How a small group of activists took down the mining company destroying a Salvadoran watershed
This time, David beat Goliath.
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Meritocracy’s trail of humiliation
Michael Sandel considers some alternatives.
The Kindest Lie is a story about race and much more
In Nancy Johnson’s debut novel, a family secret draws a successful Black woman home to small-town Indiana.
Why did ISIS film its destruction of ancient Assyrian artifacts in the Mosul Museum?
Aaron Tugendhaft says all acts of image-breaking are also acts of image-making.
Do we still need institutions?
Yes, says Yuval Levin. But only if they serve a formative function.
Why the death penalty came back
And why it might be abolished
Donna Haskins defeats the devil
Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s book about a Black woman’s life is a model of ethnographic work that centers the voice of its subject.
Lies about the Old Testament
Brent Strawn aims to debunk mistruths that come from biblical illiteracy and anti-Semitism.