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Baynard Woods: How a White Racist "Totalitarian" System Has Permeated All of American History and Why Reparations Might Be Its Only Fix
Emma Brodie on Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, a Love Affair So Melodic That It Had to Be Transformed Into Fiction
Jamie Bartlett on the Biggest Crypto Scam of All and the Heartless Bulgarian Cryptoqueen Behind It
Paul Thagard: Why Balance Is Essential in Our Vertiginous Age
Jenny Kleeman: What the End of Roe Might Tell us About the High Tech Future of Bird, Sex, Food, and Death
Peter Zeihan: Why the End of Globalization Is Just the Beginning of the Chaotic 2020s
Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague: Why the News About the Resilience of American Democracy Is Both Very Good and Very Bad
Steven Jones: What's the Point of Universities in Our Neo-Liberal Age of Radical Inequality and Fake News?
Kate Mangino: Why Boys, As Much as Girls, Benefit from Gender Equality At Home
Katherine Angel on One More Pro-Abortion Argument: Why Girls Need to Take Sexual Risks If They Are To Grow Up to Become Women
Alison Fairbrother on the Catch Within the Catch: How to Write a Feminist Novel About a Complicated Dad
Ben Tarnoff: Why Fixing the Internet Requires Political Struggle Rather Than Technological Innovation
Nelly Lahoud: Remembering Osama Bin Laden: Monster, Family Man, or Misguided Genius?