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Chronicle of Dire Education

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

Destroyer of Worlds

by Elaine Scarry, Eric Schlosser, Lydia Millet, Mohammed Hanif, Rachel Bronson, Theodore Postol,

Taking stock of our nuclear present

Terms of Surrender

by Henry Lewis Stimson,

It was in the fall of 1941 that the question of atomic energy was first brought directly to my attention. At that time President Roosevelt appointed a committee to advise…

Crossing Guards

by Matt Mossman,

When private ownership of a bridge gets old

Framing The Shadows

by Vince Passaro,

The luminary vision of W. Eugene Smith

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…

Preaching to The Choir

by Rebecca Solnit,

Once, on a river-rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, I traveled with a charming, good-humored man who happened to run an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He liked…

The Working Classroom

by Malcolm Harris,

By Malcolm Harris, from Kids These Days, a book about millennials that was published this month by Little, Brown. Read More

Monumental Error

by J. C. Hallman,

Will New York City finally tear down a statue?

Star Search

by Lisa Rab,

The race to rebuild the Democratic Party

Pushing the Limit

by Alexandra Starr,

What the U.S. Olympic Committee can — and can’t — do about sexual abuse

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