Dismantling Bretton Woods to Pay the Climate Bill
Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending.
Tina GerhardtJails and Prisons
Desmond Meade on Why Love Is “the Most Powerful Word in the Universe”
The executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition was homeless, addicted to crack, and suicidal. Now, he has met the president, been one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, and won a MacArthur grant.
Karlos K. HillTransgender Rights
No One Can Take Away Our Joy
Across time and place, and amid grueling violence, trans people love and care for our own.
Chase StrangioActivism
Staughton Lynd’s Radicalism From Below
The historian and activist dedicated his life to showing how, and helping, working people not only imagine but build a better world.
Marcus RedikerCulture
The Malaise, Mess, and Art of Black Millennial Womanhood
Chantal V. Johnson’s debut novel typifies an emerging genre in fiction, one that interrogates the intimate and creative life of Black cosmopolitan women.
Marina Magloire
A Fragmentary History of California
Ashton Politanoff’s fascinating You’ll Like it Here, a hybrid book on the Golden State in the 20th century, looks at the novelistic details of everyday life.
Dustin Illingworth
Inside the Dreams of Ling Ma
The stories in her collection Bliss Montage tackle the troubles of the real world by transporting us to the realm between sleep and waking life.
Jennifer Schaffer-GoddardPolitics
Is the “U.S. News” Ranking System Finally Starting to Crumble?
While it’s tempting to view the decision by three elite law schools to pull out of the magazine’s rankings as little more than elite posturing, it could have real effects.
Elie Mystal
Why Democrats Lose When They Ignore the Native Vote
Indigenous organizers and activists say that the party can’t afford to overlook them any longer
Simon Moya-Smith
The Democrats Have a Crypto Problem
The high costs of taking money from Sam Bankman-Fried.
Jeet HeerWorld
Why My Organization Has Chosen to Defy Israeli Military Orders
Al-Haq was among seven civil society groups raided by Israel and ordered closed in August, but we do not believe in following illegal orders—and so we will remain open.
Shawan Jabarin
Why Did the US-China Relationship Collapse, and Can It Be Repaired?
Ending mindset of zero-sum conflict among elites in both countries is needed to address existential dangers.
Jake Werner
Watch and Listen
Listen: Is NFL Football a Blood Sport?
On this week’s episode of the Edge of Sports podcast, we speak to filmmaker Isaac Solotaroff to talk about his new film, Bloodsport.
November 22, 2022
Listen: Joan Walsh on the Georgia Runoff; Gustavo Arellano on the LA Vote
On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, discussions about the elections in Los Angeles and Georgia.
November 17, 2022
Listen: Abortion and the Election
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Moira Donegan talks about why American voters are energized for reproductive freedom.
November 16, 2022
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