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Student debt? The idea was alien to Americans for most of our history, until the predators got into the system, for-profit colleges began to proliferate (their students are about …

(Image: New York University Press) Experience, we are told, is a great teacher. If this is so, then my classroom was a clandestine prison and my …

(Image: City Lights Publishers) I have to confess to a longstanding fantasy, the fulfillment of which I resist, partly because of its impracticality, but also (and mostly) …

(Image: Metropolitan Books) From the Introduction “Signs and Wonders” This book is a chronicle of a confused time, a period when Americans rose up against imaginary threats …

Thy Neighbor’s Children: The 4/14 Window by Katherine Stewart Excerpted from “The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children” PublicAffairs, …

(Image: Beacon Press) In 1947, after reading a newspaper article about the crash of a plane carrying a group of Mexican contract workers back to the border, …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: skyfaller, coffeego 1, 2) Rarely have so few imposed such damage on so many. When five conservative members of the Supreme …

Thomas Frank, formerly an opinion writer for The Washington Post as well as a current monthly columnist for Harper's, is the founder of the journal The Baffler and the …

(Image: Dutton Adult) Prologue In the moments before she became a widow, veiled in blood, Sharon Lenox was happier than she’d been in ages. Her fifty-four-year-old husband, …

(Image: Yale University Press) Zora Neale Hurston writes Janie Mae Crawford as an irrepressibly independent woman. Janie leaves the economic security of her emotionally deadening first marriage …