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The Purge: Election Year

The Liberal Catechism The Liberal Catechism

The allegory in the latest installment of The Purge is pretty clear: Election 2016.

Jul 8, 2016 / Joshua Clover

Kwame Nkrumah statue

The Insufficiency of Pan-Africanism as We Know It The Insufficiency of Pan-Africanism as We Know It

The fact that many people identify, however loosely, with being African doesn’t replace the need for the services that only a government can provide.

Jul 7, 2016 / Anakwa Dwamena

Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices

Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices

At a time when populism is in vogue, the Nobel Laureate has gone in the opposite direction. We need to read her and listen to the people she hears.

Jul 6, 2016 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

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Who Should Be Donald Trump’s Running Mate? Who Should Be Donald Trump’s Running Mate?

Here are three suggestions.

Jul 5, 2016 / Khalid Rahmaan

Lina Meruane

Blindness and Vision Blindness and Vision

In Lina Meruane’s Seeing Red, both the reader and the protagonist learn to see blindness.

Jun 30, 2016 / Aaron Bady

Puzzle No. 3402

Puzzle No. 3402 Puzzle No. 3402

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Legume enthusiast catches Gardner with bare shoulders (4,4)  5 Love to sail to Washington with Native American (6)…

Jun 30, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

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Letters From the July 18-25, 2016, Issue Letters From the July 18-25, 2016, Issue

London calling… Sign of the times?… Connecting the dots… Left to her own devices?… Live long and… prosper?… GOP Humpty Dumpty…

Jun 30, 2016 / Our Readers

Instagram and the Fantasy of Mastery

Instagram and the Fantasy of Mastery Instagram and the Fantasy of Mastery

A “look” is a kind of instant style: quickly executed and dispatched, immediately understood and overcharged with incident. It is time for a new view.

Jun 29, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ricky D’Ambrose

Letter From the Palestine Festival of Literature

Letter From the Palestine Festival of Literature Letter From the Palestine Festival of Literature

I had gone to Palestine expecting to see occupation and degradation, but I had not expected to witness my own privilege so starkly.

Jun 28, 2016 / Column / Laila Lalami

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12 Months of Trump 12 Months of Trump

Up next: more totally normal behavior

Jun 28, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow

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