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The Foreseeable Future
Features

The Foreseeable Future

Making predictions about 2021 seems downright foolhardy. We did it anyway.

Word Nerd
Features

Word Nerd

John McWhorter is best known as a cultural critic who garners bouquets and brickbats from left and right alike. But he’s really a linguistics geek at heart.

by Deni Ellis Béchard

Meet Elora López-Nandam
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Meet Elora López-Nandam

Diving into microscopic marine mysteries.

by Jill Patton

By the People, for the People
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By the People, for the People

A bilingual newspaper chronicles the Mission District’s transformations.

by Deni Ellis Béchard

Mischief Managed
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Mischief Managed

Stately and venerable, this oak tree witnessed antics that were anything but.

by Charity Ferreira

Historian Ana Raquel Minian on Immigrant and Latinx Rights
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Historian Ana Raquel Minian on Immigrant and Latinx Rights

A story of shifting public sentiment and interconnected economies.

by Deni Ellis Béchard

Historian James Campbell on White Backlash
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Historian James Campbell on White Backlash

Freedom, justice and equality are too often seen as zero-sum.

by Deni Ellis Béchard

Sociologist Matthew Clair on Race and Class in Criminal Justice
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Sociologist Matthew Clair on Race and Class in Criminal Justice

It takes more than a movement to transform the system.

by Deni Ellis Béchard

Politics Scholar Omar Wasow on Protests, Violence and the Media
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Politics Scholar Omar Wasow on Protests, Violence and the Media

How activists tell their stories can help build coalitions, says the Class of ’92 alum and Princeton assistant professor.

by Deni Ellis Béchard

The Doctor in Charge of the NBA Bubble
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The Doctor in Charge of the NBA Bubble

Five swabs a day keeps COVID away, and other tales from the league’s unprecedented epidemiological experiment.

by Kelli Anderson