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Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs Minister of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, and Foreign Affairs Minister of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan participate in the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House September 15, 2020 in Washington, DC, USA. They stand on a balcony, waving at the photographers below. Photo by Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)
Policy

Biblical Failure

Why the Abraham Accords were never going to bring peace to the Middle East.

by Fatima Ayub

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A dark green toy soldier shaped like Ronald McDonald doing a salut, wearing a helmet. It's on a bright yellow background.
Food

The Proxy Fast Food War

by Alex Park

An illustration of a person in an all green outfit, holding a work bag, briskly walking towards the right side of the image, representative of workers returning to office. Behind them is a person in blue jeans and a black t-shirt, standing still, looking at their shoes—representative of the workers left behind.
Disability

Who Do Workplaces Actually Accommodate?

by s.e. smith

Books

What We’re Reading This Fall

by The Conversationalist Team

An illustration of a yellow canary with a pink mullet sitting on a tree branch. Below, two birdwatchers are looking at the bird from below, one pointing at the bird and the other looking through binoculars. In the background, there is a construction on what appears to be a new luxury high rise building. To the left, is a row of brownstones; on the right, is another luxury high rise.
Art

“Where the F*ck Are the Artists Going to Live?”

by Cara Marsh Sheffler

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An illustration of a woman with long dark hair with one arm around a tree; her other hand is cupping her ear as if to hear what the tree is saying to her. They are surrounded by colorful leaves.
Old Friends

Have You Made a Non-Human Friend Today?

by Molly Savard

An illustration of two friends lying on the floor, one wearing a light blue, short sleeved collared shirt, her hands clasped over her chest and her eyes closed; the other woman is wearing a pink blouse and is leaning on her shoulder, looking up at the sky. Behind them there is a checkered blanket and bouquets of flowers. In two inserts, we see the woman in the pink shirt alone, clearly in pain and grieving.
Old Friends

“Then Came the Bodies”

by Marianne Eloise

An illustration of five friends, arms linked, exploring somewhere new.
Culture

The Healing Power of the Friendship Retreat

by Alanna Bennett

A painting of a woman from behind, holding a glass of wine and looking out at a party where everyone is socializing.
Culture

No New Friends

by Amil Niazi

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Politics

Equal Rights Amendment supporters voice their disapproval of the 22-16 vote against E.R.A. in the Florida Senate as they streamed out of the capitol for a demonstration and shouted "vote them out" in response to the Senate vote, June 21, 1982. It is a black and white photo of women gathered in protest. They appear to be shouting.
Abortion

Voting Isn’t Going to Be Enough

by Raina Lipsitz

Thousands of Yazidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains as they tried to escape from Islamic State (IS) forces, are rescued by Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Peoples Protection Unit (YPG) in Mosul, Iraq on August 09, 2014.
Identity

The Story of the Yazidi Genocide Isn’t Over

by Fréderike Geerdink

A black and white photo of the United States Supreme Court Building, with the pieces scrambled out of order. In color, there is a photo of VP Kamala Harris laughing and clapping down the center.
Elections

The United States v. The Rule of Law

by Anna Lind-Guzik

A collage with a black background and flashes of deep blue. In the top left corner, a fragment of a black and white photo of a woman seemingly naked, her hand to her mouth. In the right bottom corner, a black and white photo of a surgery room. The black running through the center conveys a rip between the two.
Abortion

The Reality of a National Abortion Ban

by Raina Lipsitz

A collage on a fuzzy black background, with a disembodied hand holding a white cutout in the shape of a phone. There are fractured pieces scattered over the image, including one green triangle, one red triangle, and two triangles that show pieces of a keffiyeh. There is a fractured shard of an eye layered over the phone.
Conflict

What We Owe Gaza’s Journalists

by Safiyah Zaidi

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Various oil portraits of Victorian women blur into each other, overlapping and blending in unsettling ways; all of them looking somewhat bored. There's a pink wash over the whole image.
Gender

“Everything a Woman Ought to Know”

by Katie Dancey-Downs

Illustration of a vegetarian fast food restaurant. Many people can be seen enjoying their food, while others are seen ordering it. In small bubbles hovering over food items, we see a breakdown of the ingredients that went into them. On the left side of the illustration, we see a sweeping landscape of a farm, and a farmer holding a box of veggies, waving at one of the cashiers in the store.
Capitalism

Is An Ethical Fast Food Chain Possible?

by Alex Park

A pastel drawing of a woman with black hair and a green, long sleeved tunic standing in a closet. We see the back of her head as she looks over her shoulder at a hanging, long-sleeved white shirt, while reaching her hand out to hold the sleeve.
Love

If Clothes Make the Man

by Vanessa Hsia

An illustration of seven different illustrations of the same woman through different stages in her life, in a color gradient of reds and burgundies. They are all looking down at a semi circle underneath them, where tiny children toddle around.
Labor

The Babysitters Club

by Lacy Warner

A woman in a colorful patterned sari, rich with bright oranges and blues and golds. She is holding vegetables she has grown on her farm, and is surrounded by bright greenery.
Work

A Farm of One’s Own

by Aliya Bashir

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