Politics

The Tents of Venice Beach

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

Chinese miners in California, c. 1862

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

Students at a girls’ school in Kabul

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 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 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 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The tenuous cease-fire. The terrible history.

Aug 6, 2021 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards

Edwin Edwards

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

Press Secretary Psaki Briefs White House Media

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 Vaxing and Waning

Now you tell me!

Aug 5, 2021 / OppArt / Ann Telnaes, Clay Bennett, and Rob Rogers

Nurses hold a memorial in Washington DC.

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

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