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It’s Time for Americans to Reckon With the True History of Racial Oppression in This Country It’s Time for Americans to Reckon With the True History of Racial Oppression in This Country

In “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America,” Jeffery Robinson aims to help us do just that.

Jun 11, 2018 / Collier Meyerson

Ira Berlin

Ira Berlin, 1941–2018 Ira Berlin, 1941–2018

Remembering a man who transformed scholarship on slavery and African-American culture.

Jun 8, 2018 / Eric Foner

James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, and the Politics of Southern Multiculturalism

James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, and the Politics of Southern Multiculturalism James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, and the Politics of Southern Multiculturalism

The search for cultural diversity and social equality.

Jun 7, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Robert Greene II

Second and Third Thoughts on Tom Wolfe

Second and Third Thoughts on Tom Wolfe Second and Third Thoughts on Tom Wolfe

He was blithely unaware of how his journalistic cutting edge sliced one family into ribbons—mine.

Jun 1, 2018 / Feature / Jamie Bernstein

Finding a Way Back Home

Finding a Way Back Home Finding a Way Back Home

The many Philip Roths.

May 25, 2018 / David Marcus

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Letters From the June 18-15, 2018, Issue Letters From the June 18-15, 2018, Issue

The devil in the details… Massing replies… The ACLU forsworn…

May 24, 2018 / Our Readers and Michael Massing

Zora Neale Hurston and the Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade’s Last Survivor

Zora Neale Hurston and the Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade’s Last Survivor Zora Neale Hurston and the Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade’s Last Survivor

Even after Emancipation, Kossula Oluales spent the rest of his life trying to recover what was lost.

May 23, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Elias Rodriques

Army-McCarthy hearings

Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism

Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.

May 21, 2018 / Ellen Schrecker

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s

They weren’t friends, and they weren’t all of the same generation, but they all shared a similar view of how we should relate to nature. 

May 9, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bill McKibben

Pledge of Allegiance by Dorothea Lange

No Barbed Wire, No Guard Towers No Barbed Wire, No Guard Towers

The photographic legacy of the WWII-era detainment of Japanese Americans is itself a product of historical forces.  

May 4, 2018 / Madeleine Han

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