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Reviews
A Dystopian Novel for Our Times
May 15, 2025Susan Yelavich
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Russia
Leo Tolstoy Salutes the Student Movement in Russia
May 15, 2025Inessa Medzhibovskaya, Leo Tolstoy
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Israel/Palestine
How Israel Freezes Palestinian Salaries
May 14, 2025Lamees Farraj
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United States
Whitman, Spiritual Decay, and the Last Light of American Faith
May 14, 2025Yahia Lababidi
Girl Writing in Bookstore
Memory
Mining Memories for Fiction
May 13, 2025Gina Chung, Mikayla Emerson
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Literature
Rabbit Heart
May 13, 2025Gina Chung
Unsettled
Mass Deportation
May 13, 2025T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura, Cristina M Rodríguez
Politics
The Administrative State, Its Democratic Deficits, and How to Fix Them in Comparative Historical Perspective
May 8, 2025Mark Frazier, James Miller, Kim Lane Scheppele, Julia Sonnevend
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Worldwide/Transregional
“The Amazon Is Not a Warehouse”
May 8, 2025Dionéia Ferreira, Eduardo Staszowski, Renata Zampronio
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Reviews
Cooking Noodles on Rikers Island
May 6, 2025Carina Filemyr
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Race
The Working-Class Venezuelans at the Center of Trump’s “Crisis”
May 2, 2025Erick Moreno Superlano
Unsettled
Birthright Citizenship
April 29, 2025T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura, Cristina M Rodríguez

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