Books and Ideas

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One Year On, Trump Coverage Achieves Complete Closed Loop One Year On, Trump Coverage Achieves Complete Closed Loop

Some hot, fresh takes from the same old faces. 

Jan 24, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Ursula K. Le Guin

‘I Came With a Calling’: Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin ‘I Came With a Calling’: Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin

The writer died this week, at 88. 

Jan 24, 2018 / Zoë Carpenter

HBO High Maintenance The Guy

Weed Shall Overcome Weed Shall Overcome

No other TV series captures daily life in New York City quite like HBO’s High Maintenance.

Jan 20, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Judy Berman

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Who Could Have Guessed? Who Could Have Guessed?

It sure would be unfortunate if the president was mentally unfit. 

Jan 17, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Marc Raskin

Marcus Raskin, an Activist Heart and Soul Marcus Raskin, an Activist Heart and Soul

He was a man at ease in his own skin, though not in the world, which he constantly sought to change for the better.

Jan 15, 2018 / The Nation

#MeToo March

What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers

Young women writers who want to make their voices heard will follow her example in the years to come.

Jan 12, 2018 / StudentNation / Jordana Rosenfeld

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Poverty Is Eliminated! Poverty Is Eliminated!

You can’t really be poor unless you literally have nothing.

Jan 11, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Donald Trump Holding a Baseball Bat

Trump as Genius Trump as Genius

Another genius has been named. It’s Donald Trump (he’s self-proclaimed)— So smart he can explain, we hope, Why all his aides call him a dope.

Jan 11, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Paul Kingsnorth’s England

Paul Kingsnorth’s England Paul Kingsnorth’s England

In two new novels and a recent collection of essays, the English environmentalist and activist captures a country coming apart.

Jan 11, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Christopher de Bellaigue

The Precarious Generation

The Precarious Generation The Precarious Generation

It’s not the kids these days that we need to worry about, but the world their parents helped build.

Jan 10, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Jones

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