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Yesterday 1:41 pm
Shimon Peres and the Zionist Nightmare
The former Israeli president was the very tragic hero of a not-funny comedy.
Amos Kenan
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Yesterday 7:00 am
What Would Alexis de Tocqueville Have Made of the 2016 US Presidential Election?
Feverish thoughts from a moment of “extreme peril.”
Arthur Goldhammer
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September 27, 2016
Fortress America
How 20th-century liberals helped create our age of mass incarceration.
James Forman Jr.
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September 22, 2016
The Black Panthers’ Overlooked Revolution
Fifty years later, four women who helped build the party look back on the less-attention-grabbing part of its history.
Yohuru Williams and Bryan Shih
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September 15, 2016
Diamond-Dust Baroque
The Get Down, Baz Luhrman’s fairy-tale remix of the birth of hip hop, offers a glimpse of the beginning of the end of US power.
Joshua Clover
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September 15, 2016
Black as We Wanna Be
Trying to remedy racism on its own intellectual terrain is like trying to extinguish a fire by striking another match. The fiction must be unbelieved, the fire stamped out.
Matthew McKnight
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September 13, 2016
Who Freed the Slaves?
For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.
Stephanie McCurry
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September 6, 2016
Behind the Sun
In four books about Syria and Egypt, the narrative arc of revolution bends toward disappointment.
Ursula Lindsey
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August 31, 2016
How a Nun, a Vet, and a Housepainter Stood Up to the Threat of Nuclear Weapons
Dan Zak’s Almighty reminds readers that the United States’ poisonous and very expensive history of nuclear-weapons production is far from over.
Frida Berrigan
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August 26, 2016
Warren Hinckle’s Truth-to-Power Journalism and Politics Broke the Conventional Wisdom
As the editor of Ramparts, he helped shape the radicalism of the 1960s, and kept on challenging injustice and “professional megabuck politics.”
John Nichols