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L.A. Doesn’t Have a Homelessness Crisis. It’s a Crisis of Abandonment.

According to the latest federal data , almost half of all unsheltered people in the United States live in California. This is a tragedy—and a...

Scott W. Stern

Not so long ago, socialism was on the up . Back in 2019—after Bernie Sanders’s first electrifying primary run, after tens of thousands flocked to...

The suggestion that Beloved , Toni Morrison’s acclaimed novel about slavery and its afterlives, is also a parable about the publishing industry...