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Courtney Martin
Feb 15, 2026
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  1. You don’t want to miss my friend Nicki’s unbelievably fresh and touching and devastating essay in her newsletter, Mother Tongue: “I would argue that this war on belonging is like an autoimmune disease in the body politic, attacking what in fact would make us well: our capacity to care for each other, across difference. Our capacity to expand: to make an open hand, a…

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