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Grief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own Story

Grief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own Story

Myriam Gurba in Conversation with the Author of Freedom: Essays

By Myriam Gurba | June 9, 2026

“Sneaking the Scraps Out the Back Door.” On Black Feminist Traditions of Memory Keeping

“Sneaking the Scraps Out the Back Door.” On Black Feminist Traditions of Memory Keeping

Mali D. Collins on Black Motherhood and Community

By Mali D. Collins | June 8, 2026

Memoirs of a Black Cop: Reading Zohran Mamdani’s Newly Appointed Sheriff, Edwin Raymond

Memoirs of a Black Cop: Reading Zohran Mamdani’s Newly Appointed Sheriff, Edwin Raymond

Steven W. Thrasher on the Rise of Copablanda

By Steven W. Thrasher | June 5, 2026

On the Workplace Accident That Changed Amazon Union-Leader Chris Smalls’s Life

On the Workplace Accident That Changed Amazon Union-Leader Chris Smalls’s Life

“It did seem unfair that I got hit by a car while doing my job and ended up getting fired as a result.”

By Chris Smalls | June 5, 2026

How the Politics of Powerlessness Prevents Real Change

How the Politics of Powerlessness Prevents Real Change

Yotam Marom on the Ways Activists Can Better Utilize Their Collective Strength

By Yotam Marom | June 5, 2026

Marjane Satrapi, author of <em> Persepolis, </em> has died at 58.

Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, has died at 58.

By Brittany Allen | June 4, 2026

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The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought

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The Digital Economy is Destroying Our Lives and Our Planet—and AI is Only Going to Make It Worse

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How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms

How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms

Odd Arne Westad on the Lessons We Haven't Learned From the Devastation of the Great War

By Odd Arne Westad | May 27, 2026

On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution

On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution

Sarah M.S. Pearsall Discusses the Bloody History of Pontiac‘s War

By Sarah M. S. Pearsall | May 26, 2026

Does Xi Jinping Really Think China is Athens and the US is Sparta? And is Trump Getting Any of This?

Does Xi Jinping Really Think China is Athens and the US is Sparta? And is Trump Getting Any of This?

Andrew Bayliss Wonders Why the Chinese Leader Keeps Bringing Up the “Thucydides Trap”?

By Andrew Bayliss | May 22, 2026

What Happens When Billionaires Control the Media?

What Happens When Billionaires Control the Media?

Nick Romeo Looks to Aldous Huxley and Gore Vidal for Clues About Where We’re Headed

By Nick Romeo | May 21, 2026

An Exile’s Guide to Losing a Country

An Exile’s Guide to Losing a Country

Ece Temelkuran on the Slow Creep of Authoritarianism

By Ece Temelkuran | May 21, 2026

How Donald Trump and His Allies Seek to Remake American Schools in Their Own Image

How Donald Trump and His Allies Seek to Remake American Schools in Their Own Image

Alison Kinney on the Effects of the Current Right-Wing Rejection of Educational Equity

By Alison Kinney | May 21, 2026

“Faithless and Foolish.” How a Young George Washington Failed Upward Into an Unpaid Internship

“Faithless and Foolish.” How a Young George Washington Failed Upward Into an Unpaid Internship

H.W. Brands on the Early Career of Our First President

By H.W. Brands | May 20, 2026

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