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For both friends and activists, Boudin’s passing is the loss of a generous soul, uncompromising radical, parent, and guide on the path to responsibility and redemption.
May 3, 2022 / Jeff Jones and Eleanor Stein
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Her latest novel tackles a favorite topic of her fiction—the excesses of the Internet and modern technologies.
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Garbes’s new book looks at what it means to be a parent when we are “caught between the way we were raised and the way we want to live.”
May 3, 2022 / Q&A / Sara Franklin
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May 3, 2022 / Our Readers and Meredith Tax
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May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Gerald Horne
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May 3, 2022 / Elie Mystal
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What India’s demolition of Muslim homes reveals about the India-Israel relationship.
May 2, 2022 / Pranay Somayajula
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As students traveled home after YDSA’s winter conference, the future was still an open question, but their goal was clear.
May 2, 2022 / StudentNation / Zurie Pope
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Joan Scott’s On the Judgment of History asks us to imagine the past without the idea of progress. But what gets left out in the process?
May 2, 2022 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell