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“Biography of X” is a search for a woman so powerful and prominent that no one really knew her.

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Consulting firms may promise expertise and efficiency, but their effects on public agencies have been disastrous, Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington explain.

Daniel Scheinert used his emotional Oscars acceptance speech to defend drag.

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Alice Diop’s courtroom drama is a story of aspiration and cruelty in a racist society.

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

The musician turned representative says that a new visa plan will all but prevent non-rich foreign performing artists from being able to perform here.

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How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas

Our current system defines health as the ability to work. Those who can’t are abandoned and exploited.

Was the nineteenth-century Midwest “the most advanced democratic society that the world had seen”?

The rise of “Lean In”–style feminism—and the women who fought for a better alternative

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What would it mean to treat other living creatures fairly?

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