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Leanne Shapton on the Desire to Always Go Bigger

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We Need to Radically Rethink the Library of Congress Classification

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Claire Woodcock on the Search for a More Democratic Way of Organizing Knowledge

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Will Smith Should’ve Been Our Rom-Com Hero

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Scott Meslow on the Cost of Hollywood’s Institutional Racism

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Maeve Higgins on The Work in Progress That Is America

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Thomas J. Main on How Improved Identity Politics Can Restore Our Trust in Government

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