The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Holding Up the Democratic Agenda The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Holding Up the Democratic Agenda
Party leaders are caving to corporate pressure and ceding ground on an already dangerously low budget proposal.
Oct 14, 2021 / Aída Chávez
The Changing Hymn (Allegory of the Singing Lover) The Changing Hymn (Allegory of the Singing Lover)
For Mary Rose During the Trouble Years my love sang the same song every day but every day she’d change—slightly—the words One day she sang a song for sweepers and the next day the…
Oct 14, 2021 / Poems / Patrick Rosal
How America Learned to Outsource Its Dirtiest Work to the Least Powerful How America Learned to Outsource Its Dirtiest Work to the Least Powerful
A conversation with author Eyal Press about the men and women who do this country’s most maligned jobs and the psychic toll it takes on them.
Oct 14, 2021 / Q&A / Jasmine Liu
Democrats Are Ready to Abandon Black Voters, Again Democrats Are Ready to Abandon Black Voters, Again
The data scientist David Shor is urging Democrats to dump their racial justice message if they want to maintain any power. That’s a terrible idea.
Oct 13, 2021 / Elie Mystal
George Floyd, Born This Day in 1973 George Floyd, Born This Day in 1973
Memorials created after his murder by police in 2020.
Breaking Glass: Curriculum “Diversity” and Its Discontents Breaking Glass: Curriculum “Diversity” and Its Discontents
On teaching literature and the limits of representation.
Oct 13, 2021 / Column / Diana Senechal
Primary Kyrsten Sinema Primary Kyrsten Sinema
She’s actively alienating the very voters that make up the coalition that elected her.
Oct 13, 2021 / Steve Phillips
The Unsure State of Asian America The Unsure State of Asian America
A conversation with Jay Caspian Kang about how the term “Asian American” became “mostly meaningless.”
Oct 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho
I Lived Through the US Military’s Culture of Surveillance I Lived Through the US Military’s Culture of Surveillance
As a military spouse, I’ve been threatened, silenced, monitored, and shamed by the very people my husband fought alongside.
Oct 13, 2021 / Andrea Mazzarino
Extreme Inequality Fuels the Rigged World Economy Shown in the Pandora Papers Extreme Inequality Fuels the Rigged World Economy Shown in the Pandora Papers
The United States now rivals the Cayman Islands and European protectorates as an international tax haven.
Oct 12, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel