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Historian Shawn Gude on his new biography of one of the 20th century’s most fascinating political figures.

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For the Super Bowl, New Orleans forced unhoused people into a grim warehouse—and paid a private contractor $17.5 million for it—while billionaires’ superyachts floated on the Mississippi. How much ...

There’s plastic in the sausage, and the clams have hepatitis. A greedy power circle runs our food system, and their push for deregulation is calamitous.

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Education critic and activist Jonathan Kozol on America's unequal public school system and what we can do about it. I'd like to start by giving you a sense of the essence of my new book. The public ...

Gideon levy is one of Israel's leading dissident journalists. His new book The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe is perhaps the harshest condemnation of Israel's war on Gaza from any Israeli.