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The campus is the main battleground of America’s free-speech wars – so Lux is hitting the road for our first college campus tour. We believe everyone has the right to learn, and if the university won’t offer an honest education we will.
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Are you subscribed to Lux for Life, our free newsletter? This week's edition, Jordan Taliha McDonald considers Paul Thomas Anderson's version of Perfidia Beverly Hills alongside other representations of Black women negotiating revolution and betrayal. Just in time for #TheOscars
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Since the fall of 2024, the so-called ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel has meant relative peace and safety for residents of the capital, Beirut. But in the south, Lylla Younes writes, “residents encountered a vastly different reality” where “Israeli drones raked the skies"
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This week, the false peace was broken, and the IOF has launched a bombing campaign that has killed at least 120 people. What Younes reports in this story sheds light on the devastating assault, and what may come after it. Early from Issue 16 👁️ lux-magazine.com/article/leb…
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Letter to the editor in the local paper is expressing almost exactly the attitude that @readlux skewered in their "Who Goes Fascist?" lol, amazing
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*~ READ IT ONLINE NOW *~ "Enshittification endows the oldest capitalist impulses with the shiniest twenty-first-century tools." For Issue 15, Michelle Santiago Cortés reviews Joana Walsh and Cory Doctorow's books about our dead internet
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*~ READ IT ONLINE NOW *~ For Issue 15, Danielle Mackey reviews Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's National Book Award winner "We are Greennajd Trembling", which reimagines the Spanish conquest of the Americas and lets the jungle win. lux-magazine.com/article/gre…
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*~ OUT NOW ~* For Issue 15, Jeanelle K. Hope gives a history of how black feminists have always fought fascism, and what lessons we can take forward today from our last. Subscribe now to read it online, or get the issue in print on our website ✨
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*~ OUT NOW ~* "These women are called the “angel moms,” and they claim that their children were killed by undocumented immigrants." For Issue 15, Katya Schwenk writes about the women who turn their tragedies into propaganda for ICE Read it online, or get the issue in print
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For Issue 15, the Lux editors and our friends guess which people are gonna fold and enthusiastically lick ICE boots, and which people won't ever go fash. Tag yourself 👀 Subscribe to read it online, or get the issue in print on our website. ✨ Art by @mollycrabapple
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I'll be doing this today!!! Come drink some wine and talk
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Get a little preview of the book by coming out to our talk tomorrow with Alyssa in Brooklyn!
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19 Aug 2025
Get a little preview of the book by coming out to our talk tomorrow with Alyssa in Brooklyn!
Free Gifts is officially out today!!
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