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A Brief History of America’s Campaign Against Dissident Newsmaking

A Brief History of America’s Campaign Against Dissident Newsmaking

Aaron Boehmer on Underground Presses and State Violence

By Aaron Boehmer | March 26, 2025

Bill McKibben on the Joys of Writing a Serialized Novel

Bill McKibben on the Joys of Writing a Serialized Novel

Why Weekly Installments Can Make For the Best Kind of Storytelling

By Bill McKibben | January 4, 2023

The Makings of Grace Paley: Writer, Activist, Feminist

The Makings of Grace Paley: Writer, Activist, Feminist

Judith Arcana on the Writer's Upbringing, Marriage, Motherhood, and Career

By Judith Arcana | December 11, 2019

Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

The Ongoing and Depressing Relevance of a 200-Year-Old Thinker

By Emily Temple | July 12, 2017

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

“The law will never make men free; it is men who make the law free.”

By Howard Zinn | July 12, 2017

How Thoreau (And My Father) Taught Me That Literature is a Public Good

How Thoreau (And My Father) Taught Me That Literature is a Public Good

"This Function is as Vital as Air, as Vital as Water"

By Kristen Case | July 12, 2017

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The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. on His Son's Legacy

By The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. | January 16, 2017

Jane Jacobs on Civil Disobedience and the Necessity of Resistance

Jane Jacobs on Civil Disobedience and the Necessity of Resistance

"Civil disobedience is an extension of self-government."

By Jane Jacobs | November 8, 2016