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How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero

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Ultra-educated, highly paid, overworked elites are not partners in the struggle to reform an unequal system.

Samantha Power did not set out to justify war.

The conservative commentariat’s love affair with nootropics

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Why was his World War II novel "Stalingrad" shunned by publishers for so long?

To avert global catastrophe, we urgently need to resurrect the ancient ideal of solidarity.

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