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He Left Me Hundreds

Florence Weinberger In the Black, In the Red: Poems of Profit $ Loss
Poet Florence Weinberger contemplates what her husband, an Auschwitz survivor, left behind.

The Missing Persons of Reconstruction

Joshua D. Rothman The New Republic
Enslaved families were regularly separated​. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited​ with their loved ones.

US Pop Culture Has Long Raged Against Health Care Injustice

David K. Seitz Jacobin
The memes celebrating Luigi Mangione are far from novel: they represent a long tradition of American popular culture voicing outrage at the injustices of our health care system, from Dog Day Afternoon to Star Trek: Voyager to John Q.