Megan Rapinoe Is Right to Not Sing the Anthem
Megan Rapinoe won’t kneel for the anthem any longer. Now the right wants her to sing it as well.
Dave ZirinCampaigns and Elections
Is Andrew Yang Serious or Kidding? It’s Dangerous Either Way.
Blurring the lines between sincerity and irony in a presidential campaign is hazardous when the consequences are so real.
Edward BurmilaGovernment
So Long, Sarah Sanders
You can go lie for free, not on the taxpayer’s dime anymore.
Joan WalshClimate Change
Why Should I Embrace This Abomination of a Future?
Another reader asks about his “so-called” Christian sister.
Liza FeatherstonePolitics
Elizabeth Warren Is Proving Her Doubters Wrong
The presidential race is better with her in it.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Why Is Trump Assaulting Americans’ Freedom to Travel to Cuba?
He’s trolling for votes in Florida at the expense of our constitutional rights and economic support for the Cuban people.
Peter Kornbluh
When Joe Biden Collaborated With Segregationists
The candidate’s years as an anti-busing crusader cannot be forgotten—or readily forgiven.
Jonathan KozolLatest from the nation
June 14, 2019 Election 2020
The First Democratic Debates Shape Up as Unfair and Unfocused Spectacles
There are better ways to organize big multi-candidate debates. Going forward, Democrats ought to consider them.
John Nichols
June 14, 2019 War on Terror
Two Young Iraqi Activists Insist on Peace
June 13, 2019
Guardians of Civilization
June 13, 2019 Media Analysis
Trump and Bibi Are Evil Twinsies
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Trump May Not Want War With Iran—but the Coalition of the Killing May Give Him One
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Jenny Odell and the Quest to Log Off
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The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz
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world
The World’s Dismal Convergence on Press Freedom
Western reporters used to be markedly freer than their colleagues in the Arab world. Can they still claim that privilege?
Thanassis Cambanis
The European Left’s Dangerous Anti-Immigrant Turn
In Denmark, the center left returned to power only by lurching to the right on immigration.
Karina Piser
In the Philippines, a Youth Movement Stands Between Duterte and Dictatorship
Duterte will take control of Congress, but his quest for more power must be stopped.
Noah Flora
culture
A Peek Into a Future When the Border Wall Is Built and the 1 Percent Get Away With More Than Just Murder
Fernando A. Flores’s debut novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, is unlike any border story you’ve read before.
Joshua Rivera
Vasily Grossman in War and Peace
In both his life and his writing, the novelist and journalist captured the complications and contradictions of the Soviet century.
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five Film Captures Every Injustice in Vivid Detail
When They See Us, Ava DuVernay’s four-part dramatization of the story, goes farther than any of her previous work.
Stuart KlawansNation Voices
Watch and Listen
Listen: Rashida Tlaib: There’s a ‘Real Human Impact of Doing Nothing’
This week on Next Left, the outspoken representative who is holding Trump accountable.
June 11, 2019
Listen: How the World of Sports Is Responding to the Murder of Canadian Indigenous Women
Tracie Leost joins the show to talk about indigenous rights and the power of sports.
June 11, 2019
View: PHOTOS: ‘I Haven’t Met Anybody in the Area Who Actually Wants to Take the Walls Down’
Belfast’s so-called “peace lines” were supposed to come down over a decade ago. Why are they still there?
June 5, 2019
special investigation
Force-Feeding Is Cruel, Painful, and Degrading—and American Prisons Won’t Stop
In a Colorado supermax facility, hunger-striking inmates have been force-fed and barred from sharing their ordeal with the outside world. A prisoner breaks his silence for the first time.
Aviva StahlIt was November 11, 2015, and Mohammad Salameh hadn’t eaten in 34 days. The morning was stretching toward noon, and he was lying on a concrete platform that served as his bed when a team of guards dressed in riot gear appeared at his cell door and ordered him to… Continue Reading >
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