• Politics

    Shakespeare

    Shakespeare and the Culture Wars: On the Movement for Color-Blind Casting

    By James Shapiro  March 12, 2020
    Middle East

    The Political and Narrative War for the Iranian Dead

    By Poupeh Missaghi  March 12, 2020
    Gun violence

    The Everyday Madness of Teaching Under Lockdown in America

    By Erica Berry  March 11, 2020
    Food

    The Massive Chicago Operation to Save 800,000 People From Hunger

    By Martín Caparrós  March 9, 2020
    Medicine

    Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

    By David Nott  March 6, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

    By Robin D.G. Kelley  March 6, 2020
    Palestine

    How Can Palestinian Writers Resist Consumption by Colonial Narratives?

    By George Abraham  March 6, 2020
    Activism

    Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

    By Adam Hochschild  March 5, 2020
    Activism

    How to Pull Off a 250-Mile Protest March? Grit (And a Little Bit of Harry Belafonte)

    By Linda Sarsour  March 4, 2020
    The Hub

    Dear Oxford English Dictionary: “bitch” is not a synonym for “woman.”

    By Corinne Segal  March 3, 2020
    Life Under Late Capitalism

    Hilary Leichter on the Derangements of Late Capitalism

    By Kristin Iversen  March 3, 2020
    2020 Election

    How Celebrities Can Leverage Their Influence for Good in 2020

    By David Plouffe  March 3, 2020
    The Hub

    A new site for headline-inspired fiction launches today with stories by Carmen Maria Machado, Colum McCann, and more.

    By Corinne Segal  March 2, 2020
    The Internet

    From Anon to Alt-Right:
    The Dangerous Tricksters of 4chan

    By Joanne McNeil  March 2, 2020
    War

    Tim Bakken on the Self-Deluded Hubris at the Heart of the American Military

    By Tim Bakken  March 2, 2020
    The Hub

    Remember the time NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch put Klan hoods on Thomas the Train and friends?

    By Jonny Diamond  February 28, 2020
    The Hub

    New Yorker critic Dan Chiasson is trying to get Thomas Pynchon to endorse Bernie.

    By Emily Temple  February 27, 2020
    On Race

    The Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black Education

    By Mikki Kendall  February 27, 2020
    Democracy

    A Call to Action for the Large, Cacophonous Mess That is the Democratic Party

    By Dan Pfeiffer  February 27, 2020
    American Classics

    Marcus Mumford on John Steinbeck’s Lessons in Justice and Power

    By Literary Hub  February 27, 2020
    The Hub

    Volunteer-run, makeshift libraries are popping up at Indian protest sites.

    By Emily Temple  February 26, 2020
    5 Questions

    Mahogany L. Browne on Audre Lorde and Tools for Liberation

    By Literary Hub  February 26, 2020
    How a Person Should Be

    Why We Should All Be Less Like Satan, More Like My Mom

    By Rye Curtis  February 26, 2020
    The Hub

    German far-right party distributes racist coloring books.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 20, 2020
    Terrorism

    On the Madness of Crowds in the
    Global Age of Terror

    By William Davies  February 20, 2020
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