Civil rights lawyer Tanya Katerí Hernández takes up a sensitive but critical subject.
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The Possible World After Globalism
If we can dethrone the reign of Big Finance and Big Tech, what new worlds can we imagine?
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Don’t You Forget About ‘Abbott Elementary’
The show that rejuvenated the network sitcom is a quietly subversive commentary on class politics.
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Vinnie, L.A., and Me
Point of personal privilege: Vin Scully (1927–2022) and the romance of words
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How American Politics Turned Deadly
The explosive consequences of the realignment of the two major parties
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Hollywood’s Role in Stigmatizing Abortion
And its responsibility now
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The Enablers of Predatory Capitalism
How free-market economists, central bankers, rapacious CEOs, and free-trade diplomats undermined the New Deal order
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The Pain Profiteers
Two new books reveal the distortion of the U.S. health care system by financial operators.
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The Giant Pandemic Pool of Money
A new book details the penny-ante crooks extracting federal cash during COVID, and the disastrous budget decisions that gave them the opportunity.
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A Personal History Along Route 28
Danica Roem, the nation’s first openly transgender state legislator, triumphed by owning her story and focusing on what voters care about.
