Bayard Rustin Was No Hollywood Figurehead Bayard Rustin Was No Hollywood Figurehead
The new biopic about the socialist organizer stops at the March on Washington. What is it leaving out?
Dec 12, 2023 / Column / Adolph Reed Jr.
The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement
Culture / Books & the Arts / December 12, 2023 More Than a Natural Function The politics of birth. The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement Though it res…
Dec 12, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Moira Donegan
Local News Has Been Destroyed. Here’s How We Can Revive It. Local News Has Been Destroyed. Here’s How We Can Revive It.
A plan to build back better.
Dec 12, 2023 / Feature / John Nichols
One Big Cookout: From the “Negro Press” to Black Twitter One Big Cookout: From the “Negro Press” to Black Twitter
We always suspected that whatever magazines and newspapers for white folks weren’t telling us, Black newspapers and magazines would.
Dec 12, 2023 / Feature / Gene Seymour
It’s Time for Gaza’s Journalists to Be Treated Like the Heroes They Are It’s Time for Gaza’s Journalists to Be Treated Like the Heroes They Are
They are reporting under unimaginable difficulties and being killed in record numbers. The journalistic community should be honoring them every day.
Dec 12, 2023 / Nadia Taha
Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas
The Israeli prime minister followed a decades-old divide-and-rule strategy that fuels endless war.
Dec 11, 2023 / Jeet Heer
Around the World, Authoritarians Are Rising Around the World, Authoritarians Are Rising
From Argentina to the Netherlands, democracies are crumbling.
Dec 11, 2023 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards
Elon Musk’s Real Threat to Democracy Isn’t What You Think Elon Musk’s Real Threat to Democracy Isn’t What You Think
How the attention-starved CEO took over our communications infrastructure.
Dec 11, 2023 / Feature / Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Media Monopoly Crisis The Media Monopoly Crisis
Our new special issue takes on the out-of-control consolidation that is squeezing out independent voices and controlling what we read.
Dec 11, 2023 / D.D. Guttenplan for The Nation
The Algorithm Oligarchy The Algorithm Oligarchy
How the Internet produced the age of monopoly platforms.
Dec 11, 2023 / Feature / Colleen Tighe