Book Review
The Education Factory
By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.
Partner
Journal Article
A People’s Bank at the Post Office
The Postal Savings System offered depositors a US government-backed guarantee of security, but it was undone by for-profit private banks.
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Abortion in America
How women terminated pregnancies in the past, and how contemporary understandings of that history shape today's battles over reproductive rights.
Retrieval
The Most Hated Sound on Television
For half a century, viewers scorned the laugh track while adoring shows that used it. Now it has all but disappeared.
Book Review
Eternity Only Will Answer
Funny, convivial, chatty—a new edition of Emily Dickinson's letters upends the myth of her reclusive genius.
Book Review
The Perfectionist Tradition
The African American perfectionists offered “faith” instead of “hope”—emphasizing the struggle to realize a vision of justice.
Longread
The Life and Death of Hollywood
Film and television writers face an existential threat.