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Suburbia
February 27, 2024
MagazineClaire Potter
The Suburbs Made the War on Drugs in Their Own Image
Matthew Lassiter’s history plays out in ranch houses, high school parking lots, and courtrooms from Shaker Heights to Westchester to Orange County.
September 23, 2020
PodcastThe Politics of Everything
The Strangely Persistent Myth of the Suburbs
Democrats and Republicans have suburbia all wrong. How might their outdated ideas hurt them?
September 2, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Suburbs Are Still Hell
Two new books by Jason Diamond and Eula Biss expose the fraught moral dilemmas of living in the ’burbs.
March 3, 2015
Jeff Hardwick
The Mall Is Dead. Americans Shop at "Lifestyle Centers" Now.

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