At the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, the past is alive and fighting.
Culture & the Arts
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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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Vertical Vertigo
Brian Callaci’s book describes the deregulatory strategies franchisors use to protect their profits.
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Sundance Is Over. Long Live Sundance.
Will there be life after Utah (and Robert Redford) for America’s biggest film festival?
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‘Cadillac Desert’ Reconsidered
Marc Reisner’s 1986 book demonstrates how a hypertrophic judiciary combines with America’s deadlocked legislature to make vast swaths of Western water policy dependent on 19th-century legal norms.
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Philadelphia Art Museum Workers Struggle for a Contract
Two years after winning a union vote, workers are still negotiating with the cultural icon. They’re raising the pressure on management.
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Black Culture and History Matter
It took 150 years after America officially abolished slavery to get a national museum on the black experience.
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New Treasure in Maine
The Colby College Museum of Art reopens, ready to share its $100 million gift and quietly bold vision.
