Society

Putin Annual Address

Debasing US Policy Discourse About Russia Debasing US Policy Discourse About Russia

Is Putin really a “pariah” and Russia “isolated from the international community”?

May 30, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Dawuane Smoot

Dawuane Smoot and the Subterranean Fire in the NFL Dawuane Smoot and the Subterranean Fire in the NFL

A little-known player’s response to the NFL’s punitive anthem decision just shows how badly the league screwed this up.

May 30, 2018 / Dave Zirin

Roseanne Barr 2015 Tribeca Film Festival

Roseanne Tried to Use ‘Roseanne’ to Prove that Trump Voters Aren’t Racist. There Was Just 1 Problem. Roseanne Tried to Use ‘Roseanne’ to Prove that Trump Voters Aren’t Racist. There Was Just 1 Problem.

The media want to depict Trump supporters sympathetically, but the actual beliefs of many of them make that impossible.

May 30, 2018 / Ed Burmila

Hard to Swallow

Hard to Swallow Hard to Swallow

Contains zero calories, but leaves a bad moral after-taste.

May 30, 2018 / OppArt / Anthony Freda

Elderly inmates

By 2030, 1 in 3 US Prisoners Will Be Over 50 By 2030, 1 in 3 US Prisoners Will Be Over 50

The criminal-justice system is failing to deal with our aging prison population in a humane way.

May 29, 2018 / Michelle Chen

Hawa Tembe, 18 months, whose mother, Didi, in sunglasses, is from Mozambique, joins mothers and caregivers during news conference at the House Triangle to call on lawmakers to protect

Demand That the US Stop Separating Families at the Border Demand That the US Stop Separating Families at the Border

Hundreds of children have been taken from their parents. 

May 29, 2018 / NationAction

Claudia-Gomez-Gonzalez

Claudia Gómez González Wasn’t Killed by a Rogue Border Agent—She Was Killed by a Rogue Agency Claudia Gómez González Wasn’t Killed by a Rogue Border Agent—She Was Killed by a Rogue Agency

It is time to rein in Customs and Border Protection by demanding accountability and transparency.

May 29, 2018 / Daniel Altschuler and Natalia Aristizabal

Hagel speaks with Afghanistan troops

These Documents Reveal a Bizarre War Game Being Played by the Pentagon These Documents Reveal a Bizarre War Game Being Played by the Pentagon

It’s dystopian fiction—written by the US military.

May 29, 2018 / Nick Turse

Miami Dolphins

The NFL Anthem Mess: Putting Out a Fire With Kerosene The NFL Anthem Mess: Putting Out a Fire With Kerosene

Writer Bijan Bayne stops by to talk new NFL anthem policy.

May 29, 2018 / Podcast / Dave Zirin

immigrant detention women

ICE Is Sending a Message to the World’s Asylum Seekers: The US Is No Place of Refuge ICE Is Sending a Message to the World’s Asylum Seekers: The US Is No Place of Refuge

Separating children from their family members, imposing excessively long detention, and other ways the immigration bureaucracy is making life impossible for asylum seekers.

May 29, 2018 / John Washington

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