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Greg Marinovich • The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War

“Among men, it’s not the kind of thing they’d ever share in a locker room or with a buddy over beer,” Covington says. “It becomes a very private, isolating experience.”
Shanna H. Swan • Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race
After Trump took office, DJ Patil watched with wonder as the data disappeared across the federal government. Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior removed from their websites the links to climate change data. The USDA removed the inspection reports of businesses accused of animal abuse by the government. The
... See moreMichael Lewis • The Fifth Risk
Real stories like this, human ones, could get you sent to prison, and it didn’t matter what they were about. It didn’t matter if the story was about an old woman or a squid attack—if it diverted emotion from the Dear Leader, it was dangerous. Jun Do needed his typewriter, he needed to get this down, this was the whole reason he listened in the
... See moreAdam Johnson • The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The cases of two scholars, Rebecca Tuvel and Bruce Gilley, immediately come to mind. Tuvel wrote a paper for the feminist philosophy giant Hypatia, exploring parallels between transracial and transgender identities and advocating transracial identity statuses. However, for Theory, race and gender are profoundly different. To claim transgender
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