Dara Lee Luca (MPR), Emily Greene Owens (Cornell), and Gunjan Sharma (World Bank): Can Alcohol Prohibition Reduce Violence Against Women? Imani Gandy on how false narratives of Margaret Sanger are being used to shame black women. Scott McLemee reviews Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline by Dora Apel. Lost on the outlaw seas: Anoosh Chakelian on the dangerous treatment of staff on superyachts. Florida experts debunk the transgender “bathroom predator” myth. Great people in history have done horrible things — should we stop honoring them, and who gets to decide? Chris Lehmann on the warm amniotic lure of the Oval Office press tank. Renegade scientist Robert Trivers is lauded as one of our greatest thinkers — despite irking academia with blunt talk and bad manners. Allen Brown on why it’s scary that the Mall of America can crush dissent.
