Welcome to ‘Bitch Planet’, the Feminist Sci-Fi Comic You’ve Been Waiting For Welcome to ‘Bitch Planet’, the Feminist Sci-Fi Comic You’ve Been Waiting For
In Kelly Sue Deconnick’s newest series, Earth is run by white males who carry the title of “Father” and women deemed “non-compliant” are shipped off the planet. But these women are...
Sep 9, 2015 / Loren A. Lynch
Yemen, the World’s Next Great Refugee Crisis Yemen, the World’s Next Great Refugee Crisis
As the civil war heats up amid intervention by the Gulf monarchies, thousands are fleeing every day.
Sep 9, 2015 / Juan Cole
Europe’s Refugee Crisis Was Made in America Europe’s Refugee Crisis Was Made in America
Washington helped create the conditions with its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sep 9, 2015 / The Editors
Tennessee Higher Education Talks Big, Acts Cheap Tennessee Higher Education Talks Big, Acts Cheap
Statewide austerity measures leave campus workers doing more work for less pay.
Sep 9, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Has Russia Been Right All Along About the ‘Arab Spring’? Has Russia Been Right All Along About the ‘Arab Spring’?
If so, why is Washington opposed to Moscow’s help in the war against ISIS?
Sep 9, 2015 / Stephen F. Cohen
September 9, 1971: Attica! September 9, 1971: Attica!
“When men who have nothing discover that they have one another, they combine into units that are incalculably formidable.”
Sep 9, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Washington’s Football Team Is the Donald Trump of the NFL Washington’s Football Team Is the Donald Trump of the NFL
The Washington football franchise is trying to build a fan base the same way Donald Trump is constructing his electoral campaign: by appealing to white anxiety.
Sep 9, 2015 / Dave Zirin
How Pope Francis Is Reviving Radical Catholic Economics How Pope Francis Is Reviving Radical Catholic Economics
Some Catholics have been quietly practicing them all along.
Sep 9, 2015 / Feature / Nathan Schneider
If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate Change, He’d Be a Feminist If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate Change, He’d Be a Feminist
The world will never be healed of its ecological ills as long as women cannot control their fertility.
Sep 9, 2015 / Feature / Katha Pollitt
How Pope Francis Came to Embrace Not Just Climate Justice but Liberation Theology How Pope Francis Came to Embrace Not Just Climate Justice but Liberation Theology
And how that poses a radical challenge to both climate deniers and mainstream liberals.
Sep 9, 2015 / Feature / Wen Stephenson