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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
Clickbait Has Plagued Journalism for 125 Years
The dragging down of the mighty has been not unpleasing sport in all ages.
E.L. Godkin and Rochelle Gurstein
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March 23, 2015
American Imperialism: This Is When It All Began
Accustomed to trampling democracy at home, jingoists cannot be expected to see its virtues abroad.
Horace White and Elinor Langer
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March 23, 2015
When the Constitution Becomes The Last Resort of Scoundrels
We know today the Founders were not Fathers to be proud of.
Simeon Strunsky and Richard Kreitner
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March 23, 2015
If We Repossessed Empty Homes, Homelessness Would Be Over
It will need a robust Mayor and city government to take the law into their own hands; but the people would support them.
William MacDonald and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio
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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