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Read poems, learn poetic forms, and discover writers in this National Poetry Month roundup.

Scholars find Antifa groups are small, decentralized, and largely defensive, challenging common political and media portrayals.

From the Middle Ages to the Third Reich, carnival has served as a stage for protest and power.

Anida Yoeu Ali’s Red Chador challenges stereotypes of Muslim identity through performance art in highly visible public settings.

Twisting waters once blurred the boundary, but twentieth-century engineering turned the Rio Grande into a fixed, policed line.

In Chile and Argentina, satirical publications used humor to expose political crises overlooked by the mainstream press.

When silence allows harm to continue, warning others may become a difficult but necessary moral choice.

Be it with its curling tendrils or because of its desirable properties, the cucumber is defined by motion: vertical, horizontal, geographical, and digital.

Railroad photography helped sell an “empty” American West—carefully framing out the people already living there.

Telegraph cables let chess clubs stage matches across continents, linking players and spectators in a new kind of long-distance competition.