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Women Take the Floor: The Resilient Reclamation of Feminine Resistance

“Women Take the Floor” candidly illustrates the blurred line between issues of feminist idealism, feminist pragmatism, and a restlessness to finally transcend the weight of the struggle. It doesn’t offer any easy answers, but rather illuminates a constant tension between various realities, possibilities and fantasies.

Patriotic Education: Pride or Problem?

"Patriotic education” claims to highlight our nation’s bedrock values and commemorate American progress, but it runs the pernicious risk of celebrating unfulfilled accomplishments and undermining ongoing injustice.

Ketamine Treats the Desperately Depressed

Though ketamine was originally used as a sedative and later well-known for being a party drug, recent research heralded its use as a therapeutic for suicidality.

Vaccine Hesitancy is the Biggest Hurdle to Overcoming COVID-19 — What’s to Blame?

Issues involving information dissemination are constant across all health crises, and COVID-19 is no exception. The more that we understand about how scientific information has been historically communicated, the better we can combat vaccine hesitancy today and answer the question: who, or what, is to blame for vaccine hesitancy, if anything?

Unpacking the Pervasive Toxicity of Republican Loyalty

The impeachment hearing which culminated in Trump’s acquittal was just the latest in a string of incidents proving that, for Republicans, there is no limit to partisan loyalty.

Why Tackling the Climate Crisis Means Transforming our Culture

Psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe's new book "Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis" gets to the heart of what’s keeping the policies and systems we need to achieve a just and sustainable future from coming into place.

Octopi, Pendulums, and Revolution: Ten Books from Lockdown Days

This book made me feel exactly the way I felt as a child when someone first told me, on some late starry night, that every star I was looking at was just a ball of fire, and all of it had come from some mysterious quantum fluctuation called the Big Bang. It’s beautiful, it’s simple, and it’s as close to a miracle as you’re likely to get.

Still Looking: A Glimpse at Obama’s Promised Land

I first opened “A Promised Land” — former President Barack Obama’s latest book and my Christmas gift — two days after the attack at...

For the Record: The Hidden History of ‘A Promised Land’

Everyone in the generations before me remembers where they were on 9/11. For me, an equally seminal moment was Barack Obama’s inauguration. Even in...

Luminous and Revelatory: ‘A Promised Land’ Reinstates a Pre-Trump America

Amidst the conflict-ridden climate of the past year, Obama's memoir's emphasis on diplomacy and compromise serves as an implicit response to the tribalistic rhetoric of the Trump era.