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May 31, 2023
Can Americans Really Make a Free Choice About Dying?
In a country that treats disabled people like expensive burdens and that teaches people to hate and fear disabilities, activists argue that true bodily autonomy is not possible.
Sara Luterman
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May 30, 2023
What Are the Book Banners Afraid Of?
They are afraid of readers—especially young readers—learning the truth about humans, about American history, about, perhaps, their own lives.
Jane Smiley
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May 30, 2023
The Takeover of Shasta County
In the quiet California region, extremists have infiltrated local government. Is it a new blueprint for the right?
Sasha Abramsky
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May 23, 2023
How to Fight the Right’s Moral Panic Over Parental Rights
How the right’s school-themed extremism has triggered a nationwide backlash.
Jennifer C. Berkshire
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May 22, 2023
When “Suicide Watch” Becomes a Death Sentence
Instead of the help they need, people in prisons and jails with mental health issues are often left alone to suffer—and sometimes die.
Katie Rose Quandt
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May 16, 2023
In East Palestine, Norfolk Southern Hired a Company With a Long History of Ignoring Hazards
Why trust a company with CTEH’s spotty record to monitor air quality at the site of the Ohio train wreck? For the railroad, it all made perfect $en$e.
Jesse Marx and Nicolas Niarchos
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May 15, 2023
Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile
The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy.
Peter Kornbluh
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May 15, 2023
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal—Still at Large at 100
We now know a great deal about the crimes he committed while in office, from helping Nixon derail the Paris Peace Talks and prolong the Vietnam War to green-lighting the invasion of Cambodia and Pinochet’s coup in Chile. But we know little about his four decades with Kissinger Associates.
Greg Grandin
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May 12, 2023
Pakistani Police Are Making Protesters Disappear
While reporting on the protests against the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan, I was attacked and held without cause. I’m not the only one.
Hasan Ali
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May 8, 2023
The Anarchism of the Catholic Worker
In its 90th year, the radical peace movement is reinvigorating itself by going hyper-local.
Renée Darline Roden