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Take Action Now: Palantir’s Reign Must End
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NO TIME TO SPARE?
The statistics stand: LGBT youth remain at higher risk of suicide than their peers, but it...
In Trump’s Mafia, Even Goons Can Do Billion-Dollar Shakedowns
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Donald Trump is besotted by the romance of gangsterism. He’s the kind of viewer who sees classics such as the Godfather movies or Goodfellas not as cautionary tales but as how-to guid...
How a Creative Mind Lives In Nature
Working in the wilderness could not satiate my intellectual impulses. But for the protagonist of “Hothouse Bloom,” the binary between mental and physical labor is what calls her.
The first time I killed a deer, my uncle field-dressed it fo...
Tracking the Crisis: Market Jitters
President Donald Trump looks on as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 24. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
Published in conjunction with The Democracy Collaborative, TR...
Gloria Steinem’s Many-Splendored Feminist Life
by Joan Walsh
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There is no way to do justice to the 92 astonishing years of the incomparable feminist Gloria Steinem, who died at home, surrounded by friends, Wednesday night. I knew she had been weakening...
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