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These Precious Days

Tell me how the story ends

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The Armies of the Right

Inside Ukraine’s extremist militias

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Skin in the Game

Wall Street’s answer to the student-debt crisis

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False Labor

Giving up on motherhood

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The Silenced Majority

Can America still afford democracy?

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“If Only I Could Begin Again!”

The mystery of a writer’s métier

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Thing of Ether

Chasing the aurora borealis

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Is America Ungovernable?

The difference between protest and reform

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Making Meaning

Against “relevance” in art

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The Grove

Then she suggested I make a list of all the things I’m grateful for. No entry is too small or mundane: access to clean water, fast internet, the weeping habit…

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The Enemies Briefcase

Secret powers and the presidency

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State of Exception

Lebanon’s cruel solution to the refugee crisis

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America’s Game

The reprise and demise of the XFL

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On Defense

Twenty-five years of fighting mass incarceration in court

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Reason Not the Need

Self-storage and the dream of infinite space

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Perfect Storm

When is it time to abandon a place to climate change?

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The Sanctuary

Life in a cop-free zone

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The Big Tech Extortion Racket

How Google, Amazon, and Facebook control our lives

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A Litany for Survival

Giving birth as a black woman in America

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Nonconforming

Against the erosion of academic freedom by identity politics

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Elder Abuse

Nursing homes, the coronavirus, and the bottom line

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Bright Power, Dark Peace

Robinson Jeffers and the hope of human extinction

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On Moral Injury

Can a new diagnosis help heal our souls?

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All My Pronouns

How I learned to live with the singular they

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False Dawn

A zuihitsu from the early months of the pandemic

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In Plain Sight

The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe

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The Art of Losing

Can Democrats win back postindustrial America?

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We Shall Not Be Moved

Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers

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