Elizabeth Warren: Congress Must Expand the Supreme Court Elizabeth Warren: Congress Must Expand the Supreme Court
The Massachusetts senator explains why the current court is a threat to democracy—and offers the latest on Build Back Better and voting rights.
Dec 16, 2021 / Joan Walsh
The Startling Postcolonial Poetics of “Coolitude” The Startling Postcolonial Poetics of “Coolitude”
Khal Thorabully’s epic poem “re-voices” the history of Indian indentured migration, and in the process imagines a new kind of transoceanic political solidarity.
Dec 16, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Aditya Bahl
This Is Life After the Dixie Fire This Is Life After the Dixie Fire
People in high places with money to share are not riding over the ridge to our rescue.
Dec 16, 2021 / Jane Braxton Little
The Bankers of the Round Table The Bankers of the Round Table
Over the centuries, the powers that be have tended to be less than shy about many aspects of their global domination.
Dec 15, 2021 / Olúfémi O. Táíwò
Portraits in Minneapolis Portraits in Minneapolis
A street-art celebration of diversity.
Striking Kellogg’s Workers Need the PRO Act Striking Kellogg’s Workers Need the PRO Act
The president issued a great statement in support of striking workers who are threatened with replacement. But corporations won’t respect workers’ rights until the Protecting the R...
Dec 15, 2021 / John Nichols
Why Should I Change the Way I Talk? Why Should I Change the Way I Talk?
By switching between the accent I was raised with and the accent I am expected to have, I am silencing a part of myself.
Dec 15, 2021 / StudentNation / Meagan Zullo
Texas Is Winnable. Beto’s the Candidate to Do It. Texas Is Winnable. Beto’s the Candidate to Do It.
Dec 15, 2021 / Steve Phillips
There’s Always More Money for the Pentagon There’s Always More Money for the Pentagon
Meanwhile, we’re told to do more with less.
Dec 15, 2021 / William Astore
The Last Days of the Beatles The Last Days of the Beatles
Does Peter Jackson’s eight-hour documentary give us the fullest picture of the band’s late history?
Dec 15, 2021 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu