‘They Had Found Out That I Am Gay, and They Were Going to Kill Me’ ‘They Had Found Out That I Am Gay, and They Were Going to Kill Me’
The Nigerian asylee running New York City’s only homeless shelter for refugees.
Mar 27, 2019 / John Washington
Berlin’s Radical Housing Activists Aren’t Afraid of Expropriations Berlin’s Radical Housing Activists Aren’t Afraid of Expropriations
Germany’s hippest city is debating whether to seize 200,000 homes from landlords and turn them into social housing.
Mar 27, 2019 / Lukas Hermsmeier
Climate Change Is Already Reshaping How We Farm Climate Change Is Already Reshaping How We Farm
After years of struggling through summer heat and wildfire smoke, farmers in Washington are building their own, cooperatively run, future.
Mar 27, 2019 / Audrea Lim
New Jersey Is Addicted to ICE New Jersey Is Addicted to ICE
North Jersey is a Democratic stronghold. Why is it complicit with Trump’s deportation machine?
Mar 26, 2019 / Whitney Strub
What I Saw at the Dilley, Texas, Immigrant Detention Center What I Saw at the Dilley, Texas, Immigrant Detention Center
The stories I heard from the women and children trapped in Trump’s willfully cruel immigration system will stay with me forever.
Mar 26, 2019 / Feature / Martin Garbus
The Road to Climate Catastrophe Runs Through a City Called Commerce The Road to Climate Catastrophe Runs Through a City Called Commerce
But, if we listen carefully, the solutions to the climate crisis also come from Commerce.
Mar 26, 2019 / Ben Ehrenreich
Trump’s Global Gag Rule Is Making It Harder to Fight the AIDS Crisis Trump’s Global Gag Rule Is Making It Harder to Fight the AIDS Crisis
The Trump administration says it is leading the global fight against HIV and AIDS—and then shoots itself in the foot.
Mar 25, 2019 / Michelle Chen
‘Loyal Slave’ Monuments Tell a Racist Lie About American History ‘Loyal Slave’ Monuments Tell a Racist Lie About American History
These monuments—nearly all of them still standing—prop up the fantasy that slaves were happy, loyal, and devoted to those who enslaved them.
Mar 25, 2019 / Kali Holloway
The Admissions Scandal Is About Parental Narcissism—and the Schools’ Complicity The Admissions Scandal Is About Parental Narcissism—and the Schools’ Complicity
This is what college looks like for entitled parents who don’t care about education, and whose children don’t care either.
Mar 21, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Letters From the April 8, 2019, Issue Letters From the April 8, 2019, Issue
A question for “The Blob”… Generation climate strike… Endgame…
Mar 21, 2019 / Our Readers