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Sarah Hartshorne: “I didn’t care how I was represented, as long as I was on TV.”

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What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

Peter Balakian on Richard Hofstadter and the Current Assault on Academia

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Surprisingly, the Supreme Court did a good thing for libraries this term.

Surprisingly, the Supreme Court did a good thing for libraries this term.

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Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets to support.

Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets to support.

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Birth of the Jailhouse Lawyer: How Inmate Counsel Saves Prisoners’ Lives

Birth of the Jailhouse Lawyer: How Inmate Counsel Saves Prisoners’ Lives

Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull on William “Joe Writs” Johnson, Law Libraries, and a Constitutional Battle

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How Much is Too Much? On Bearing Witness to Violence in the Digital Age

How Much is Too Much? On Bearing Witness to Violence in the Digital Age

Will Potter Considers the Psychological and Social Impact of the (Over) Saturation of Cruelty in the Contemporary Era

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The Courts Just Made Our Libraries Sitting Ducks For AI Plundering

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Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander Have Shown Us a Way Forward

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Steven W. Thrasher on What a Healthy Progressive Coalition Looks Like

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