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VIDEO: Ursula K. Le Guin on Listening to the Unheard Voices

VIDEO: Ursula K. Le Guin on Listening to the Unheard Voices VIDEO: Ursula K. Le Guin on Listening to the Unheard Voices

The late author on climate change, the definition of progress, and how “the future in science fiction is just a metaphor for now.”

Jan 26, 2018 / The Nation

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Letters From the February 12-19, 2018, Issue Letters From the February 12-19, 2018, Issue

Red Famine revisited… Faith in community…

Jan 25, 2018 / Our Readers

What Causes Some Cities to Become Sites of Revolution?

What Causes Some Cities to Become Sites of Revolution? What Causes Some Cities to Become Sites of Revolution?

To understand the American and French revolutions, one must look not simply at their origins in the wider world but also at how particular environments could become crucibles of in...

Jan 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell

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One Year On, Trump Coverage Achieves Complete Closed Loop One Year On, Trump Coverage Achieves Complete Closed Loop

Some hot, fresh takes from the same old faces. 

Jan 24, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Ursula K. Le Guin

‘I Came With a Calling’: Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin ‘I Came With a Calling’: Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin

The writer died this week, at 88. 

Jan 24, 2018 / Zoë Carpenter

HBO High Maintenance The Guy

Weed Shall Overcome Weed Shall Overcome

No other TV series captures daily life in New York City quite like HBO’s High Maintenance.

Jan 20, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Judy Berman

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Who Could Have Guessed? Who Could Have Guessed?

It sure would be unfortunate if the president was mentally unfit. 

Jan 17, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Marc Raskin

Marcus Raskin, an Activist Heart and Soul Marcus Raskin, an Activist Heart and Soul

He was a man at ease in his own skin, though not in the world, which he constantly sought to change for the better.

Jan 15, 2018 / The Nation

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What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers

Young women writers who want to make their voices heard will follow her example in the years to come.

Jan 12, 2018 / StudentNation / Jordana Rosenfeld

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Poverty Is Eliminated! Poverty Is Eliminated!

You can’t really be poor unless you literally have nothing.

Jan 11, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

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