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Remembering Samuel Roth, the Bookseller Who Defied America’s Obscenity Laws

Remembering Samuel Roth, the Bookseller Who Defied America’s Obscenity Laws

Ed Simon on Free Speech, Book Bans and Court-Mandated Censorship, Then and Now

By Ed Simon | July 3, 2024

Support One Moment, Racism the Next: On Being a Black Nigerian Man in America

Support One Moment, Racism the Next: On Being a Black Nigerian Man in America

Samuel Kọláwọlé Recounts His Painful Entry Into the United States

By Samuel Kóláwólé | July 3, 2024

How Do We Balance the Needs of the Earth With the Needs of Humanity?

How Do We Balance the Needs of the Earth With the Needs of Humanity?

C.L. Skach Considers the Arbitrary Nature of the Laws That Govern Our Relationship With the Land

By C. L. Skach | July 2, 2024

Is it the summer of the brat?

Is it the summer of the brat?

By Brittany Allen | July 1, 2024

Blood-Soaked Handkerchiefs and Burnt Dresses: The Lizzie Borden Trial, as Told in a Newspaper of the Time

Blood-Soaked Handkerchiefs and Burnt Dresses: The Lizzie Borden Trial, as Told in a Newspaper of the Time

The Journalist and Suffragist Elizabeth Garver Jordan Covers a Macabre Media Sensation

By Elizabeth Garver Jordan | July 1, 2024

What We Can Learn From the Boy Scouts of America’s Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality

What We Can Learn From the Boy Scouts of America’s Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality

Mike De Socio on the Legal and Cultural Battle for Queer Rights and Recognition Within an All-American Institution

By Mike De Socio | June 28, 2024

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Why American Journalists Should Be Outraged About the Dozens of Palestinian Journalists Jailed in Israel

Why American Journalists Should Be Outraged About the Dozens of Palestinian Journalists Jailed in Israel

"If journalism is not a crime, then it should not be treated as a crime by any government for any journalist."

By Steven W. Thrasher | June 21, 2024

How Activists Across the Pacific Northwest Planned the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests

How Activists Across the Pacific Northwest Planned the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests

DW Gibson Looks Back on the Environmentalist and Anti-Globalization Movements of the 1990s

By DW Gibson | June 21, 2024

Nikole Hannah-Jones Reflects on the Most Important Historical Project of Our Generation

Nikole Hannah-Jones Reflects on the Most Important Historical Project of Our Generation

In Conversation with Channler Twyman on Five Years of "The 1619 Project"

By Channler Twyman | June 19, 2024

The Indian government is planning to prosecute Arundhati Roy.

The Indian government is planning to prosecute Arundhati Roy.

By Brittany Allen | June 17, 2024

Francine Prose on the Unfinished Sexual Revolution of the 1970s

Francine Prose on the Unfinished Sexual Revolution of the 1970s

“We were not supposed to notice the gap between what we were supposed to feel and what we felt.”

By Francine Prose | June 17, 2024

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