Society

The Watergate Complex

June 17, 1972: The Watergate Scandal Begins, as Nixon Campaign Associates Are Caught Breaking Into Democratic Headquarters June 17, 1972: The Watergate Scandal Begins, as Nixon Campaign Associates Are Caught Breaking Into Democratic Headquarters

“Whatever the motive for the ‘breaking and entering,’ it was not burglary, third rate or otherwise.”

Jun 17, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

Truck in Chile after flood

Climate Change Is a Crisis We Can Only Solve Together Climate Change Is a Crisis We Can Only Solve Together

The very idea that we—as atomized individuals—could play a significant part in stabilizing the planet’s climate is objectively nuts.

Jun 17, 2015 / Feature / Naomi Klein

Protest against Broken Windows

You Can’t Fix ‘Broken Windows’, So End It Now You Can’t Fix ‘Broken Windows’, So End It Now

After a year of tragedies, framed by the deaths of Eric Garner and Kalief Browder, it’s time for our leaders to discard this racist and immoral idea.

Jun 17, 2015 / The Editors

The Score: Workers Don't Get Pregnant, Do They?

The Stealthy Way Employers Keep Women Out of the Workforce The Stealthy Way Employers Keep Women Out of the Workforce

In the 21st century, the worker is still assumed to be a man.

Jun 17, 2015 / Bryce Covert

George Pataki

Why Do Journalists Take Delusional Presidential Candidates So Seriously? Why Do Journalists Take Delusional Presidential Candidates So Seriously?

George Pataki’s campaign is a figment of his imagination. But that didn’t stop the press from covering it as if it were the real thing.

Jun 17, 2015 / Column / Eric Alterman

John McCain and Mitch McConnell

Climate Deniers Are Quickly Bringing About Their Own Worst Nightmare Climate Deniers Are Quickly Bringing About Their Own Worst Nightmare

Jun 17, 2015 / Naomi Oreskes

Demonstrators protest the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The Death Penalty Cases Before the Supreme Court Are a Prelude to a Legal Assault on the Constitutionality of Capital Punishment The Death Penalty Cases Before the Supreme Court Are a Prelude to a Legal Assault on the Constitutionality of Capital Punishment

Four soon-to-be-decided cases test the scope and application of the death penalty.

Jun 17, 2015 / James D. Zirin

Bombed Greenwich Village Building

Ignorant Good Will Ignorant Good Will

How an excesses of idealism and the embrace of violence destroyed the American left in the 1970s.

Jun 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein

Still image from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Strange Worlds Strange Worlds

Maybe action movies, like youth itself, are wasted on the young.

Jun 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

‘Are You Black?’ ‘Yes.’ An Interview With Rachel Dolezal

‘Are You Black?’ ‘Yes.’ An Interview With Rachel Dolezal ‘Are You Black?’ ‘Yes.’ An Interview With Rachel Dolezal

In these excerpts from an interview with Melissa Harris-Perry, Rachel Dolezal, the former president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP who resigned amid accusations that she lied…

Jun 16, 2015 / Melissa Harris-Perry

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