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In Geneffa Jahan's poem "Waiting" the speaker awaits her death as if it were an abusive lover.

This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong. From the author that first exposed the Cambridge Analytical scandal.

The Philadelphia Eagles and Kendrick Lamar’s collective of geniuses made this the Super Bowl we needed. This year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans could have been a fascist Mardi Gras. Then, the unexpected....

Over a century after Rosa Luxemburg was assassinated for opposing German militarism, her spirit lives on through those disrupting Israel’s war machine.

Instead of blaming the people they let down, the Harris campaign needs to look in the mirror and find fault with itself. Arab Americans and their concerns were given such short shrift by the campaign, it is wrong to hold them responsible for the loss

This book is the story of Daniel Murray, the assistant librarian of the Library of Congress from 1881-1922, and of the milieu and fate of the Reconstruction-era African American government workers and officials in Washington, DC.

A unionization wave sweeping across Off Broadway is poised to reshape the economics of theater-making in New York — for workers as well as producers. Workers say the move is overdue....

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Hamas says it will halt its captive releases until Israel complies with the terms of the ceasefire agreed between them.

Spending that the White House does not like is being labeled fraudulent. At the same time, President Trump is rolling back anticorruption efforts and ethical standards for himself and allies like Elon Musk.