The Spy Who Shushed Me: How the Government Is Removing Our Right to Read in Private

The Spy Who Shushed Me: How the Government Is Removing Our Right to Read in Private

On the Links Between FBI's Controversial Library Awareness Program, the Patriot Act, and Book Bans Today

By Anthony Aycock | September 18, 2023

Recognition Chains: How Digital Platforms Influence What We Consume

Recognition Chains: How Digital Platforms Influence What We Consume

Harvard Sociologist Michèle Lamont on the Transformation of the Media

By Michèle Lamont | September 18, 2023

Andy Borowitz and A. J. Jacobs on Living in the Age of Ignorance

Andy Borowitz and A. J. Jacobs on Living in the Age of Ignorance

The Authors of Profiles in Ignorance and The Year of Living Biblically in Conversation

By Literary Hub | September 14, 2023

Parole For Pay: How America's Criminal Justice System Was Slowly Privatized

Parole For Pay: How America's Criminal Justice System Was Slowly Privatized

Vincent Schiraldi on the Unholy Marriage of Fiscal Conservatism and Law and Order

By Vincent Schiraldi | September 12, 2023

Nikhil Goyal on the Ongoing Struggle for American Public Education

Nikhil Goyal on the Ongoing Struggle for American Public Education

Diane Ravitch Talks to the Author of Live to See the Day

By Diane Ravitch | September 8, 2023

“Code words to say what can’t be said”: James Hannaham Talks to a Writer in Solitary Confinement

“Code words to say what can’t be said”: James Hannaham Talks to a Writer in Solitary Confinement

Kwaneta Harris and James Hannaham on Queerness and the Silencing of the Incarcerated

By Moira Marquis | September 5, 2023

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How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America

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Dotted Lines: On Writing and Humiliation Under Iranian Censorship

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"A time will come when our stories shall be told in their entirety."

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The Battle to Fulfill the Racial Promise of Shaker Heights

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Laura Meckler on Belonging, Interracial Adoption, and the "American dream town" in Ohio

By Laura Meckler | August 22, 2023

Violence Against Women: Where Fact Meets Fiction

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Peace Adzo Medie on Writing and Researching Gender Violence in West Africa

By Peace Adzo Medie | August 17, 2023

Efforts That Were Wide-Ranging, Sordid, Chaotic, and Dangerous: Matthew Teague on the Indictment in Georgia

Efforts That Were Wide-Ranging, Sordid, Chaotic, and Dangerous: Matthew Teague on the Indictment in Georgia

Co-Author of The Steal on the "Remarkable Document"

By Matthew Teague | August 15, 2023

Ece Temelkuran on Social Media's Failure to Change the World

Ece Temelkuran on Social Media's Failure to Change the World

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The Other Side of Money: On the Stories We Tell about Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality

The Other Side of Money: On the Stories We Tell about Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality

Bette Adriaanse Considers Capitalism, Art, and How Change Happens

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