• Politics

    Keen On

    Peter Baker and Susan Glasser on The Man Who Ran Washington

    By Keen On  September 17, 2021
    Open Source

    Tragic Architecture: A History of the World Trade Center and the Unluckiest Architect You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Open Source  September 17, 2021
    The Hub

    A new study suggests that backlash against critical race theory is linked to white fear.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  September 16, 2021
    Feminism

    Coming of Age and Questioning Traditional Rituals at a Boarding School in Kenya

    By Nice Leng'ete  September 16, 2021
    Keen On

    Keith Boykin on the End of the White Majority in America

    By Keen On  September 16, 2021
    Storytelling

    On the Subversive Power of Gossip

    By Maria Tatar  September 15, 2021
    Reading Women

    When Incarceration Comes Home: On Prison “Reforms” That Still Do Harm

    By Reading Women  September 15, 2021
    The Hub

    New Yorker editor calls out her own magazine for woeful record on diversity.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 14, 2021
    Feminism

    Why an Early Feminist Advocated for the Right to Divorce

    By Luisa Capetillo  September 14, 2021
    The Hub

    One more reason Amazon’s almighty algorithm is bad for us.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Nicaragua has ordered the arrest of award-winning author Sergio Ramírez.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 10, 2021
    War

    “I Would Not Take Prisoners.” Tolstoy’s Case Against Making War Humane

    By Samuel Moyn  September 10, 2021
    On Racism

    Assimilation and Erasure: How Imposter Syndrome Traps People of Color

    By Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez  September 10, 2021
    The Hub

    The Guardian published a Judith Butler interview—and then deleted an answer about TERFS.

    By Walker Caplan  September 9, 2021
    Residencies

    Writing Black Essays in White People’s Houses

    By Jill Louise Busby  September 9, 2021
    Keen On

    Philip Stephens on Not-So-Great Britain

    By Keen On  September 9, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Anne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg’s Early Days

    By Just the Right Book   September 9, 2021
    Vaccines

    On the Race to a COVID Vaccine (and Power, and Profit)

    By Adam Tooze  September 8, 2021
    Activism

    On Miss America’s Brief—But Real—Activist Phase

    By Amy Argetsinger  September 7, 2021
    Space!

    When Ray Bradbury Asked John F. Kennedy if He Could Help with the Space Race

    By Shaun Usher  September 7, 2021
    Civil Rights

    How White Violence Turned a Peaceful Civil Rights Demonstration Into Mayhem

    By Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly  September 7, 2021
    The Hub

    A Nazi sympathizer has been sentenced by a court to . . . read more Jane Austen.

    By Walker Caplan  September 3, 2021
    TV

    The Chair Castigates Every Academic Archetype, With Good Reason

    By Olivia Rutigliano  September 3, 2021
    Cities

    Understanding Pakistan Through the Story of Karachi

    By Samira Shackle  September 3, 2021
    Open Source

    A Collective Delusion: On the End of the War in Afghanistan

    By Open Source  September 3, 2021
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