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New Jersey teacher and poet, Carol Smith explains the hazards of racist content, subtle, accidental, sometimes deliberate.

This new book is a chronicle of the Democratic Party’s left flank

Set against the corrupt, soulless “greed is good” (or was it greed is god?) era of Reaganomics, the punk characters of Repo Man consist of cynical suburban youth...

In a refugee camp, Hamada Shaqoura turns aid packages into pizza wraps, curry, and “Gazan style” tacos, gaining internet-wide attention. On Instagram, he offers the world a glimpse into the scarcity and ingenuity that define Palestinian survival.

The Disney+ series X-Men '97 finally shines a light on Sunspot, the first Latino character to be a core part of a televised X-Men team.

South Dakota poet Michelle Morin takes a super-long view of climate change, with or without us.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

'Lyd' is the story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world – and what it could have become.

At package-free stores you bring your own container, weigh it, and fill it with the amount of rice or walnuts or Peanut M&Ms that you want to take home. In the bigger context of the zero-waste movement, do these refilleries actually mean anything?

Netflix’s A Man In Full lacks Wolf’s sardonic bite, insider knowledge of privilege, and an outsider’s disdain for American institutions and the egomaniacs who lead them