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The Virus That Stole Christmas

There are ways to minimize risk for the holidays, but they will take some planning.

Gregg Gonsalves

Racism and Discrimination

Claudia Rankine Wants Us to Talk

A conversation with the writer about her new book, Just Us, which is a close reading of the language and affects that go into our understanding of race.

Nawal Arjini
Supreme Court

Expand the Court!

Elie Mystal on Supreme Court packing, plus Sonia Shah on climate disasters.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Politics

Trump Wants Another ‘Bush v. Gore’

The rush to fill the Supreme Court seat is motivated in part by a desire to turn over the election result to the judiciary.

Jeet Heer
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Politics

Democrats Can’t Take Any Option Off the Table

The tendency to pretend the old norms still prevail is part of what’s gotten the nation to this awful crisis.

Joan Walsh

Mitch McConnell Defends His Turf

Can a political newcomer unseat Kentucky’s most aggressive campaigner?

Bob Moser

There Is Only One Way Out of This Crisis: Expand the Court

Expanding the Supreme Court may not be easy, but it’s the only constitutional way to address the Republicans’ cynical theft of at least two seats.

Elie Mystal

Climate Election 2020

These Races Will Shape What the US Elections Mean for Climate Progress

The people have marched, and now it’s time to vote.

Mark Hertsgaard

The Media’s Climate Coverage Is Improving, but Time Is Very Short

Climate change is a top issue for voters. With the election just six weeks away, the media owes it to the electorate to be talking this emergency.

Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

Vote as if the Climate and the Future of Humanity Depend on It—Because They Do

Captain Trump wants to steer us straight onto the rocks. This election is humanity’s last shot to prevent utter climate catastrophe.

Bill McKibben

Culture

The Perils of Creativity and Capitalism in ‘Tesla’

Michael Almereyda’s biopic of the eccentric inventor is a portrait of the the tensions that arise when art and commerce intersect.

Vikram Murthi

The Inner Lives of the Accused in Emma Cline’s ‘Daddy’

Her new story collection is of apiece with the writer’s interest in the minds of the guilty, the complicit, and the canceled.

Lizzy Harding

Orlando Patterson and the Postcolonial Predicament

Out of the ruins of colonialism and empire, the sociologist insisted we could fashion a more egalitarian and liberated future.

Adom Getachew

Breonna Taylor

Breonna Taylor Was Murdered for Sleeping While Black

The circumstances of Taylor’s murder by cops, who barged into her home late at night, are shocking. They are also common.

Elie Mystal

Tributes to Breonna Taylor Around the Country

Andrea Arroyo, Maria Estela Mendoza, Rosa Logan, Lydia Cardwell, Lily Salska McNeil, Ashley Sadler and Jerome Peel

Andrea Arroyo

Black Lives Matter, Tribute to Breonna Taylor

On March 13, Breonna Taylor was  murdered in her own home by Louisville, Ky., police officers. Read the article.

Andrea Arroyo, Steve Brodner and Peter Kuper

World

Refugees Face Fire and Terror in Greece

Burned out of their homes, they now confront tear gas from police, beatings by fascists, and threats of imprisonment by the government.

Jesse Rosenfeld

The Incantatory Power of Ayad Akhtar and Shahzia Sikander

The two artistic geniuses—a novelist and a visual artist—discuss US politics, Islamophobia, and their recent work.

Ayad Akhtar and Shahzia Sikander

Mexico’s Women Demand Justice on Gender Violence

Enraged at institutional failure to address the mounting crisis, they have occupied the National Human Rights Commission.

Meaghan Beatley

Watch and Listen

View: Jails Are Designed to Keep Inmates Hidden

A photographic record of the Tombs, one of New York City’s most notorious detention complexes.

September 16, 2020

Listen: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf on This Moment of Sports and Struggle

A discussion between Abdul-Rauf, Felicia Eaves, and yours truly.

September 15, 2020

View: Tear Down the Monuments, Bring Our Cities to Life

In Richmond, the sites of former monuments to the Confederacy have become lively spaces for activism and memorializing those lost to police violence.

July 13, 2020
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