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Revenge of the Quants

Whitney Curry Wimbish

November 13, 2019

The knives are out for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Nothing to Learn

Tarence Ray

November 12, 2019

Pundits mine a chaotic Kentucky election for meaning

The Cry of Alice

J.C. Hallman

November 11, 2019

One of the best stories in Africa today is linked to one of the worst stories in America’s past.

The Tears of the Taxed

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

November 08, 2019

Ignore the rich: tax opposition has never been about liberty

How They Treat Us

Edna Bonhomme

November 06, 2019

In the NHS, black women and migrants still struggle to access adequate care

Reactionary GIFs

Eric Thurm

November 05, 2019

When a sitcom boy becomes an action man

A Night at the Library

Andrew Schwartz

October 28, 2019

1. In the early twentieth century, the Brooklyn Library system had numerous Carnegie-funded branches, but, unlike the Manhattan system, then developing its 42nd Street pièce de résistance, it lacked a Central Hub. Some academics and public figures toured France to draw ...

Austerity Blues

Meher Ahmad

October 25, 2019

After sixty years of IMF intervention, Pakistan has little to show for it

The Times Takes to TV

Maia Hibbett

October 24, 2019

The Times pursues "all the views that flit from print."

A Cosmopolitan Institution

Richard A. Greenwald

October 23, 2019

John Sexton and the new university

Dust to Dust

David Schurman Wallace

October 23, 2019

The oddly soothing apocalypses of László Krasznahorkai

All the Diplomat’s Women

Rafia Zakaria

October 22, 2019

Richard Holbrooke's affairs, foreign and domestic.