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The falling out between Omarosa Newman and the Trump Administration has been all over the news. Read all about it in this tell-all of her time in the White House.
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The latest issue of The Atlantic goes inside America’s unfolding immigration crisis with “How ICE Went Rogue.”
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Adiche has become the face of the contemporary feminist movement, and this slim work is a major reason why. She examines previous failures in feminism — especially a lack of inclusion and awareness — and offers compelling ideas about what the future of the movement needs to look like. Essential reading for anyone and everyone.
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Michiko Kakutani goes well beyond the most recent manifestations of lies in politics in tracing the origins of the trend; in fact, she goes beyond politics altogether. She ties much of our current discourse on “alternative facts” to the academic emergence of post-modernism in the liberal arts. While these notions aren't necessarily comforting, they are, at least, enlightening.
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Trump is not the first president to battle with the press. Pulitzer Prize winner Goodwin explores Theodore Roosevelt’s “complex and sometimes contentious partnerships” with investigative journalists.
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Rebecca Solnit has become a guiding light in progressive principles and feminism. This follow-up to her incredibly influential “Men Explain Things to Me” further examines the ways that misogyny and gender continue to impact the world in ways big and small.
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As wildfires rage across California, this absorbing — and suspenseful — account of a fire lookout’s time in remote New Mexico offers an insightful, lyrical look at forest fire-fighting policies.
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