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What Tropics of Meta Knows About Politics

Our people are troubled, but they wrote a lot of good shit.

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How a Bad Bill Becomes a Bad Law: A Convoluted Process of Good Intentions and...

Kate is the projected valedictorian, and will graduate as #1 in her class, with a 4.0 GPA. Before […]

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From Border Ruffian to Florida Man: The Evolution of Voter Fraud in American...

Voter fraud is on everybody’s Twitter feed these days. While most everyone concedes that in person voting fraud […]

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Ben Carson’s Unfortunate Cornerstone

The good doctor's latest pieties echo an ugly part of the American past, argues Steven Lubet.

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All Together on a Life Raft in the Wine-Dark Sea

Pandemic life has shown us that loneliness and togetherness are closer to each other than we once thought.

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Daniel Schorr and Nixon’s Tricky Road to Redemption

Nixon long portrayed himself as a victim of the press. However, from the 1952 Checkers speech to his post-presidency PR offensives, Nixon proved himself an able manipulator of the media.

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Book Titles: From the Curious to Moxie

Courage, determination, aggressive energy, initiative. That was the radical style of Chicanas and Chicanos.

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Carmen Ramirez Presente: A Chicana in Positions of Power

At the close of Teatro Campesino’s 1972 film Los Vendidos/The Sellouts, originally a play written by Luis Valdez, a menagerie […]

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Jina in Iran, Erased Kurdish Histories, and the Worlds We Need

The shouts. The demands. The pleas. The cries. They stretched from Tehran to Kurdistan across borders, lands, and waters.

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We are bleeding and guns are our bandage

With the worst blizzard to strike Chicago in twenty years, I sat in the living room of a shared apartment at the University of Chicago watching the news. The news coverage sent chills deep down to my...

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A Festus for the Rest of Us

Cults and multilevel marketing schemes are more American than apple pie, it turns out.

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