On the five-year anniversary of Turkey's Gezi protests, Nick Ashdown describes how the "soul of Gezi" still exists in the country.
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The Problem of the Person Who Observes from a Distance: Talking to Rachel Galvin
Andy Fitch interviews Rachel Galvin, author of "News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945."
Rent Control Keeps Prices Down for Everyone. Why? Because the Housing Market Is Driven Primarily by Speculative Forces, Not Supply and Demand
Julian Smith-Newman makes the case for rent control as a solution to California's housing affordability crisis.
On Masculinity
The first of Kristina Marie Darling's essay series "Billed Into Silence."
The Drone and the Tunnel: How We Read Indigenous Stories Matters
Callum Angus considers the narrative strategies of two recent books, "Darwin's Ghosts" by Ariel Dorfman and Tommy Orange's "There There."
The Dangers of Secrecy in Egg and Sperm Donation
Angela Lawson outlines the potential problems with non-disclosure in egg and sperm donation.
Why Won’t Keirstead or Rouda Bow Out, Open Door for Rohrabacher Defeat in CA 48?
Tom Zoellner talks to Harley Rouda and Hans Keirstead, the two top democrats with a chance to defeat Dana Rohrabacher in the CA 48 primary.
The Face Behind the Case: Janus v. AFSCME, Dark Money, and the Future of Labor
Mansoor Khan on the impending Janus v. AFSCME decision and the fate of the labor movement.
The Mars Room: A Maximalist Portrait of the California Prison System
Louise McCune reviews Rachel Kushner's compassionate, complex novel "The Mars Room."
The Trick Is There Is No Trick: Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman
Nathan Scott McNamara reviews Tessa Fontaine's memoir of resilience and discovery "The Electric Woman."