• Politics

    Income Inequality

    It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

    By Samuel Freedman  January 30, 2020
    WWII

    The Professor Who Smuggled Intellectuals Out of
    Nazi-Occupied France

    By Justus Rosenberg  January 30, 2020
    The Hub

    Actual cancel culture: White House threatens John Bolton about impending book.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 29, 2020
    Migrations

    Marcelo Hernandez Castillo:
    A Journey to the Home of My Ancestors

    By Marcelo Hernandez Castillo  January 28, 2020
    Income Inequality

    Poverty Hurts Children in Ways We’re Just Beginning to Understand

    By Jeff Madrick  January 28, 2020
    Civil Rights

    The Private Cost of Public Heroism: On Rosa Parks’ Life in Detroit

    By Susan Reyburn  January 28, 2020
    The Hub

    John Bolton’s memoir probably wasn’t leaked by a heroic assistant editor.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 27, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

    By Jonathan Reiber  January 27, 2020
    Income Inequality

    Americans Are Right To Think the Economy Is Rigged

    By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn  January 24, 2020
    Immigration

    Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration

    By Javier Zamora  January 24, 2020
    Media

    How to Know If a Movie Actually Sucks or If the Russians Are Trying to Trick You

    By Bob Garfield  January 24, 2020
    The Hub

    Writers are calling for a professor’s reinstatement after he was fired for posting a political joke.

    By Aaron Robertson  January 23, 2020
    Peace

    Striving for a Life of Normality in the Occupied West Bank

    By Ilana Hammerman  January 22, 2020
    Mental health

    The Legal Fight That Ended the Unjust Confinement of Mental Health Patients

    By Ayelet Waldman  January 21, 2020
    Post-Soviet Travel

    Post-Soviet Travel on the Turkmen-­Kazakh Border

    By Erika Fatland  January 21, 2020
    European History

    The Question Haunting the Hungarian People: “What Would You Have Done?”

    By Rory MacLean  January 17, 2020
    Feminism

    Amber Tamblyn on a Woman’s Right to Choose… From More Than Just One Woman Candidate

    By Amber Tamblyn  January 17, 2020
    Immigration

    When It Comes to Immigration, Political Centrism is Useless

    By Daniel Denvir  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Christopher Brown on Serving on the Inspiration Behind Rule of Capture

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Katherine Kayne on the Strong Women of Hawaii’s Painful History

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    Climate Justice

    Indigenous Forest Defenders Around the World Are Dying Anonymous Deaths

    By Rob Nixon  January 16, 2020
    Indian Politics

    Nationalism, Exclusionary Politics, and the Fate of Kashmir Under Modi’s India

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 16, 2020
    Economics

    On the Birth of the Economist Class and the Untaming of Corporations

    By Nicholas Shaxson  January 15, 2020
    Criticism

    Considering Garth Greenwell’s Revolutionary Erotics

    By Ben Miller  January 15, 2020
    Working Class Literature

    Finding the Literature I Needed Everywhere But University

    By Jessica Andrews  January 15, 2020
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