Week of November 12

• Featured Essay
  Who Is Disfigured by a Cleft Lip?

  Ella Hillström

  MA in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research
• Annals of Democracy
  Why Polls Can’t Satisfy Us

  Claire Potter

  Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
  Europe Reacts to the 2020 US Presidential Election

  Valerio Alfonso Bruno and Parsi Vittorio Emanuele
  A Halloween Uprising and Poland’s General Strike Over Abortion

  Elzbieta Matynia

  Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research, Director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies
  Will Women Defeat Poland’s Illiberal Regime?

  Sławomir Sierakowski

  Sławomir Sierakowski, founder of the Krytyka Polityczna movement, is Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw
• Economics
  Why Google Is Facing Serious Accusations of Monopoly Practices

  Prabir Purkayastha

  Founding editor of Newsclick.in
• Our Columnists
  Black Lives Matter Gave Joe Biden His Victory

  John Stoehr 

  Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board
  After the Election, New Leadership and Old Cronyism

  Heather Cox Richardson

  Professor of History, Boston College