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How do you say goodbye to a beloved dog who will never understand what that means? A meditation on the limits of language ...

Imagining a world without prisons might seem like a fantasy. But for the US geographer and prison abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore, it’s not just a possibility but a necessity. A professor at the ...

In June 1963, Malcolm X and Alex Haley began working on the book that would define both their lives. The arrangement was simple. Malcolm usually arrived at Haley’s New York apartment at nine in the ...