The Argentine Grandmothers Who Resisted the Junta The Argentine Grandmothers Who Resisted the Junta
Haley Cohen Gilliland’s A Flower Traveled in My Blood looks at the efforts of a human rights group to find the children and grandchildren who were disappeared by a dictatorship.
Jul 24, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jacob Sugarman
How Climate Justice Reached the UN’s Top Court—and Won How Climate Justice Reached the UN’s Top Court—and Won
The International Court of Justice’s ruling that countries have a legal duty to curb climate change was the result of a yearslong campaign that began with university students.
Jul 23, 2025 / Panthea Lee
We’re Still Living With the Decisions Made During the Trinity Tests We’re Still Living With the Decisions Made During the Trinity Tests
Eighty years after the first atomic weapons tests at Los Alamos, humanity has yet to fully reckon with the power of mass annihilation.
Jul 23, 2025 / Eric Ross
Iranian Brickwork Shows Us Better Architecture Is Possible Iranian Brickwork Shows Us Better Architecture Is Possible
Why the beauty and inventiveness of contemporary masonry in Iran has captured Western audiences.
Jul 23, 2025 / Kate Wagner
Trump World Will Never Allow Justice for Breonna Taylor Trump World Will Never Allow Justice for Breonna Taylor
The sentencing of police officer Brett Hankison to 33 months in prison by a Trump-appointed judge is a travesty—even if it’s better than the DOJ’s request for one day.
Jul 23, 2025 / Elie Mystal
Want to Understand Global Inequality? Visit the Dump. Want to Understand Global Inequality? Visit the Dump.
Alexander Clapp’s Waste Wars, a world-spanning inquiry into the politics of garbage, makes a case that everything that is wrong with capitalism is embodied in our trash.
Jul 23, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Carol Schaeffer
Republicans Would Rather Shut Down Congress Than Discuss the Epstein Files Republicans Would Rather Shut Down Congress Than Discuss the Epstein Files
The lesson for Democrats is that they should force confrontations, especially when they drive a wedge into the GOP base.
Jul 22, 2025 / Chris Lehmann
Bloody Line in the Sand Bloody Line in the Sand
Netanyahu’s Gaza horror show marches on.
Jul 22, 2025 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards
Amid Epstein Chaos, Trump Turns to Football to Distract and Dehumanize Amid Epstein Chaos, Trump Turns to Football to Distract and Dehumanize
Trump is calling for the Washington Commanders to change their name back to a racial slur.
Jul 22, 2025 / Dave Zirin