Keen On America

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Keen On America

Maud Newton: How to Come to Terms With Troubling Ancestors

Isaac Fitzgerald: What's Wrong (And Right) With American Male Writers

Paul Tucker: What Chinese and American Statesmen Need to Do to Lessen Global Discord

Priyanka Kumar: How "Reading" Nature, Especially Birds, Enables Us to Transcend Ourselves

Ben Kesling: The Gut-Wrenching Story of One U.S. Army Unit's Experience in Afghanistan

Samantha Cole: How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex

RJ Andrews: Why the Future of Publishing For One Start-Up Entrepreneur is High-End and Analog Books That Visualize Data

Lenore Andreson: How California is Pioneering the Reform of the American Criminal Justice System

Claudia Lux: Imagining a Kafkaesque Hell in Which There Is Only Jägermeister to Drink and the Devil Is a Corporate Bureaucrat

Henrietta Harrison on the 18th-Century China Question: The Perils of Translating Between Qing China and the British Empire

Greg Melville: How Cemeteries Reveal America's Most Hidden and Often Deadliest History

Paul Sexton: Perhaps the Most Remarkable Thing About Charlie Watts Was Just How Remarkably Ordinary He Was

Colin L. Read on Not the People's Money: Uncovering Bitcoin's Catastrophic Economic and Environmental Cost

Karen Bakker: A Digital Dolittle? On Technology That Will Enable Us to Talk With Other Species… Including Plants and Trees

Evan Mandery: How Elite Colleges Divide, Disorient, and Diminish Us

Martin Rees on the Limits of Science: Why the Universe Might Be Too Complex For Humans to Ever Understand

Michael Stein on Accidental Kindness: A Doctor's Thoughts on the Importance of Empathy

John A. Farrell on How Ted Kennedy Became a Great Man When He Was Most Distanced From the U.S. Presidency

Mae Ngai on The Chinese Question: Gold Rushes, Migration, and the Global Politics and Economics of Race

Cody Keenan on Ten Days in June: On a Pivotal Moment in Barack Obama's "Battle" for America

Daniel Drache: Has Populism Won? Must Democratic Politics, on Both Left and Right, Be Populist Now?

Orly Lobel: Can Digital Technology Can Be Harnessed to Realize Equality, Inclusion, and a Brighter Future?

David Sax: Why, If We Want to Create a More Human World, the Future Must Be Analog

Jonathan Clegg on Messi, Ronaldo, and the Radical Remaking of the World's Game Over the Last 20 Years

Katie Hickman on Neither Heroines Nor Villains: The Brave-Hearted Women Who Settled the American West

Joseph Sassoon on A History of the Sassoons—One of the World's Great Global Merchant Families

Becca Andrews: How the Destruction of Roe v. Wade Undermines Fundamental American Rights

Vladislav M. Zubok on the Soviet Union Might Be Dead, But the Consequences of Its Disastrous Collapse Continue to Haunt Us

Emily Tamkin on Bad Jews: On American Jewish Politics and Identities

Nicci French on Two Minds, One Writer: How a Husband-and-Wife Have Strengthened Their Bond by Writing Psychological Thrillers About the "Twisty" Human Condition

Christine Wells on When 007 Was Female: A World War Two Novel About the Real Miss Moneypenny

Michael T. Hartney: Why American Teachers' Unions Are So Powerful and How This Hasn't Enriched Democracy or Improved Schooling in the United States Today

Robert T. Tally Jr. on Realizing History Through Fantasy Literature: Reclaiming Tolkien's Hobbit For the Left

Peter Robison: How Boeing's 737 Max Tragedy Offers a Parable About the Immorality of Late Stage Industrial Capitalism

Ann Hood: Why Is Flying So Miserable These Days? And Was It Really So Much More Fun in the Glamorous Age of Trans World Airlines and High Heeled Stewardesses?

Matthew F. Delmont: The Simultaneously Heroic and Shameful Story of African Americans' Involvement in World War II

David Welch: How General Motors CEO Mary Barra Is the Anti Elon Musk and How That Impacts Her Goal of Reinventing the Iconic American Car Manufacturer

Nicholas Dawidoff: How the Story of a 2006 Murder Captures the Tragic Complexity of Inequality, Class, and Violence in 21st-Century America

Kyle Spencer on Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot For Power

Trond Undheim: How Augmented Technology Can Revolutionize the 21st-Century Factory and Make Work More Productive and Meaningful

Timothy Shenk on Realigners: The Visionaries and Hacks Who Have Radically Transformed American Democracy

Veronica Roth on After Surveillance: Imagining a Post-Apocalyptic World in Which We Aren't Watched Anymore

Keith Boykin: How Quitting is the Essential First Step to a Life of Freedom—and Radical Change

Shadi Hamid: Is There a Problem of Democracy in the Middle East? Or Is the Problem With an American Misunderstanding of "Democracy"?

Natasha Warikoo: Is Affirmative Action Fair? Thinking About College in Terms of the Public Good

Ryan O'Hanlon on the End of the Beautiful Game? How the Analytics Revolution Is Changing Soccer

Maybe Even Republicans and Democrats Can Agree On This One: How Dreaming Big Requires Both Self-Deprecating Humor and the Ability to Cry

Anna Badkhen on Today's Bright Unbearable Reality: We Need to Dream Differently

Gautam Mukunda on How to Pick an American President? Making the Most Consequential Decision in the World

Lisa Hajjar on Fighting Guantanamo: How Hundreds of Lawyers Successfully Challenged the Illegal Treatment of Prisoners Captured in the American War on Terror