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For how important teachers are in the development of our children, teaching remains one of the most under-resourced, underpaid, and underappreciated professions in the United States. This is what writer—and substitute teacher—Alexandra Robbins explores in her latest book, The Teachers.
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Crystal Marie Moten’s Continually Working is an excellent addition to our historic records and a much-needed honoring of Black women.
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The Influencer Industry offers an excellent account of how young creatives turned the internet from a collection of decentralized pages to a highly interconnected, multi-billion-dollar enterprise.
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Alex Prud’homme’s Dinner with the President shines in revealing how the comforts of a good meal can help us tap back into our humanity and reconnect with one another during an ideologically divided and socially distanced era.
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Kathleen Hale’s comprehensive narrative of the Slenderman stabbing case is a cautionary tale for us all, illustrating how denying the existence of a problem doesn’t make it go away—it only shifts the burden of who must deal with it, often to vulnerable people without the full capacity to handle it.
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