California Is Burning—and Trump Gathers Kindling California Is Burning—and Trump Gathers Kindling
No sympathy for those whose homes are threatened or firefighters risking their lives. Instead, he’s lobbed insults and stripped environmental protections.
Aug 21, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
How to Dismantle White Supremacy How to Dismantle White Supremacy
To end systemic racism, the country needs a comprehensive racial justice program even more sweeping than the Marshall Plan.
Aug 21, 2020 / Barbara Smith
Rite of Passage Rite of Passage
An operating room during the pandemic.
Aug 21, 2020 / OppArt / Glenn Ferguson
Can Joe Biden Unrig the Economy? Can Joe Biden Unrig the Economy?
Raising taxes on the rich would help stop the economy from simply channeling income to 1 percent.
Aug 21, 2020 / Mike Konczal
Will Public Schools Survive Covid-19? Will Public Schools Survive Covid-19?
Long-term divestment has put America’s public schools in a dangerous situation, pitting necessary education against the safety of students, staff, and parents.
Aug 21, 2020 / StudentNation / Belle Chesler
Biden Cannot Win (or Govern) as a Deficit Hawk Biden Cannot Win (or Govern) as a Deficit Hawk
Deficit hawk rhetoric and austerity economics will undermine the winning coalition Biden needs to build.
Aug 21, 2020 / John Nichols
Biden’s Grief Versus Trump’s Grievances Biden’s Grief Versus Trump’s Grievances
The two presidential candidates have very different approaches to loss.
Aug 21, 2020 / Jeet Heer
What Belarus Stands to Lose What Belarus Stands to Lose
Fixing the country’s broken democratic process can’t come at the cost of the inequality and corruption other former Soviet republics are now facing.
Aug 20, 2020 / Vadim Nikitin
The DNC Refuses to Address the Elephant in the Room The DNC Refuses to Address the Elephant in the Room
The Supreme Court will be lost for a generation if Biden loses, dooming almost all progressive policy ideas. But no Democrats are talking about it.
Aug 20, 2020 / Elie Mystal
Canceling Margaret Sanger Only Helps Abortion Opponents Canceling Margaret Sanger Only Helps Abortion Opponents
When Planned Parenthood took the name of the organization’s founder off its flagship clinic in Manhattan, they bought into anti-choice propaganda.
Aug 20, 2020 / Column / Katha Pollitt