• Politics

    Sexual Politics

    How Anthony Comstock, Enemy to Women of the Gilded Age, Attempted to Ban Contraception

    By Amy Sohn  July 20, 2021
    Sex

    Sexual Politics and Female Power: Stories from the Playboy Bunny Resort

    By Christina Clancy  July 20, 2021
    Keen On

    Adrian Wooldridge on the American Revolt Against Meritocracy

    By Keen On  July 20, 2021
    The Hub

    Nicholas Kristof is considering a run for Oregon governor.

    By Walker Caplan  July 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Ishmael Reed was NOT happy about Jill Biden’s choice of inaugural poet.

    By Walker Caplan  July 19, 2021
    Corruption

    The Corrupt Arrogance of William Barr

    By Elie Honig  July 19, 2021
    Abortion Rights

    Inside the Decades-Long Conservative Strategy to Weaken Roe v. Wade

    By Kathryn Kolbert and Julie F. Kay  July 16, 2021
    #MeToo

    Looking to the Past to Change the Future: On Japan’s #MeToo Movement

    By Shiori Ito, translated by Allison Markin Powell  July 16, 2021
    #MeToo

    How Digital Activism and Organizing Inspired Brazil’s #MeToo Movement

    By Rachel B. Vogelstein and Meighan Stone  July 16, 2021
    Keen On

    Leidy Klotz on Subtracting Racism from Academia, Not Just Adding Diversity

    By Keen On  July 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Donald Trump plagiarized a glowing blurb from HarperCollins.

    By Walker Caplan  July 15, 2021
    Surveillance

    How Fear of Government Surveillance Influences Our Behavior

    By Heidi Boghosian  July 15, 2021
    The Hub

    Booksellers at Hong Kong’s book fair are being forced to self-censor their selections.

    By Walker Caplan  July 14, 2021
    Migrations

    How Sicilians Are Mobilizing in Support of Migrants’ Rights

    By Jamie Mackay  July 14, 2021
    Queer History

    On Makeup As a Tool for Queer Resistance

    By Rae Nudson  July 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Alaska’s libraries are facing devastating funding cuts.

    By Walker Caplan  July 13, 2021
    Freedom of Speech

    Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

    By Richard Flanagan  July 12, 2021
    Incarceration

    Looking for Love in a Prison Cell

    By Elizabeth Greenwood  July 12, 2021
    Keen On

    David Potter on What Lenin and Luther Can Teach Us About Our Age of Disruption

    By Keen On  July 9, 2021
    Friendship

    When Franklin Pierce Saved Nathaniel Hawthorne from Financial Ruin

    By Gary Ginsberg  July 8, 2021
    Activism

    Toward Antifascist Futures: On Small-Scale Organizing as a Global Movement

    By Ewa Majewska  July 8, 2021
    AIDS

    How the Bush Administration Did More For AIDS in Africa Than At Home

    By Emily Bass  July 8, 2021
    Keen On

    How College Rankings Created the Student Debt Crisis

    By Keen On  July 8, 2021
    Activism

    We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should

    By Julia Baird  July 7, 2021
    Keen On

    Adam Serwer on the Cruelty of Politics and the Politics of Cruelty

    By Keen On  July 7, 2021
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