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September 8, 2020
Can the American University Be Saved?
Covid-19 has revealed the glaring inequalities of higher ed in the United States and may push the system to the point of crisis.
Daniel Bessner
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September 3, 2020
The Looter Is the Most Misunderstood Figure in American Politics
A conversation with Vicky Osterweil about misconceptions around the politics of looting and its radical tradition.
Stephen Kearse
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July 8, 2020
Why Has Society Failed to Integrate Grief Into Public Life?
We talked to Rachel Kauder Nalebuff about the politics of care, mourning, and her new book, Stages: On Dying, Working, and Feeling.
Sam Huber
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May 5, 2020
Mary Gaitskill’s Art of Loneliness
Through her portraits of solitude, Gaitskill forces us to recognize those moments of subtle connection.
Maggie Doherty
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May 5, 2020
How Should Unions Organize?
In A Collective Bargain, Jane McAlevey makes the case for strike-ready unions and whole worker organizing. But in an age of globalized economies and climate change, is this enough?
E. Tammy Kim
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March 30, 2020
The Strange and Often Radical Pursuit of Immortality in Russia
A new book looks at the history of a century-long movement to create life after death.
Sophie Pinkham
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March 3, 2020
The Protests That Made and Unmade Japan’s Postwar Left
The demonstrations against the Anpo treaty remain the largest protest movement in Japanese history and yet their defeat cleared the path for decades of conservative rule.
Colin Jones
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January 29, 2020
Emma Copley Eisenberg’s Appalachian True-Crime Chronicle Upends the Genre
In a conversation with fellow true-crime writer Rachel Monroe, Eisenberg discusses the pitfalls and potential of the evolving genre.
Rachel Monroe
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January 13, 2020
The Journalism of Gabriel García Márquez
His fiction and nonfiction can be seen as facets of a single, lifelong narrative enterprise.
Tony Wood
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November 20, 2019
The Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Climate Change: Worker Power
Capitalists created the climate crisis. But a low-carbon labor movement can help solve it.
Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riofrancos