Immigrants Are Dying In Detention While ICE Ignores Its Own Medical Standards Immigrants Are Dying In Detention While ICE Ignores Its Own Medical Standards
A new report demonstrates how medical negligence played a significant role in many detention center deaths.
Apr 25, 2016 / Raul Grijalva
30 Years After the Chernobyl Meltdown, Why Is the Ukrainian Government Pushing Nuclear Energy? 30 Years After the Chernobyl Meltdown, Why Is the Ukrainian Government Pushing Nuclear Energy?
Or, how Ukraine learned to stop worrying and love its nuclear power plants.
Apr 25, 2016 / Dusty Christensen
After New York’s Disastrous Primary, It’s Time to Demand Better Voting Laws After New York’s Disastrous Primary, It’s Time to Demand Better Voting Laws
During this year’s presidential primary, New Yorkers across the state discovered something that voting rights advocates have been saying for years: New York’s elections are a mess.
Apr 23, 2016 / NationAction
The Prince of Sex The Prince of Sex
When Reagan was president, and sex was death, it was a Prince song that turned me inside out.
Apr 21, 2016 / Richard Kim
North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law Is Not the Way to Keep Women Safe North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law Is Not the Way to Keep Women Safe
The threats to women’s safety are posed by men, not trans women. So why should trans women suffer for those sins?
Apr 21, 2016 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The EU Is Now Criminalizing Refugees The EU Is Now Criminalizing Refugees
The move to detention rather than welcome has led to a rapid downward spiral in conditions.
Apr 20, 2016 / Lydia Wilson
There Goes the Neighborhood, Episode 7: When You Go to School With Gentrifiers There Goes the Neighborhood, Episode 7: When You Go to School With Gentrifiers
14-year-old Corrine Bobb-Semple has lived in Bed-Stuy her whole life. Her classmates haven’t.
Apr 20, 2016 / Podcast / There Goes the Neighborhood and Kai Wright
What Really Stands in the Way of Closing Guantánamo What Really Stands in the Way of Closing Guantánamo
On his first day in the Oval Office, Obama swore he’d close Gitmo. He’s got nine months left to do it.
Apr 19, 2016 / Karen J. Greenberg
Why Sanders Skipped Clooney and Visited the Vatican Why Sanders Skipped Clooney and Visited the Vatican
Sanders’s hope for a moral economy is amplified at the Vatican.
Apr 19, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Most Important Protest of the 2016 Election The Most Important Protest of the 2016 Election
1,400 activists have been arrested at Democracy Awakening and Democracy Spring, but few in the media have covered it.
Apr 18, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter and Ari Berman