How the Justice Department Can Help Solve the Opioid Crisis How the Justice Department Can Help Solve the Opioid Crisis
Instead of criminalizing drug use, the Department of Justice should do these three things.
Dec 18, 2017 / Megan McLemore
What’s Going to Save Journalism? What’s Going to Save Journalism?
Killing net neutrality, which the Republican-controlled FCC voted to do yesterday, is only the most recent gut punch to a free press.
Dec 15, 2017 / Leslie Savan
Lil Peep’s Optimist Love Songs Lil Peep’s Optimist Love Songs
Gustav Åhr was emo-rap’s most visible representative and the genre’s most mainstream success, but what set his music apart was not its despair but its deep sense of hope.
Dec 15, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
These Pharmaceutical Companies Are Making a Killing Off the Opioid Crisis These Pharmaceutical Companies Are Making a Killing Off the Opioid Crisis
Why do the manufacturers of naloxone, the life-saving overdose antidote, keep hiking the price?
Dec 15, 2017 / Daniel Denvir
How Should I Deal With My 11-Year-Old Daughter Who Wants to Dress Slutty? How Should I Deal With My 11-Year-Old Daughter Who Wants to Dress Slutty?
Another reader asks what Jesus would do about a creepy guy at church.
Dec 15, 2017 / Liza Featherstone
Gutting Net Neutrality Is the Trump Administration’s Most Brutal Blow to Democracy Yet Gutting Net Neutrality Is the Trump Administration’s Most Brutal Blow to Democracy Yet
This cannot be the end of a free and open Internet. Activists must fight on in the courts, in Congress, and in the streets.
Dec 14, 2017 / John Nichols
Charles Barkley’s Politics Demand Criticism Charles Barkley’s Politics Demand Criticism
The NBA legend speaks beautifully about class, but when it comes to race, his views leave much to be desired.
Dec 14, 2017 / Dave Zirin
Under Trump, the Private-Prison Boom Shows No Sign of Slowing Under Trump, the Private-Prison Boom Shows No Sign of Slowing
A conversation with Lauren-Brooke Eisen on her new book on private prisons and the long shadow of mass incarceration.
Dec 14, 2017 / John Washington
Savor This Victory: Doug Jones Is Taking Jeff Sessions’s Old Seat Savor This Victory: Doug Jones Is Taking Jeff Sessions’s Old Seat
Howell Raines on Alabama, Joan Walsh on #MeToo after Al Franken, and John Nichols on Net Neutrality.
Dec 14, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
The Media Must Stop Normalizing Nazis The Media Must Stop Normalizing Nazis
When one side is fascist, there’s no reason to show “both sides.”
Dec 13, 2017 / Column / Eric Alterman