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How Racist Policies Destroyed Public Housing and Created the American Suburbs

How Racist Policies Destroyed Public Housing and Created the American Suburbs

Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis on the Systematic Post-War Displacement of Communities of Color

By Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis | September 25, 2024

What Organized Labor Movements Today Need to Learn from the Cold War Era’s Failures

What Organized Labor Movements Today Need to Learn from the Cold War Era’s Failures

Jeff Schuhrke on Creating a Global Working-Class Movement

By Jeff Schuhrke | September 25, 2024

Isabella Hammad’s (Incomplete) Essential List of Books About Palestine

Isabella Hammad’s (Incomplete) Essential List of Books About Palestine

Featuring Jean Genet, Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, and More

By Isabella Hammad | September 24, 2024

After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All

After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All

“I’m hoping against hope—but I won’t stop believing—I’ll even pray that, after Apalachee, everything will become different.”

By Deirdre Sugiuchi | September 24, 2024

How Jack London Foresaw the Anti-Democratic Future With <em>The Iron Heel</em>

How Jack London Foresaw the Anti-Democratic Future With The Iron Heel

Ken McGoogan on the Dangers of Oligarchic Totalitarian Rule in Fiction and in Real Life

By Ken McGoogan | September 23, 2024

Lifeline, Cash-Grab, Tool for Censorship: Three Incarcerated Readers on eBooks in Prison

Lifeline, Cash-Grab, Tool for Censorship: Three Incarcerated Readers on eBooks in Prison

“Access to reading materials is being stymied via policies that claim security.”

By Literary Hub | September 20, 2024

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The Best Books for Understanding the Far Right “Constitutional Sheriff” Movement

By Jessica Pishko | September 19, 2024

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

By David Browne | September 18, 2024

Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America By Surprise

By Timothy Snyder | September 17, 2024

False Profits: Why I Am Not Teaching in the Classroom This Fall

False Profits: Why I Am Not Teaching in the Classroom This Fall

Steven W. Thrasher on American Campus Crackdowns on Free Assembly

By Steven W. Thrasher | September 16, 2024

How the Far-Right Uses Educational Takeover to Impose Its Agenda

How the Far-Right Uses Educational Takeover to Impose Its Agenda

Jason Stanley on the Ongoing Fight Against Creeping Fascism in American Schools

By Jason Stanley | September 16, 2024

Ghosts, Seen Darkly: Richard Flanagan on Visiting the Site of a Japanese Prison Camp

Ghosts, Seen Darkly: Richard Flanagan on Visiting the Site of a Japanese Prison Camp

The Author of “Question 7” Remembers His Father’s Imprisonment at Ohama Camp

By Richard Flanagan | September 16, 2024

Oxford University Press USA Guild is protesting the firing of 13 unionized staffers.

Oxford University Press USA Guild is protesting the firing of 13 unionized staffers.

By James Folta | September 13, 2024

Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

Ben Ehrenreich on the Riots of Northern England, Then and Now

By Ben Ehrenreich | September 13, 2024

The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

From Dylan C. Penningroth Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Before the Movement”

By Dylan C. Penningroth | September 13, 2024

Thomas Frank on How the Harris-Walz Ticket Can Win Red State Voters

Thomas Frank on How the Harris-Walz Ticket Can Win Red State Voters

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell on “Fiction/Non/Fiction”

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 12, 2024

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