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The Biggest US City That Shouldn’t Exist
An entertaining history of one of the United States’s most improbable cities.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
The Great Red North
Gabriel Winant considers Barry Eidlin’s answer to the perennial question: why has leftism fared better in Canada?
The Rock That Breaks and Breaks
A new book about the fracking boom hits close to home.
Popular Feminism: Feminist Flashpoints
This is the fifth installment in a bi-monthly column that will explore some of the different cultural facets of popular feminism.
Mining the Hurricane
Anjali Vaidya reviews Naomi Klein's latest, "The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists."
The Border-Security-Industrial Complex: A Conversation with Todd Miller
Gabriel Schivone talks with Todd Miller about the ties between US arms companies and the governments of Jordan and Israel.
Left in Polytheism
Can the Hindu left be revived?
Christianity and Resistance: An Interview with Alan Jacobs
A discussion of what it means to be a Christian in the age of Trump.
Straw Gods: A Cautious Response to Jordan B. Peterson
Why this controversial psychologist should not be ignored.
Recontextualizing the Archive: On Anouck Durand’s “Eternal Friendship”
Will Moore on the subtly subversive "Eternal Friendship."
2+2=5: On the White Sea-Baltic Canal and Totalitarian Pipe Dreams
Maya Vinokour considers dictatorial “gigantomania,” from Stalin’s White Sea-Baltic Canal to Trump’s THE WALL.
Party of One: Democracy, Political Parties, and Simone Weil
A side-by-side reading of a French philosopher and a pair of American political scientists.
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