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21st century

The Minds of Others

by David Bromwich, Garth Greenwell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kelly Clancy, Laila Lalami, Mychal Denzel Smith, T. M. Luhrmann,

The art of persuasion in the age of Trump

Before the Deluge

by Petra Bartosiewicz,

How Washington sealed Puerto Rico’s fate

Within Reach

by Nicole Pasulka,

The transgender community fights for health care

Lines and Lineage

by Tomas van Houtryve,

We often forget that the boundary between the United States and Mexico was not always where it is today. It used to be seven hundred miles farther north, following what…

Reading in the Dark

by Christine Smallwood,

Does fiction matter in a post-fact age?

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Those who believe in a just world are more likely to behave dishonestly. People think themselves to be morally superior even beyond their self-inflation of other positive qualities. Four fifths…

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by Gesche Jaeger,

On the Corner of Myth and Main

by Walter Kirn,

There was a time when I didn’t know that I lived in Middle America. When I was very young, growing up in eastern Minnesota, I thought I was just an…

Before I Sleep

by Henry Marsh,

By Henry Marsh, from Admissions, a memoir about his life as a neurosurgeon. The book was published in October by St. Martin’s Press. Marsh is the author of Do No Harm.

Thought Police

From a ruling handed down in September by a Louisiana district court in Officer John Doe v. DeRay Mckesson et al. The anonymous Baton Rouge police officer filed suit last…

Chronicle of Dire Education

From news reports of homework given to students in US public schools since 2011.