Ad Policy

White-Collar Unionization Is Good for Everybody

Some have argued that it creates a class divide in labor—they’ve got it backward.

Alex Press

Racism and Discrimination

In the Legal System, Talking White Is a Precursor to Justice—and That’s Wrong

If the legal system keeps treating AAE as a lesser form of English, it can never claim to view black people with the same legitimacy as white people.

Jordana Rosenfeld
Social Justice

The Progressive Case for the Philadelphia Eagles (Seriously)

The Eagles are a living rebuke to anyone who thinks social consciousness is a distraction from winning or a repellent to fans.

Dave Zirin
Campaigns and Elections

Meet the Candidate Running to Fix Michigan’s Brutal Housing Policies

Abdul El-Sayed would be the first Muslim-American governor in US history.

David Dayen
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From the Magazine

Politics

Trump’s Xenophobic Vision of America Is Inciting Racist Violence

Attacks against Muslim, South Asian, Sikh, Hindu, Arab, and Middle Eastern communities in the US were up a staggering 45 percent in 2017.

Suman Raghunathan

The Power Behind the Throne Is ‘Fox & Friends’

With Bannon out of favor, is Fox morning-show host Steve Doocy now Trump’s top adviser?

Edward Burmila

The 4 Most Shocking Proposals in the White House Immigration Plan

Trump’s proposed DACA deal attacks bedrock principles of the immigration system.

Julianne Hing

world

A Progressive Reformist Is Leading Mexico’s Presidential Polls—and Washington Is Freaking Out

The rise of Andrés Manuel López Obrador has sparked hysterical fears of anti-US populism and claims of Russian “interference.”

John M. Ackerman

Showdown in Afrin: Turkey’s Attack on Syria’s Kurds Threatens That Country’s Most Democratic, Pluralist Force

The Kurds have said they will fight to the death before they give up an inch of Afrin.

Meredith Tax

Why There’s So Little Suspense Ahead of Russia’s March Presidential Elections

It’s widely assumed Putin will win. The real question is what will happen in six years, and whether the authoritarian system first established by Boris Yeltsin will persist.

Tony Wood

Culture

Weed Shall Overcome

No other TV series captures daily life in New York City quite like HBO’s High Maintenance.

Judy Berman

A Bell With a Distant Ring

There is much to learn from Yasunari Kawabata’s final novel, even as—especially as—it gives rise to more questions than answers.

Larissa Pham

Margins and the Mainstream at the New Museum’s ‘Trigger’

As something that confutes the distinction between fact and fiction, gender is fundamentally congruent with art and aesthetics.

Barry Schwabsky

Watch and Listen

Listen: Women Show How to Run—and Win—Against Trump’s GOP

John Nichols, plus Alfred McCoy on Fortress America, and the Rev. William Barber on white nationalism.

January 25, 2018

Listen: Aaron Maybin: From NFL Athlete to Baltimore Art Teacher

We speak to him about his own personal journey as well as issues of race, class, and education facing Baltimore.

January 23, 2018

View: The Borderlands’ Human Stain

Photographs that capture the traces of violence that have plagued the US-Mexico border for generations.

July 27, 2017

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