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History

China

How China’s Uyghurs Are Marginalized and Subjugated by the State

By Gulchehra Hoja  February 23, 2023
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Jonathan Wilson on Whether Palestine Was a Jewish “State in Waiting” During the 1930s

By Keen On  February 23, 2023
Lit Hub Radio

Emmanuel Iduma’s Reckoning with the Silence, Inheritance and History of the Nigerian Civil War

By Keen On  February 23, 2023
Exploration

An Explorer Frozen in Time and a Map for the Mess of Life

By Reid Mitenbuler  February 23, 2023
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Malcolm Harris on the Larger Than Life Characters of Silicon Valley

By Keen On  February 22, 2023
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Nick Tabor on America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community it Created

By Keen On  February 22, 2023
African History

How Nigeria’s Ideological and Ethnic Map Reflects Its Enduring Divides

By Emmanuel Iduma  February 22, 2023
Etymologies

What’s In a Meal? On the Linguistic Origins of “Lunchtime”

By Judith Tschann  February 21, 2023
Medical history

“The Miracle Cure.” A Brief History of Lobotomies

By Jeffrey A. Lieberman  February 21, 2023
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Roger Cohen Meditates on Life, Politics, and How to Rebuild Our Age of Undoing

By Keen On  February 21, 2023
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John Perkins on How China and the United States Both Seek World Hegemony and What We Can Do About It

By Keen On  February 21, 2023
Reading Lists

Heroes, Victims, and Villains: Essential Books About World War II Women

By Christopher C. Gorham  February 17, 2023
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Wojciech Soczewica on Why We Must Never Forget Auschwitz-Birkenau

By Keen On  February 17, 2023
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Lynn Cullen on the Woman Who Pioneered the Polio Vaccine and Changed the World

By Keen On  February 17, 2023
The Maris Review

Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto, the “Town That Efficiency Built”

By The Maris Review  February 16, 2023
Super Heroes

How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

By Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler  February 16, 2023
American History

How One Week in Chicago Changed Abraham Lincoln’s Life—and the Fate of the United States

By Edward Achorn  February 16, 2023
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Remembering an American Writer: Anthony Walton on James Alan McPherson’s Essays and Legacy

By Fiction Non Fiction  February 16, 2023
The CIA

How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments

By Matthew Connelly  February 16, 2023
Sailing

How Sailors Predict Climate and Weather on the Open Ocean

By Elliot Rappaport  February 16, 2023
Basketball

How the Golden State Warriors Became the NBA Champions in a Changing World

By David Hollander  February 15, 2023
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John Cribb on What Both Republicans and Democrats Can Learn From Abraham Lincoln

By Keen On  February 15, 2023
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Adam Brookes on the WWII Race to Save the Treasures of China’s Forbidden City

By Keen On  February 15, 2023
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Martin Wolf on Why Capitalism and Democracy Have Fallen Out of Love (And How to Bring Them Back Together)

By Keen On  February 15, 2023
Sex

Lit Hub’s Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

By Literary Hub  February 14, 2023
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