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Liberties: A Magazine in Revolt Against the New

Liberties: A Magazine in Revolt Against the New Liberties: A Magazine in Revolt Against the New

Tolerance, rigor, open-mindedness, and a willingness to countenance doubt and contradiction apparently are all values the magazine champions in theory but tends to ignore in pract...

Oct 2, 2023 / Books & the Arts / David Klion

Mara Marques Cavallaro holding a photo of her grandmother.

50 Years Ago, My Family Fled Chile. This Year, I Returned. 50 Years Ago, My Family Fled Chile. This Year, I Returned.

I went to Chile for the anniversary of the 1973 coup to trace the country's painful history—and my own.

Sep 29, 2023 / Mara Marques Cavallaro

Where Did the Juries Go?

Where Did the Juries Go? Where Did the Juries Go?

While jury trials might have afforded citizens the chance to witness—and even contest—the criminalization of the working class, plea bargains have allowed this criminalization to ...

Sep 20, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Matthew Clair

Jewish children in the Soviet Union’s youth movement in Minsk.

The Saga of the Pale and Soviet Jews The Saga of the Pale and Soviet Jews

The trials and tribulations of a tumultuous period.

Sep 6, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Bela Shayevich

How Inequality Was Redefined as “Poverty”—Letting Capitalism Off the Hook

How Inequality Was Redefined as “Poverty”—Letting Capitalism Off the Hook How Inequality Was Redefined as “Poverty”—Letting Capitalism Off the Hook

In the 1960s, policy shifted from calling for the redistribution of wealth to enforcing an ideology of personal responsibility.

Sep 5, 2023 / Column / Adolph Reed Jr.

The Senator Who Took On the CIA

The Senator Who Took On the CIA The Senator Who Took On the CIA

Frank Church and the committee that investigated the US intelligence agencies.

Sep 5, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Adam Hochschild

Photographs of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger displayed during “Secrets of State: The Declassified History of the Chilean Dictatorship,” an exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile.

Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide

Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that must be dec...

Aug 31, 2023 / Peter Kornbluh

Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington

Martin Luther King’s Dream at 60 Martin Luther King’s Dream at 60

King offered Americans the choice between acting in accordance with the constitution and resistance—often violent—to change.  In many ways, we face the same choice today.

Aug 28, 2023 / Eric Foner

Drew Faust on Growing Up in the ’60s

Drew Faust on Growing Up in the ’60s Drew Faust on Growing Up in the ’60s

A conversation with Harvard’s first woman president about how she became a civil rights and anti-war activist.

Aug 28, 2023 / Q&A / Jon Wiener

 Was the Collapse of US-Russia Relations Inevitable?

Was the Collapse of US-Russia Relations Inevitable? Was the Collapse of US-Russia Relations Inevitable?

How US hubris and Russian paranoia undermined partnership.

Aug 22, 2023 / Feature / Thomas Graham

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