• Politics

    Cundill History Prize

    How the Cultural Revolution Played Society Against Itself

    Tania Branigan on the Enduring Impact of Collective Intergenerational Trauma in China

     
    By Tania Branigan  September 29, 2023
    Motherhood

    We Need a Motherf*cking Break: On Mom Rage and the Fantasy of Joint Custody

    By Minna Dubin  September 21, 2023
    Feminist History

    We Are Not Alone: 50 Years of Ms. Magazine

    By Gloria Steinem  September 20, 2023
    Censorship

    Fire and Fury and the First Amendment: How Trump Tried to Censor His Critics

    By John Sargent  September 20, 2023
    Libraries

    The Spy Who Shushed Me: How the Government Is Removing Our Right to Read in Private

    By Anthony Aycock  September 18, 2023
    Media

    Recognition Chains: How Digital Platforms Influence What We Consume

    By Michèle Lamont  September 18, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Writers in Conversation

    Andy Borowitz and A. J. Jacobs on Living in the Age of Ignorance

    By Literary Hub  September 14, 2023
    Criminal Justice

    Parole For Pay: How America’s Criminal Justice System Was Slowly Privatized

    By Vincent Schiraldi  September 12, 2023
    Education

    Nikhil Goyal on the Ongoing Struggle for American Public Education

    By Diane Ravitch  September 8, 2023
    Militarism

    Agency, Power, and the Armed Forces: On the Shifting Role of Women at War

    Cynthia Enloe Considers the Various Feminist Approaches to Women in the Military

    By Cynthia Enloe  September 22, 2023
    Social Media

    How Big Tech Helps Promote Disinformation—And How It Can Help Stop It

    By Lee McIntyre  August 30, 2023
    Incarcerated Writers

    Good Writing in a Bad Place: How One Incarcerated Writer Feeds His Craft

    By Robert Lee Williams  August 28, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    Rape As a Weapon: A Tragedy Both Ancient and Modern

    By Christina Lamb  August 25, 2023
    Activism

    How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America

    Drew Gilpin Faust on the Gradual Radicalization of Anti-War Student Activism

    By Drew Gilpin Faust  August 24, 2023
    Censorship

    Dotted Lines: On Writing and Humiliation Under Iranian Censorship

    By Moeen Farrokhi  August 24, 2023
    On Race

    The Battle to Fulfill the Racial Promise of Shaker Heights

    By Laura Meckler  August 22, 2023
    Book Research

    Violence Against Women: Where Fact Meets Fiction

    By Peace Adzo Medie  August 17, 2023
    Indictment

    Efforts That Were Wide-Ranging, Sordid, Chaotic, and Dangerous: Matthew Teague on the Indictment in Georgia

    Co-Author of The Steal on the "Remarkable Document"

    By Matthew Teague  August 15, 2023
    Keen On

    Ece Temelkuran on Social Media’s Failure to Change the World

    By Keen On  August 15, 2023
    Money

    The Other Side of Money: On the Stories We Tell about Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality

    By Bette Adriaanse  August 14, 2023
    Open Letters

    Dear Pulitzer Prizes: It’s Time to Recognize Literature by Noncitizens

    By Literary Hub  August 8, 2023
    Climate Crisis

    How the Bush Administration Hid the Dangers Posed by Climate Change

    David Lipsky on the Manipulation of Language Behind Climate Change Denialism

    By David Lipsky  July 31, 2023
    Russia

    “A Small, Vengeful Man:” How Vladimir Putin Began His Iron-Fisted Reign

    By Masha Gessen  July 28, 2023
    European History

    How a Patchwork of Conflicting Narratives Created Contemporary Eastern Europe

    By Jacob Mikanowski  July 24, 2023
    In Conversation

    “Code words to say what can’t be said”: James Hannaham Talks to a Writer in Solitary Confinement

    By Moira Marquis  September 5, 2023
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