Karen Yuan
How Instagram Saved Poetry
Social media is turning an art form into an industry.
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J Pat Carter / AP The Disquiet of Florida
Readers grapple with Lauren Groff’s character “consumed with anxiety about the state of the world.”
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Hulton Archive / Getty Images Reading While Angry
Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad is our October book-club pick; C. J. Chivers’ “War Without End” is the winner of our search for the next must-read piece of journalism.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters Will the Kavanaugh Hearings Propel Women to Congress?
“When women’s political fortunes are dependent on the political environment … ”
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Reed Saxon / Reuters Why Are American Colleges So Ridiculously Expensive?
The Masthead investigates.
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Mohamad Torokman / Reuters A Study Guide to the Rise of Authoritarianism
The historian Timothy Snyder’s new book has lessons for resisting the creep of tyranny.
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Jason Lee / Reuters The Murders That Sparked China’s Rideshare Boycott
In the past two years, four women have been killed by drivers for the popular Chinese ride-hailing app Didi. Users have had enough.
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Stringer / Reuters A Moral Case for Giving People Money
“Poverty is a human-rights issue.”
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Jim Wells / AP The Press vs. the President
A brief history of the struggles between journalists and the presidents they cover
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters How the Song of the Summer Is Changing
2018’s race for the song of the summer makes clear just how profoundly the center of popular music has shifted.
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters Let’s Debate Universal Basic Income in the U.S.
What’s your stance on the government giving people money?
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Charlottesville, 2018
The impact of “Unite the Right,” one year later
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Richard Vogel / AP The Case Against Abolishing ICE
Fixing the agency only requires going back a few years in its history.
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Darren Whiteside / Reuters How Autocrats Are Gaining the Upper Hand
A guide to the democratic recession
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AI Project / Reuters The Impossibility of Centrism
The division of American politics hasn’t left much room for the so-called centrists.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Black Box at the Heart of American Foreign Policy
What did Trump tell Putin in Helsinki? The answer doesn’t matter all that much.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Behind the School Integration Arms Race
Schools are resegregating, and there’s no appetite to aggressively police them.
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Reuters The Deleted WeChat Post That Fueled China's Vaccine Scandal
It alleged a complex web of corruption going back decades.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters Helsinki From All Angles
Here are the Trump-Putin takes you probably haven’t read.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters What Makes Us Move, What Makes Us Stay
The privilege of being able to seek a home and the pleasures of making a home in a place you’ve been given
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Elaine Thompson / AP Would You Want Amazon’s HQ2 in Your City?
The effects of HQ2 on your city—and you
