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May 21, 2018, Issue
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Feature
These women didn’t stand on ceremony; they accepted the risks of activism and fought for worlds where others might have freedoms that they themselves would never enjoy.
Through a new “People Power” initiative, the country’s oldest civil-liberties organization wants to go beyond the courts—and into the streets.
We must take the Internet back from monopolies.
Editorial
If Trump dumps it, it could set off a Middle East nuclear-arms race and lead to another disastrous war.
The research is now clear: Right-to-carry laws increase the rate of violent crime.
He’s filling his administration, agencies, and the courts with activists who peddle junk science and lies about both contraception and abortion.
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Column
If Mohammed bin Salman truly wants to promote freedom of expression, he must release Raif Badawi.
The UK government’s treatment of elderly black Britons from the Caribbean is a scandal, but their elevation to national treasure offers hope.
Books & the Arts
—after Rodin’s Female nude climbing out of a pot
As an editor, novelist, and playwright, Wallace Thurman sought to offer honest, unabashed portraits of black life in Harlem.
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.
David Cannadine’s Victorious Century focuses on high politics to the exclusion of nearly everything else.
Mount Eerie’s Now Only and David Byrne’s American Utopia both try to find meaning in a world of loss and death.
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Letters
Crossed wires… Painfully prescient
… Misreading, misleading?…