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May 9-16, 2016 Issue
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May 9-16, 2016 Issue
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Features
To answer that question, you must begin way before she died in a Texas jail.
For the movement to survive, it needs to focus on work that doesn’t lend itself to 140 characters.
But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives.
Editorials
Millions of Americans still need a champion, and the Democratic Party needs his supporters.
Obama recently expressed regret for US support of Argentina’s “dirty war.” It’s time Washington did the same regarding our active backing of right-wing butchery in El Salvador.
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Columns
What happens when we create our own truths online?
The threats to women’s safety are posed by men, not trans women. So why should trans women suffer for those sins?
Books and the Arts
Why is Arthur Miller one of the most lauded American playwrights—and one of the most vilified?
For philosophy to be effective, it has to understand the world in which it operates. David Hume brought history and politics to the realm of ideas.
An exhibit at the Met Breuer explores the differences between completing and finishing an artwork.
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Letters
Too much Trump!… Crime and collective punishment… Not-so-ancient history… Many bites of the Apple?…
