Most Read This Week In Social Issues

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Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds

The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion

At Midnight Comes the Cry (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries Series, #10)

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

Unseen: How I Lost My Vision but Found My Voice

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith

Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises

Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America

“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters

White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say

The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

The Deserving: What the Lives of the Condemned Reveal About American Justice

The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea

Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics

Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973

You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

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Quotes Tagged “Social Issues”

“ And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever existing form of media, harrassed, molested, raped, and, if all that wasn't enough, is forever poked and prodded and weighed and constantly wrong for eating too much, eating too little, a million details which all point to the solitary girl, to EVERY solitary girl, and say: Destroy yourself. ...more ”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

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“ It is in the linkage between freedom of movement and equality of opportunity that the analogy with feudalism cuts most deeply. Under feudalism, there was no commitment to equal opportunity. The social circumstances of one’s birth largely determined one’s opportunities, and restrictions on freedom of movement were an essential element in maintaining the limitations on the opportunities of those with talent and motivation but the wrong class background. (Of course, gender was another pervasive con ...more ”
― Joseph H. Carens, The Ethics of Immigration

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