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Permanent Pandemic

by Justin E. H. Smith,

Will COVID controls keep controlling us?

Operation Overshare

by James Harkin,

How the White House misled Ukraine

White Rapture

by Margo Jefferson,

From Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir, which will be published this month by Pantheon. I started teaching women writers in the early Nineties. When I thought about my own…

Sample Truths

by Christopher Beha,

One of the few clear goods to have emerged from the social and political turmoil of the past decade is a collapse of faith in public opinion polls. Last fall’s…

Under the Surface

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

One morning in September, a dapper Frenchman seated next to me in the garden of the Château de Tocqueville gestured solemnly at the front page of Le Monde, the house…

Buy the Numbers

by Colette Brooks,

From Trapped in the Present Tense, which will be published next month by Counterpoint Press. It’s possible to construct a statistical mosaic of American life out of the 332 million…

The Enumerator

by Jeremy Miller,

Dispatches from a broken census count

Continental Divide

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Decades ago, my father implored me to get acquainted with James Baldwin. As is often the case with such parental injunctions, I ignored him for a long time, but once…