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Can Democrats win back postindustrial America?

How the Falwells are expanding their evangelical empire into college football’s highest reaches

A zuihitsu from the early months of the pandemic

The Pentagon banned Confederate flags in a memo that neither included the word “ban” nor the word “Confederate.”

As of this writing, the United States, which has 4.2 percent of the world’s population, accounts for nearly 30 percent of total COVID-19 mortalities. Among Americans, a common response to such abysmal numbers has been to deflect, to describe this...

Wordsworth at 250

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Seattle’s police department said that at least 50 percent of its BIPOC police officers would be fired if the city followed through with efforts to defund it.

Tracing the origins of the German nation

It was revealed that a member of the East Baton Rouge Parish school board in Louisiana had been shopping online during a meeting about renaming Lee High School, which was named after Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

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The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at [email protected] Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are...

Or, The decline of American verse

By Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Garth Greenwell, Eileen Myles, Darryl Pinckney, Brontez Purnell, and Michelle Tea

A metropolis can transform, and even die, with little warning. Alone in an apartment in an unnaturally stilled New York City, I found it eerie to read about Tsuneno, a woman from Japan’s provinces who settled in the administrative capital, Edo, and...