MSNBC host Chris Hayes likes to refer to himself as a self-righteous, loud-mouthed pundit.
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Junot Díaz talks Dominican identity, immigration and the (complicated) American Dream
The American dream is at the center of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Díaz.
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Confessions of a CIA interrogator
Jerome Donnelly reviews “Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein” by John Nixon.
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The Rich We Will Always Have With Us
On measures of well-being, residents of the United States fare worse than residents of countries like Canada, Sweden or Japan, all of which are less wealthy but more equal.
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A new path for unions in America
In ‘Beyond 15,’ Jonathan Rosenblum scolds Barack Obama for being “more invested in bailing out the financial sector than in expending political capital for workers’ rights.”
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Spirituality that makes sense
in ‘The Virgin Eye,’ Robin Daniels shares spiritual wisdom wherever he finds it.
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‘American Gods’ explores the power of belief
“American Gods” looks primed to deliver interesting meditations on belief, as well as visually sumptuous storytelling.
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Reflecting on the frightening lessons of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
If anyone doubted the damage a shallow, sanitized Marian ideal of womanhood could inflict—on women, on faith and on the church—Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ shows us.
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Emmett Till: the lynching that shook the conscience of the world
One cannot begin to understand the current deterioration of American race relations without confronting the enduring realities of white supremacy present in the case of Emmett Till.
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The literary genius of Cervantes
D. Scott Hendrickson reviews “The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World” by William Egginton