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Power That Creates Ideal Futures and Shapes Current Realities: A Reading List of Political Imaginaries

Power That Creates Ideal Futures and Shapes Current Realities: A Reading List of Political Imaginaries

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Why Risk-Taking, Rebellious Immigrants Capture the Spirit of What It Should Mean To Be a 21st-Century “American”

Why Risk-Taking, Rebellious Immigrants Capture the Spirit of What It Should Mean To Be a 21st-Century “American”

Erika L. Sánchez in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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How Colonialism and Patriarchy Create Enduring Misery for Native American Women

How Colonialism and Patriarchy Create Enduring Misery for Native American Women

Sofia Ali-Khan on the Brutal Legacy of the United States’s Westward Expansion

By Sofia Ali-Khan | July 27, 2022

How Pollsters Got the 2016 Election So Wrong, And What They Learned From Their Mistakes

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HarperCollins workers are on strike today (and collecting donations for support).

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