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Ben Austen is a journalist and the author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing. Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Together they host the podcast Some of My Best Friends Are.

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The Essays That Made Gloria Steinem an Icon

Posing as a Playboy bunny. Deconstructing porn. Examining the myth of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Gloria Steinem, who turned 80 in March, has always been a fearless writer. And nowhere is that more clear than in her timeless essay collection, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions.

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The Rhyme of History

On the echoes between the world leading up to World War I and our present international trajectory. Then, as globalization, nationalism, and radicalism converged, and tensions within the Balkans served as a spark. Today, conflicts in the Middle East, whose borders were mostly drawn in the wake of World War I, could play a similar role.