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Author Olivier Alexandre on writing “a slow study of a fast-moving industry” and the future of Silicon Valley.

Author Carlo Rotella explains how a simple approach led two silent students to gain the confidence to speak up in class.

Susan Bibler Coutin writes about lawfully protecting immigrants in an inhospitable environment.

Hagiography Society Article Prize-winner Dina Boero tells us about “stylites,” Christian saints who lived for years and even decades on top of columns.

Learn more about UC Press's new journal, "Music and Data," from the journal's editors.

How the landscape of debt in the United States has shifted significantly.

Authors Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa Mares on why there can be no quality or sustainable food for consumers if frontline immigrant workers are not treated with dignity and justice.

Who speaks out against fascism—is it only the most powerful or politically connected who can do so, or is it those whose rights are most in danger?

"Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture" author Lucy O'Sullivan answers questions about her ALAA-acknowledged article on "Martyrdom in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."