• Politics

    Keen On

    How the Far Right Is Weaponizing Youth Culture

    By Keen On  October 1, 2020
    The Hub

    Our terrible year of open letters continues: JK Rowling edition.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 30, 2020
    American Presidents

    What Happens When a President
    Really Listens?

    By Jonathan Alter  September 30, 2020
    History of Reading

    At Their Own Pace: Why Reading Is Not an Inherent Moral Good

    By Katherine Gaudet  September 30, 2020
    Incarceration

    Literature for Justice: Seven Books that Rethink Mass Incarceration

    By Literary Hub  September 30, 2020
    On Translation

    How an Italian Translator Found an Unlikely Home in the Utah Desert

    By Sara Reggiani  September 30, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Jordan Morgan on How the Pandemic Is Fueling Unrest

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 30, 2020
    Keen On

    What Happens to the Common Good in a Culture of Winners and Losers?

    By Keen On  September 30, 2020
    Change Lab

    Bob Davidson on Rising Above Segregation through Persistence and Resistance

    By Change Lab  September 30, 2020
    New Books Network

    Policing the Womb: How the State Criminalizes Reproduction

    By New Books Network  September 30, 2020
    Beauty

    Why Are We Fascinated by Strange Faces?

    By Namwali Serpell  September 29, 2020
    Voting

    Voting is Still One of Our Most Powerful Tools For Change

    By John Freeman  September 29, 2020
    Protest

    Funeral in Effigy for the Statue of a Klansman Confederate General

    By Connor Towne O'Neill  September 29, 2020
    Keen On

    What Does Nationalism Mean for the Environment?

    By Keen On  September 29, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Ananya Roy on the Shared Struggles of Scholars and Activists

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 29, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Racist History and Political Ends of Taking Children

    By New Books Network  September 29, 2020
    Class

    Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?

    By David R. Roediger  September 28, 2020
    Censorship

    Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran

    By Amir Ahmadi Arian  September 28, 2020
    Keen On

    The Schoolhouse is Burning: What’s Happening to Public Education?

    By Keen On  September 28, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2020
    Myth

    Why Did Renaissance Europeans See Merpeople Everywhere?

    By Vaughn Scribner  September 28, 2020
    Underreported

    Populism, Nationalism, Socialism: Charting the Political Moods of Our Time

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  September 28, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Language Keepers: Compiling the First Ever Wukchumni Dictionary

    By Emergence Magazine  September 28, 2020
    New Books Network

    How to Rebuild America’s Hollowed-Out Middle Class

    By New Books Network  September 28, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Scenes From a Vigil: New York City Mourns the Loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    By Rachel Cobb  September 25, 2020
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