The Editors

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Anger and Identity: JSTOR Daily Reads the News

What's the political use of anger?

Friday Reads in the Digital Library

Here is your Friday Five: Five new books out this week, and links to related content you won't find anywhere else. Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi’s firs

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Avoiding Autoimmune Diseases

Avoiding autoimmune disease may depend on your social class and the ecosystems you’re exposed to.

Walt Whitman as photographed by Brian Handy

Arts & Culture

Walt Whitman: (Happy Birthday) Song of Himself

Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman, you old bard and…politician. Clearly you like to sing to yourself, but let us join ...

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A Matter of Taste

The psychology of taste : we like what we can easily identify.

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Child’s Play

Play is an important part of child development; Paul Tough tells us about strategies to encourage healthy child development.

Verbatim

A Telephone Conversation with Malcolm X

This 1965 telephone conversation between Malcolm X and meeting organizers in Paris took place just weeks before his assassination.

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Netflix and Chill

"Netflix and chill" is just the latest trend in 100+ years of changing courtship rituals.

Bernie Sanders sitting in front of the New York Public Library with his mittens crossed

Verbatim

A Vintage Op-Ed from Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders' February 2003: "On My Mind: The Patriot Act's Threat to Libraries" published in American Libraries.

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Anxiety and Treatment

Anxiety is on the rise in the general populace, says Will Hutton in this weekend’s Guardian.

Education & Society

Jane Jacobs and the American City

Jane Jacobs, who would have been 100 today and is the focus of the Google Doodle , was a big part of why cities like New York City and Toronto look and feel

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