Durante el tiempo que pasó en el Valle de Coachella, California, el periodista Gabriel Thompson exploró cómo las comunidades latinas de la región se han adaptado a una vida de miedos e incertidumbre durante la administración de Trump.
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Considering the Novel in the Age of Obama
Have “postmodern” and “postwar” have become outmoded as classifications for novels? Lorentzen suggests it’s more useful to look at trends in fiction relative to the administration they were released under. During Obama’s, he says, novelists looked to answer questions of authenticity. During Trump’s, he anticipates dystopian narratives.
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The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
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To Win in Georgia, Ignore the Data and Follow the Signs
The race in Georgia’s 6th District has been blessed with the DNC’s millions, but only takes some of its advice.
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The Problem With Obama’s Faith in White America
A response to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “My President Was Black” from sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom: “My first black president seems to think he can have black cool without black burden. For all his intimacies with his white mother and white grandparents, my first black president doesn’t appear to know his whites.”
Posted ineducation, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
A Long, Lasting Influence on Educational Equity
As the Philadelphia Eagles start the 2018-19 NFL season, defensive end Chris Long is also committed to making wins off the field by creating educational equity for students in the United States.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
Decolonizing Knowledge: Stefan Bradley on the Fight for Civil Rights in the Ivy League
In the 1960s, black students at the Ivies organized and protested for fair treatment, their personal safety, to create black studies programs, and to stop their universities from harming local black communities through expansion and urban renewal.
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The Return of the Face
Physiognomy is a discarded 19th-century pseudoscience. Why can’t we stop practicing it?
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction
The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
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What if Free Outdoor Theater is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy?
Fox News, Bank of America, and Delta are shocked to learn about the Public Theater’s new production of ‘Julius Caesar.’
