy | April 21, 2022

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