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Wife, Mother, Labor Organizer: On the Hidden Activist Life of Betty Friedan

Wife, Mother, Labor Organizer: On the Hidden Activist Life of Betty Friedan

Haley Mlotek Explores the Tension Between the Political and the Personal For the Author of “The Feminine Mystique”

By Haley Mlotek | February 18, 2025

How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

Leaning Into the Death of Lean-In Feminism and Its Many Resurrections in Our Conflicted Zeitgeist

By Sophie Lewis | February 18, 2025

Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Maya & Natasha”

By Jane Ciabattari | February 18, 2025

How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

Chad Sanders on Learning to Process the Societal and Psychological Effects of Anti-Blackness

By Chad Sanders | February 14, 2025

Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Rob Spillman Worries About the Growing Specter of Self-Censorship

By Rob Spillman | February 13, 2025

Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

Rich Benjamin on Daniel Fignolé, Papa Doc Duvalier, and the Kidnapping That Changed His Family

By Rich Benjamin | February 13, 2025

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  • Mass Mothering
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How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida.

By James Folta | February 12, 2025

Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

By Nicki Kattoura | February 12, 2025

The Great (Un)Equalizer: How Black and Native Families Struggle to Achieve Social Mobility Through Education

By Eve L. Ewing | February 12, 2025

From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism

From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism

“Fiction offers us a way of looking at people’s interior and interconnected lives that... holds space for contradiction.”

By Alejandro Heredia | February 12, 2025

Late capitalism got you down? Join this (free!) Fredric Jameson study group.

Late capitalism got you down? Join this (free!) Fredric Jameson study group.

Care of our friends at Verso Books.

By Brittany Allen | February 11, 2025

How the Horrors of the 20th Century Shaped the Ongoing Moral Catastrophe in Gaza

How the Horrors of the 20th Century Shaped the Ongoing Moral Catastrophe in Gaza

Pankaj Mishra on Nationalism, Modernity and How We Can Best Confront Contemporary Atrocity

By Pankaj Mishra | February 11, 2025

Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

Hanna Phifer in Conversation with the Author of “Perfect Victims”

By Hanna Phifer | February 11, 2025

Truth and Reconciliation: <br>Ten Books That Explore South Africa’s Identity

Truth and Reconciliation:
Ten Books That Explore South Africa’s Identity

Lauren Francis-Sharma Recommends Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, J. M. Coetzee, Mohale Mashigo, and More

By Lauren Francis-Sharma | February 11, 2025

Gird your loins. We're about to get a lot of really bad, state-sponsored art.

Gird your loins. We're about to get a lot of really bad, state-sponsored art.

By Brittany Allen | February 10, 2025

Israeli police raided Palestinian-owned bookstores in Jerusalem and arrested the owners.

Israeli police raided Palestinian-owned bookstores in Jerusalem and arrested the owners.

By James Folta | February 10, 2025

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