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  • In her new book, “Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet,” Chelsea Wald explores the problem and promise of toilet technology.
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    In an excerpt from her new book, science journalist Chelsea Wald writes on the unintended result of a movement to ban pay toilets.

  • Kindergarten students during a lockdown drill in Hawaii in 2003.
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    In his new book, “Children Under Fire,” John Woodrow Cox writes about how gun violence affects children and the nearly $3 billion market for school security.

  • Is the tax code racist?
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    Professor Dorothy Brown of Emory University became a “detective,” searching for data on how the tax code impacts Black Americans.

  • An oil drilling rig in North Dakota in 2013.
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    In a new book, Michael Patrick F. Smith reflects on his time working on an oil field in North Dakota.

  • A child holds a sign at a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City on June 9, 2020.
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    In her new book, “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together,” Heather McGhee looks at how racism drained not only public pools, but also public support for universal healthcare and other “big government” policies.

  • Inmates worship during Christmas Mass at Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles. In a new book, sociologist Reuben Jonathan Miller examines the effects of incarceration after it ends.
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    In a new book, sociologist Reuben Jonathan Miller explores the punishments formerly imprisoned people face after their release. Read an excerpt here.

  • "Like any sorority, white feminism does have specific parameters for anyone who wants to join their cause," writes Beck. "Just ask those beyond the parameters." Above, a woman removes two masks after disinfecting a hospital room used by a COVID-19 patient.
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    Read an excerpt from the new book “White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind,” by Koa Beck.

  • People wait in line to receive donated groceries on May 6, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York City.
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    Will that make it better or worse? Scott Galloway, professor at the NYU Stern School, weighs in with his new book, “Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity.”

  • The royal family celebrating the Queen's 90th birthday in 2016. Color is an essential part of Queen Elizabeth II's wardrobe, writes Elizabeth Holmes.
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    In this book excerpt, veteran style journalist Elizabeth Holmes writes about how Meghan Markle used fashion to respond to media criticism.

  • In his new book, “Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last,” author Wright Thompson explains how tax policy helped Kentucky become the whiskey capital of America.
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    Like all Kentucky bourbons, the famous whiskey brand owes its origin to American tax law.