In the January + February 2024 issue of our magazine, we investigate the rise of American Oligarchy—and what it means for the rest of us. You can read all the pieces here .

Today, the birth of trap music and the rise of Southern rap. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SUMMERS: In 2001, a young rapper from the Bankhead neighborhood of Atlanta released his debut album.

As Matthew Shen Goodman puts it in a recent article on the rise of Asian American conservatives, “With anticommunists, merit obsessives, and law-and-order defenders, the tripartite structure of ...

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The Rise of the Brutal American. This is how the bad guys act. By Anne Applebaum. Brian Snyder / Reuters. March 5, 2025. Share. Save. Listen-1.0 x+ 0:00 7:16. Listen to more stories on the Noa app.

The rise of consolidation in the US health care system is not new. Beginning in the late 1990s, hospitals began rapidly consolidating and forming large, often multistate health systems; this is ...