The Tents of Venice Beach The Tents of Venice Beach
This summer, thanks in part to the spread of Airbnb properties, one of Los Angeles's most expensive neighborhoods filled up with tents housing displaced locals.
Aug 9, 2021 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
The Anti-Asian Roots of Today’s Anti-Immigrant Politics The Anti-Asian Roots of Today’s Anti-Immigrant Politics
Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.
Aug 9, 2021 / Feature / Mari Uyehara
As the US Leaves Afghanistan, Anti-War Feminists Push a New Approach to Foreign Policy As the US Leaves Afghanistan, Anti-War Feminists Push a New Approach to Foreign Policy
There are signs that the Biden administration and mainstream foreign policy groups may be ready to listen, if not embrace a full paradigm shift.
Aug 9, 2021 / Shreya Chattopadhyay
Unions Are the Heart of Arizona’s Political Change Unions Are the Heart of Arizona’s Political Change
The historically red state’s GOP is attacking organized labor, but labor is fighting back and turning Arizona blue.
Aug 6, 2021 / C.M. Lewis
Scorched Earth Scorched Earth
Orban blight. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of August 2.
Aug 6, 2021 / Steve Brodner
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The tenuous cease-fire. The terrible history.
Aug 6, 2021 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards
The Grim Legacy That Edwin Edwards’s Obit Writers Left Out The Grim Legacy That Edwin Edwards’s Obit Writers Left Out
The four-time Louisiana governor is instead remembered for having said that he’d lose his election if he were “caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.”
Aug 6, 2021 / Jason Berry
America Faces Cascading Crises. Democrats Must Act. America Faces Cascading Crises. Democrats Must Act.
Any serious effort to alleviate the real problems facing Americans will depend on progressives’ corralling Democratic unity.
Aug 5, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Vaxing and Waning Vaxing and Waning
Now you tell me!
Aug 5, 2021 / OppArt / Ann Telnaes, Clay Bennett, and Rob Rogers
Death by Disinformation: GOP Accomplices to Covid Apocalypse Death by Disinformation: GOP Accomplices to Covid Apocalypse
If your state or city remains unvaccinated, and your neighbors won’t wear masks indoors—you’ve got a problem.
Aug 5, 2021 / Gregg Gonsalves for The Nation