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Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

Aron Solomon Looks at American Law Through a Jazz Age Lens

By Aron Solomon | June 24, 2025

How Donald Trump’s Truculent Retro Masculinity Duped Working Class Men

How Donald Trump’s Truculent Retro Masculinity Duped Working Class Men

Joan C. Williams on the Economic and Emotional Factors Behind the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in America

By Joan C. Williams | June 13, 2025

As Big Publishing Gets More Corporate, Shouldn’t the Salaries Go Up?

As Big Publishing Gets More Corporate, Shouldn’t the Salaries Go Up?

Maris Kreizman Has Some Questions

By Maris Kreizman | February 27, 2025

The Great (Un)Equalizer: How Black and Native Families Struggle to Achieve Social Mobility Through Education

The Great (Un)Equalizer: How Black and Native Families Struggle to Achieve Social Mobility Through Education

Eve L. Ewing on the Structural Factors Behind Economic and Educational Inequality in America

By Eve L. Ewing | February 12, 2025

How a Legacy of Poverty and Systematic Exclusion Created “White Trash” in America

How a Legacy of Poverty and Systematic Exclusion Created “White Trash” in America

Jaydra Johnson on the Intersections of Literature, Classism and Family History

By Jaydra Johnson | November 8, 2024

How Vulnerable Low-Wage Workers Power AI Algorithms

How Vulnerable Low-Wage Workers Power AI Algorithms

Madhumita Murgia on the Precarious Labor Behind the Digital Revolution

By Madhumita Murgia | June 21, 2024

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Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn on the Tax Codes, Unequal Education, and Homegrown Inequality

By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn | January 24, 2020

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