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Feature
The Long, Winding, and Painful Story of Asylum
An ancient concept, asylum has become just another political tool in the hands of our government.
John Washington
Organizing on the Coasts Won’t Save the Planet
Rural America has the land, the people, and the potential to flip the political equation on climate change.
Jane Fleming Kleeb
The Extinction Crisis Devastating San Francisco Bay
The San Francisco Bay’s rich ecosystem is collapsing—and the region’s liberal leaders bear part of the blame.
Jimmy Tobias
Editorial
We Can’t Save the Economy Without Universal Child Care
A smoothly functioning economy is one in which people who want to work are able to do so.
Bryce Covert
The Next Voter Suppression
Wisconsin’s elections gave us a preview of the lengths to which Republicans and their judicial allies will go to disenfranchise voters in November.
John Nichols
This Earth Day, Stop the Money Pipeline
We’re cooked unless investors stop funding fossil fuel companies.
Bill McKibben
Anti-Abortion Opportunism
There is no good time to restrict access to abortion.
Rachel Rebouché
Can Biden Go Left?
The Sanders movement won’t be won over with empty gestures.
D.D. Guttenplan
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Immigrants Are Bearing the Brunt of the Coronavirus Crisis
Telling the stories of this pandemic through photography.
Cinthya Santos Briones
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Remembering Perry Rosenstein
We miss him more than we can say.
Victor Navasky
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Column
Describing Trump Strains the Imagination
Accurately reporting on the White House requires the kind of language that journalists do not generally allow themselves.
Eric Alterman
Pattern
Calvin Trillin
Books & the Arts
Lorraine Hansberry’s Radicalism
For the playwright and activist, neither liberal reform nor countercultural art were enough. The very foundations of American democracy needed to be transformed.
Elias Rodriques
What’s the Deal With Grimes?
Her climate change pop album
Miss Anthropocene
is riven with contradictions.
Julyssa Lopez
from ‘For a Daughter/No Address’
Farid Matuk
A Lower Register Sweetness
Josh Kalscheur
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