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Class & Inequality

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Literature & Culture

Ants Among Elephants

Sujatha Gidla, born an untouchable in India, tells the story of her family.

Literature & Culture

Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again

Junot Díaz interviews Margaret Atwood about The Handmaid's Tale, political dystopias, and Drake.

Margaret Atwood, Junot Díaz

Poetry

you drive down the street
with one gallon left
go to the only bar in town
find one stool, have one beer
meet the one person

The One

Diana Keren Lee

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Fiction

Submit: The Aura Estrada Short Story Contest

Judged by Viet Thanh Nguyen, the contest is open until October 1. The winner receives publication and a $1,500 prize.

War & Security

A Witch-Hunt in Turkey

One year after Turkey's failed coup, retribution has become a farcical national obsession.

Science & Nature

The Death and Life of America's Waters

From the Great Lakes to the Flint River, we have devastated our waters through negligence, lethargy, and good intentions.

Meghan O’Gieblyn

Politics

The Conservative Con That Gave Us Trumpcare

The American Health Care Act has a long history that returns us to the New Deal and its critics.

Lawrence B. Glickman

Science & Nature

Silicon Valley to Liberal Arts Majors: We Want You

Tech billionaires love to declare the death of liberal arts, but could they instead be the future of Silicon Valley?

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

He Said, He Said: The Feminization of James Comey

Conservatives routinely deny that gender is fluid. Yet they have feminized Comey in order to bring him down.

Class & Inequality, Education & Opportunity

The Dream Hoarders: How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality

Focusing on the top 1 percent is a mistake. The real class divide is between the upper middle class and the rest of America.

Richard V. Reeves

Class & Inequality

All in the Family Debt

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

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Literature & Culture

Radicalism Begins in the Body

Junot Díaz, Samuel R. Delany

In Memoriam: Neil Gordon

Ants Among Elephants

Inside Every Utopia Is a Dystopia

Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again

Margaret Atwood, Junot Díaz

The Dystopia Next Door

Marta Figlerowicz

Realization and Recognition

The Obsessions of Hitchcock, Welles, and Kubrick

Jonathan Kirshner

Ash Wednesday

Samuel R. Delany

Politics

He Said, He Said: The Feminization of James Comey

How George Osborne and Ed Miliband Saved Labour

Martin O’Neill

For Labour, Victory Next Time

Martin O’Neill

Mourning in America

Peter E. Gordon

At G20, All Eyes on Germany

Populism's Perfect Storm

Rogers Brubaker

How Trump Builds: On the Hollow Promise of #InfrastructureWeek

America's Case of Mistaken Identity

Rogers M. Smith

The Conservative Con That Gave Us Trumpcare

Lawrence B. Glickman

Our Favorite Reads

READING LIST

A running list of reader favorites.

Noam Chomsky, The Responsibility of Intellectuals

Junot Díaz, Apocalypse

Evgeny Morozov, Texting Toward Utopia

Elizabeth Warren, What's Hurting the Middle Class?

Martha Nussbaum, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism

Geoffrey Movius interviews Susan Sontag

Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and the Anxiety of Influence

25 Essays Against Whitelash

READING LIST

Racism, populism, and xenophobia have had the last word at the ballot box.

Robin D. G. Kelley, Trump Says Go Back, We Say Fight Back
Walter Johnson, To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice
Robin D. G. Kelley, Black Study, Black Struggle
Donna Murch, Paying for Punishment
Christopher Petrella, On Stone Mountain: White Supremacy and the Birth of the Modern Democratic Party
Robin D. G. Kelley, What Does Black Lives Matter Want?
Andrea Mammone, "Go Home!" Being Foreign in Post-Brexit Britain

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