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Higher Education
Paying for College Was Already Stressful. Then Came Trump and DOGE.
April 16, 2025Center for New York City Affairs, Kim Nauer
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Health care
Standing Up for the Health of Black Americans
April 4, 2025Eric T. Jones
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Elon Musk’s Cruel Moral Sentiments
April 3, 2025David Lay Williams
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Guantanamo, Again
April 2, 2025Joseph Margulies
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Migration
Asylum and the Hierarchy of Suffering
February 27, 2025Charlotte Soehner, Olivia Woldemikael
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“If You Wish to Know Who a Man Truly Is, Give Him Power”
February 25, 2025Melvin L. Rogers
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Democracy
What Is Illiberal Democracy?
February 20, 2025Senem Aydin-Düzgit, Mark Frazier, Jeffrey C. Isaac, Pratap Bhanu Mehta
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The Dictatorship of the Tech Bros—or, What Is to Be Done?
February 7, 2025Forrest Deacon, James Miller
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Trump Returns
February 6, 2025David Plotke
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Music
Election Anxiety Mixtape
November 5, 2024Alex Rossen
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Trump’s Charm Offensive
November 1, 2024Adam Koehler Brown
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The “Prose of Counterinsurgency” 
November 1, 2024James Porter

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