Richard Seymour, author of this article, on the cultural politics of the war in Ukraine • Emily Drabinski on the war against libraries • Annie Levin on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the fiction of the Cold War.

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Historian Lily Geismer, author of Left Behind, on the market-friendly New Democrats, from the 1970s into the 1990s and beyond. And Barry Eichengreen discusses the role of the dollar and threats to its pre-eminence.

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Alexander Zaitchik, author of Owning the Sun, on how the pharmaceutical industry became such a high-priced racket.

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Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute on what provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine, what motivates Putin, and where it might all go. Plus, fundraising.

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Christopher Leonard, author of The Lords of Easy Money, on the damage done by over a decade of hyper-easy monetary policy from the Federal Reserve, and Lea Ypi, a political philsopher and author of Free, on growing up in the last days of Communist Albania and the early days of its neoliberal successor.

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