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How John Paul Stevens Would Amend the Constitution
The former Supreme Court justice has some suggestions for a better democracy in his new book.
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Why Reading Globally Matters
The case for breaking our parochial American reading habits.
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Francois Mitterrand, the Man with a Plan
A new biography of the former president of France examines the man’s setbacks, gambles, and pragmatic self-reinventions.
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Piketty’s Triumph
Three expert takes on Capital in the Twenty-First Century, French economist Thomas Piketty’s data-driven magnum opus on inequality.
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The Decline of Conservative Publishing
The days when any two-bit hack with an anti-liberal screed could get on the bestseller lists are apparently behind us.
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No Exit: The Digital Edition
In her new book, Dragnet Nation, Julia Angwin shows how badly disadvantaged ordinary people are in the struggle for privacy online.
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The Ink-Stained Wretches of Wall Street
Dean Starkman’s The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark and the failures of the media during the financial crash.Â
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The Moment of Creation
Do America’s current challenges in the Middle East trace back to Harry Truman’s 1948 missteps? Â
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In Search of Gatsby’s People
Careless People takes us into the cultural hurly-burly—tabloid affairs and murders—that were likely on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s mind while writing The Great Gatsby.Â
