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All My Pronouns

by Anne Fadiman,

How I learned to live with the singular they

False Dawn

by Khadijah Queen,

A zuihitsu from the early months of the pandemic

In Plain Sight

by Annie Hylton,

The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe

The Art of Losing

by James Pogue,

Can Democrats win back postindustrial America?

We Shall Not Be Moved

by Audrea Lim,

Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers

Valley of Unrest

by Sonia Faleiro,

India’s unending occupation of Kashmir

Bogland

by William Atkins,

Climate change and the peat industry’s dying days

This Is Not a Test

by Barrett Swanson,

Why America fails to prevent disasters

Grand Designs

by Ian Volner,

Can the affordable-housing movement redeem its past failures?

The Lives of Others

by Richard Russo,

When does imagination become appropriation?

Ground Control

by Drew Pendergrass,

How forests adapt to climate change

Going Home Again

by Theodore Ross,

The Vietnamese overseas return

Common Enemy

by Ian Buruma,

The emerging resistance to Chinese Empire

Carrying On

by Lynn Freed,

My first years in America

The Pessimistic Style in American Politics

by Thomas Frank,

And its eternal war on reform

The Malaysian Job

by Andrew Cockburn,

How Wall Street enabled a global financial scandal

Dream State

by Yi-Ling Liu,

The radical imagination of the Hong Kong protest movement

The Money Question

by Christopher W. Shaw,

Is Trump right about the Fed?

Good Guys with Guns

by James Pogue,

Why the left should arm itself

Bright Stars

by Laila Lalami,

The unfulfilled promise of American citizenship

Arrested Development

by Mirzoyan,

Among the child police of Chhattisgarh

Dreams of Stone

by Ishion Hutchinson,

Searching for paradise in Ethiopia’s rock churches

In Harm’s Way

by Seth Harp,

A plague of unsolved femicides haunts Mexico

The Old Normal

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Why we can’t beat our addiction to war

Waiting for the End of the World

by Lauren Groff,

Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction

Trumpism After Trump

by Thomas Meaney,

Will the movement outlive the man?

The Cancer Chair

by Christian Wiman,

Is suffering meaningless?

“My Gang Is Jesus”

by Alex Cuadros,

Brazil’s evangelicals face the temptations of the drug trade

The Skinning Tree

by Jennifer Percy,

America’s redface problem onstage

Vicious Cycles

by Greg Jackson,

Theses on a philosophy of news

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