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America Is Less Polarized Than You Think

America Is Less Polarized Than You Think America Is Less Polarized Than You Think

Our collective focus on ‘political polarization’ is obscuring large areas of agreement.

Apr 26, 2018 / Frances Moore Lappé

PHOTOS: These Students Are Sick and Tired of Gun Violence

PHOTOS: These Students Are Sick and Tired of Gun Violence PHOTOS: These Students Are Sick and Tired of Gun Violence

“That could be me, my friends, my family.”

Apr 26, 2018 / Photo Essay / Tracie Williams

Assemblages

Assemblages Assemblages

—after Rodin’s Female nude climbing out of a pot

Apr 26, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Angie Estes

Pruitt Aide

Depressing White House Personnel News Depressing White House Personnel News

The cable-news folks never tire Of wondering who Trump will fire. Will Kelly’s tries at saying no Mean he will be the next to go? Will Pruitt’s graft at long last force A flight ba…

Apr 26, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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Letters From the May 21, 2018, Issue Letters From the May 21, 2018, Issue

Crossed wires… Painfully prescient
… Misreading, misleading?…

Apr 26, 2018 / Our Readers, Mark Dowie, Mark Hertsgaard, and James Carden

Comix Nation

Comix Nation Comix Nation

ignore this…

Apr 26, 2018 / Jen Sorensen

Puzzle No. 3465

Puzzle No. 3465 Puzzle No. 3465

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1  Provide food and support for insect (11)  7 Partner’s half of counterrevolution (5)  8 Where celebrities are…

Apr 26, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Hands Off!

Hands Off! Hands Off!

Our bodies, our temples.

Apr 26, 2018 / OppArt / India Tresselt

Alfred Döblin’s Hard-boiled Berlin 

Alfred Döblin’s Hard-boiled Berlin  Alfred Döblin’s Hard-boiled Berlin 

In Berlin Alexanderplatz, we are plunged into a cauldron of alienation, violence, and social breakdown that would deliver all of Germany into the hands of the Nazis. 

Apr 26, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Adam Kirsch

Wallace Thurman in Harlem

Wallace Thurman in Harlem Wallace Thurman in Harlem

As an editor, novelist, and playwright, Wallace Thurman sought to offer honest, unabashed portraits of black life in Harlem.

Apr 26, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Allyson Hobbs

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