Salvos

6 Except for the Miracles

Liberation as the Fine Art of Losing Olúfémi Táíwò 16 The Long Brutality Black women and the struggle

to end police violence Keisha N. Blain

36 When the Party’s Over Organizing after Bernie Brendan O’Connor

52 Free and Worldly Louis Menand’s questionable pantheon

of Cold War–era luminaries George Scialabba

62 Freedom on the Line

Punjabi fishing communities struggle inside the nets of bonded labor Alizeh Kohari

74 Free as in Fred

The afterlife of a Chicagoland Revolutionary Simon Balto

86 Sorrow, Tears, and Blood In Nigeria, a long history of police

brutality and sectional tension Adewale Maja-Pearce

104 Who Cares? Before Covid-19, American women

were already in crisis Sarah Jaffe

Outbursts

96 Lose Your Self to Dance

American ballet, and its labor practices, at the breaking point Britt Stigler

128 Miraculous Feelings

The varieties of literary obsession William Giraldi

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