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Feminism
Feminist Legal Pioneer Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87
September 19, 2020Heather Cox Richardson
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Public Health
The Hidden Structural Racism in the American Response to Public Health Emergencies
July 23, 2020R. Drew Smith
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Activism
What Will It Take for Black Lives to Matter?
July 9, 2020Todd Gitlin
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Race
Harnessing Federal Power for Police Reform in America
July 8, 2020Richard Johnson, Desmond King
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The Supreme Court’s DACA Ruling & Me
July 1, 2020José Ángel Navejas
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Race
The Rise of Liberal Support for Racial Justice
June 25, 2020Sanford Schram, Richard Fording
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Politics
Why Don’t We Call It Treason?
June 24, 2020John Stoehr 
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New York City
Bernie Sanders’s Socialism Is New York Born and Bred
June 24, 2020Charlotte Slivka, Ted Hamm
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Activism
Why “Abolition of the Police” Is a Bad Idea
June 18, 2020Jeffrey C. Isaac
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Kinships
Taking Children
June 8, 2020Laura Briggs
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The Internet
Wired Politics
June 4, 2020Claire Potter
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Activism
What Is to Be Done?
June 4, 2020Eli Zaretsky, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Elzbieta Matynia

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