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Prisoners of a Vision: Dissidents in Sisi’s Egypt
The ongoing struggle against a US-backed dictatorship.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
Pyongyang Torch Song
An American writes of his time in North Korea.
Letter to the Editor: John Zerzan and Ben Etherington
John Zerzan responds to Ben Etherington's essay "The New Primitives," and Etherington offers a reply.
Fashion It Thus: Stephen Greenblatt’s “Tyrant”
What Shakespeare’s tyrants tell us about our own political crisis.
Max Eastman: From Left to Right
Georgiy Chernyavskiy reviews “Max Eastman: A Life,” a biography by Christoph Irmscher.
Hard Stands
Jennifer Kabat reviews James Pogue's "Chosen Country," which details the Malheur Reservation standoff and events over the two years preceding it.
The Vigilante Style in California Politics: At a Symposium in the Central Valley, Devin Nunes and Militia Hero Ammon Bundy Tap into a Deep Well of Agrarian Rage
Devin Nunes goes to a farm convention and reaps a crop of right-wing fury.
The Echoes of That Era: An Interview with Jake Tapper
Tom Rosenstiel interviews Jake Tapper about his new novel, “The Hellfire Club.”
Balancing Act: Richard Sennett’s “Building and Dwelling”
Richard Sennett’s notion of an “open city” articulates how to achieve, or at least think about, the ethical city in the 21st century.
The Autumn of Our Patriarch
Lois Zamora looks at contemporary American politics through the lens of "The Autumn of the Patriarch," a “dictator novel” by Gabriel García Márquez.
Sinking Cities
A lyrical new book on disappearing shorelines connects science to the personal.
Death by Charity
An author takes a road trip across Haiti to understand the blowback from good intentions.
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