The Truth About Black Freedom
This year’s Juneteenth commemorations must take a deeper look at the history of Black self-liberation to understand what emancipation really means—and how far the country still has to go.
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Kill the Five-Day Workweek
Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making American life less about work.
Detective Fiction Has Nothing on This Victorian-Science Murder Mystery
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The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant
Kodak changed the way Americans saw themselves and their country. But it struggled to reinvent itself for the digital age.
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We understand how this will end. But who bears the risk that remains?
How America Fractured Into Four Parts
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The Pandemic Has Undone South Africa’s National Parks
Without tourism, the funding that sustains some of the world’s most treasured wildlife has atrophied.
The Minister of Chaos
Boris Johnson knows exactly what he’s doing.