Donald Trump, a candidate with all the subtlety of talk radio, is the perfect expression of both the politics and media of our time.
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The War on the Poor
The welfare reform of the 1990s left millions of Americans near destitution.
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Security for a Precarious Workforce
What will it take, economically and politically, to broadly regularize employment? Â
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Caricature of Black Reality
Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the race book of the year. Too bad it’s disempowering.
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How the Bankers Destroyed the Dream
The mortgage collapse was an entirely avoidable crisis—a brew of elite financial lobbying and bad policy.Â
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Piety and Politics in America
The tension between religiosity and secular government goes back to the nation’s founding. Â
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The Real Story of the American Family
Two new books explain how rising inequality shattered the working-class family of the mid-20th century.
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When the Student Movement Was a CIA Front
The CIA’s manipulation of the National Student Association foreshadowed other forms of Cold War blowback that compromised democracy at home.
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Today’s GOP: The Party of Jefferson Davis — Not Lincoln
If you think the Civil War is over, think again.
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Historian as History-Maker: Isabel Wilkerson Calls All of America to Account for Racial Injustice
The acclaimed author of The Warmth of Other Suns is not about to let the North off the hook. A conversation with the chronicler of the Great Migration.
