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Class & Inequality, Politics

To Hell with Good Intentions

School reform is failing America's children.

Rob Reich

Books & Ideas

A Moment for Primo Levi

Nearly thirty years later, the circumstances of Primo Levi’s death continue to provoke debate.

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Science & Nature

Resisting Antibiotics

The social challenges of drug reform

Robert Bud

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Ghost in the Machine

Is digital life soulless or the site of a new transcendence?

Jenny Hendrix

Race

Historical Method and the Noble Lie

Mass incarceration is so politicized that we can't talk about its origins.

Michael Javen Fortner

Class & Inequality

The Unseen Threat of Capital Mobility

Off-shoring, tax havens, and other scourges of globalization

Marshall Steinbaum

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Reliable Rebel

Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the UK Labour Party, is helping to revive the radical left.

Martin O’Neill

Race

Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration?

Michael Javen Fortner’s Black Silent Majority makes the controversial case that African Americans backed the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

Donna Murch

Arts in Society

Come On Up, Sweetheart

James Baldwin's letters to his brother

Ed Pavlić

Arts in Society

The Gore Vidal Museum

The author's bid against being forgotten.

Daniel Luzer

Global Justice, Politics

Half a Loaf

In Israel and Palestine, two states are still better than one.

Assaf Sharon

Politics

The People's Technocracy

But do transparency and smarter government have the power to effect major changes?

Andrew Mayersohn

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