Self-Portrait as a Shadow Self-Portrait as a Shadow
for V. Lamar Word is I wasn’t born so much as skimmed off another living thing by a source of light. Let’s just say that you are light-skinned and the back of my mom’s hand is a co…
Nov 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Cortney Lamar Charleston
Puzzle No. 3482 Puzzle No. 3482
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Going back and forth sick during time off (11) 7 and 27 Criticize crack in closet (6) 9 One interrupting Presiden…
Nov 8, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Rereading Alinsky in Baltimore Rereading Alinsky in Baltimore
Why broad-based organizing still matters in an age of hashtag activism.
Nov 8, 2018 / Nick Bowlin
Chronicle of Deaths Foretold Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
Trump’s hateful rhetoric encourages mass violence.
Nov 8, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman
When Environmentalism Meets Xenophobia When Environmentalism Meets Xenophobia
The conservative conservation movement’s dark history of racism and eugenics.
Nov 8, 2018 / Feature / Gaby Del Valle
Blue Wave by Any Measure Blue Wave by Any Measure
Given all the Republican voter suppression, winning Congress was a landslide.
Nov 8, 2018 / OppArt / India Tresselt
The Fate of the Earth Depends on Women The Fate of the Earth Depends on Women
How a feminist foreign policy can save us from nuclear weapons.
Nov 8, 2018 / Feature / Beatrice Fihn
Together We Shall Save Our Planet: A Q&A With Beatrice Fihn Together We Shall Save Our Planet: A Q&A With Beatrice Fihn
The executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons explains the movement to ban the bomb.
Nov 8, 2018 / Q&A / Eric Schlosser
When the World Tried to Outlaw War When the World Tried to Outlaw War
What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?
Nov 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Wertheim
The Plague of Pointless Work The Plague of Pointless Work
In his new book, David Graeber examines the decoupling of work from meaningful activity.
Nov 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Michael Robbins