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April 20, 2015
In 1970, Environmentalism Was Poised to ‘Bring Us All Together.’ What Happened?
Today, the environment is a controversial issue divided along partisan lines—but it wasn't always that way.
Zoë Carpenter
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April 7, 2015
What Can Stop the Ongoing Assault on Black Families?
Through a shared desire to balance a critique of racism with a call for personal responsibility, liberals and conservatives have been united in looking with exasperation at the black family, which dares to persist even where male breadwinners and wedding vows are in short supply.
Dani McClain
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April 7, 2015
The Absurdly Rational Logic of Wages for Wives
A radical re-evaluation of caregiving work—proposed in The Nation in 1926—is still potent today.
Michelle Chen
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March 23, 2015
Can Men and Women Be Friends?
Feminism has opened up far more space than could have been imagined in the 1920s.
Floyd Dell and Michelle Goldberg
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March 23, 2015
When the World Became a Huge Penitentiary
An eloquent portrait of underground life among the undocumented and the damned of the earth.
Emma Goldman and Vivian Gornick
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March 23, 2015
Langston Hughes and Touré on Loving Blackness in a Nation Ruled by White Supremacy
The Black artist still must confront the choice between being a messenger about the community and being a pure maker of artistic product.
Langston Hughes and Touré
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March 23, 2015
The Reporter Who Warned Us Not to Invade Vietnam 10 Years Before the Gulf of Tonkin
A farsighted policy might do more to stem the Communist tide than sending a few more plane-loads of napalm.
Bernard Fall and Frances FitzGerald
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March 23, 2015
When Respectability Was No Longer Respectable, and Virtue Required Acting Out, Not Leaning In
Spelman College girls are still “nice,” but not enough to keep them from walking up and down, carrying picket signs, in front of supermarkets in the heart of Atlanta.
Howard Zinn and Paula J. Giddings
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March 23, 2015
The Gospel According to Wendell Berry
To destroy a forest is an act of greater seriousness than we have yet grasped. But to destroy the earth itself is to destroy the possibility of recovery.
Wendell Berry and Wen Stephenson
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March 23, 2015
A Report From Occupied Territory
The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer.
James Baldwin and Carrie Mae Weems