At the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, the past is alive and fighting.
Books
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The Real Moral Majority
Sen. Chris Murphy has a sense of what ails America, and he wants to restore its spiritual core.
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Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID?
Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.
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How Israel Got This Way
A new book by a genocide scholar traces the roots of the nation’s descent.
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What, Exactly, Is a Fair Wage?
Arindrajit Dube brilliantly dissects how wages really are set—but overlooks the particular hurdles that care workers face.
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Vertical Vertigo
Brian Callaci’s book describes the deregulatory strategies franchisors use to protect their profits.
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The Legacy of the Subway Vigilante
Two new books reveal how a 1980s shooting reflected rising right-wing attitudes in a rapidly gentrifying New York.
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Capital Ideas
Two books on the history of capitalism provide lessons for how to tame it.
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Notes for Next Time
My generation got a very good economic deal. We need to restore opportunities to our children and grandchildren, or there will be more recruits to MAGA.
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‘A Foreclosing of Options’: Racial Health Inequality in Washington, D.C.
Princeton’s Sanyu Mojola examines the public-health issues confronting America’s capital city.