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We Need a New American Holiday Commemorating the 14th Amendment

We Need a New American Holiday Commemorating the 14th Amendment

Anthony McCann on the Constitutional Confusion of the So-Called American Patriot Movement

By Anthony McCann | July 9, 2019

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Irene Goldman-Price on Wharton's Little-Known Book of Poems on Love, Loss, and Regret

By Irene Goldman-Price | July 9, 2019

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Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

On Community, Violence, and Telling Stories of Trauma

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In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

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We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's <em>1984</em>

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Previewing the First Ever LGBTQ+ Rare Books Auction

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