The Ten Best Albums of 2016 The Ten Best Albums of 2016
As the business of recorded music roils, the making of music rolls on.
Dec 14, 2016 / David Hajdu
American Radicals and the Change We Could Believe In American Radicals and the Change We Could Believe In
The Obama era reminded us all that popular movements play an essential role as catalysts for political action.
Dec 14, 2016 / Feature / Eric Foner
This Is What Could Happen to Reproductive Rights Under the Trump Administration This Is What Could Happen to Reproductive Rights Under the Trump Administration
It’s going to be ugly.
Dec 14, 2016 / Rebecca Grant
What Happens When Zika Hits the Country With the World’s Strictest Abortion Laws? What Happens When Zika Hits the Country With the World’s Strictest Abortion Laws?
Abortion is illegal in El Salvador—even in the midst of a public health crisis. But some feminists and doctors are fighting back.
Dec 14, 2016 / Madeleine Schwartz
The Mysterious Magnetism of Michelle Obama The Mysterious Magnetism of Michelle Obama
How did the first lady, a model of intelligence and grace, manage to keep her composure?
Dec 14, 2016 / Feature / Adrienne Kennedy
Michelle Obama, Between Respectability and Radicalism Michelle Obama, Between Respectability and Radicalism
While we took pride in the first lady, activists changed what she could do.
Dec 14, 2016 / Feature / Joelle Gamble
We Are Hitting the Wall of Maximum Grabbing We Are Hitting the Wall of Maximum Grabbing
We have an epidemic of grabbing—land grabbing, resource grabbing—and now the most powerful nation on earth has elected Donald Trump as its grabber-in-chief.
Dec 14, 2016 / Naomi Klein
Washington’s Plans for Asia Just Hit a Roadblock—Trump Washington’s Plans for Asia Just Hit a Roadblock—Trump
The president-elect could easily unravel decades of carefully laid plans for an American-dominated Pacific.
Dec 13, 2016 / Tim Shorrock
Trumpism Poses the Most Dire Threat to Academic Freedom in Recent Memory Trumpism Poses the Most Dire Threat to Academic Freedom in Recent Memory
A shadowy new Professor Watchlist has revived the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s. We must fight back.
Dec 13, 2016 / Erik Loomis
Tell the Senate to Block Trump’s Cabinet of Hate and Wall Street Greed Tell the Senate to Block Trump’s Cabinet of Hate and Wall Street Greed
President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments have been horrifying.
Dec 13, 2016 / NationAction