• Politics

    Keen On

    Why Being American Shouldn’t Require Cultural Assimilation

    By Keen On  March 31, 2022
    Neoliberalism

    Why Margaret Thatcher Waged War on the BBC

    By David Hendy  March 30, 2022
    Colonialism

    On the Hypocrisies and Violent Legacies of British Imperialism

    By Caroline Elkins  March 30, 2022
    Keen On

    The Biblical Story of Leonard Cohen’s October 1973 Resurrection in the Sinai Desert

    By Keen On  March 30, 2022
    Keen On

    Exposing the 21st-Century Slave Trade on the Shores of the Mediterranean

    By Keen On  March 30, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Trump is More of a Symptom Than a Cause of Today’s Crisis of American Democracy

    By Keen On  March 30, 2022
    Keen On

    How Women (and Moths) Are Leading Today’s Struggle to Unionize Workers

    By Keen On  March 30, 2022
    The Hub

    Target removed many LGBTQ+ books from their website. No one knows exactly why.

    By Walker Caplan  March 29, 2022
    Keen On

    Marie Yovanovitch: Why Trump Might Be More Like Putin Than We’d Like to Think

    By Keen On  March 29, 2022
    Demographics

    What a Country’s Demographic Age Can Tell Us About Its Future

    By Jennifer D. Sciubba  March 28, 2022
    Keen On

    Michael Ignatieff on Why We Can’t Take the Nuclear Option Off the Table in Ukraine

    By Keen On  March 28, 2022
    American Politics

    How the Democrats Ditched Economic Populism for Neoliberalism

    By Michael Kazin  March 28, 2022
    Open Source

    Lessons Learned from a Tyrant’s Unspeakable War on Ukraine

    By Open Source  March 25, 2022
    Keen On

    Shadows of WWII in Ukraine: The Life and Afterlife the Second World War

    By Andrew Keen  March 25, 2022
    Ukraine

    “I pretend death doesn’t exist.” New Poetry From Ukraine by Iryna Shuvalova

    By Literary Hub  March 24, 2022
    Voting

    An Argument for Requiring Americans to Vote

    By E.J. Dionne Jr. and Miles Rapoport  March 24, 2022
    Refugees

    How Aborted Journeys Mean Aborted Dreams for Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean

    By Sally Hayden  March 24, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    “One of the Worst Places on Earth”: Mansoor Adayfi on the 20th Anniversary of Guantánamo Bay Prison

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Travel Truth #1: It Doesn’t Matter How Far We Go, We’ll Never Escape Ourselves

    By Keen On  March 24, 2022
    Keen On

    How to Avoid Civil War in America By Creating a Post-Racial Civic Identity

    By Keen On  March 24, 2022
    The Hub

    An Oklahoma lawmaker just compared librarians to cockroaches. It’s as bad as it sounds.

    By Walker Caplan  March 23, 2022
    Shame

    How Public Shaming Helps Society Maintain Its Norms and Ethical Standards

    By Cathy O'Neil  March 22, 2022
    Immigration stories

    The Goalposts Are Always Moving: What It Means to “Become” American

    By Julissa Arce  March 22, 2022
    Ancient Rome

    How Ancient Rome’s Descent Into Autocracy Mirrors the Fragility of Our Own Political Systems

    By Barry Strauss  March 22, 2022
    The Hub

    Lambda Literary cuts Lauren Hough from award shortlist because of “Twitter disputes.” 

    By Jonny Diamond  March 21, 2022
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