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January 27, 2023
I’m the Proud Dad of a Drag Queen—and I Want a Better World for My Kid
Why are many thoughtful, well-educated people so ready to lump drag queens, nonbinary, and transgender people in a single rejectable category?
Ira Chernus
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January 13, 2023
Norman Fruchter Was a Giant in the Fight for Education Equity
Fruchter, who passed away recently, was also a key figure in the New Left on both sides of the Atlantic.
Alix Kates Shulman
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December 29, 2022
The Butler Didn’t Do It! On Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion”
While Knives Out was a brilliant inversion of the class politics of an Agatha Christie whodunit, the sequel wants to have it both ways.
Ethan Iverson
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December 5, 2022
Staughton Lynd Never Lost the Courage of His Convictions
The historian and activist, who died last month, paid a steep price for his commitments. Yet he managed to find a way to keep agitating, and keep writing, while always remaining true to his radical vision.
Joshua Freeman
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November 30, 2022
Reverend William Barber’s Pastoral Letter to the Republican Party
Remember the role your forebears played in America’s first Reconstruction.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
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October 25, 2022
Mike Davis: 1946–2022
A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory.
Jon Wiener
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October 20, 2022
The Death Eaters: Covid in the Liberal Imagination
A call to rescue public health from the dead hand of neutrality.
Gregg Gonsalves
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August 31, 2022
How Emmett Till’s Death Led to the Invention of the “Liberal Media”
The young Black man’s murder is an outrage that still haunts our history. So do the lies in the media set in motion by the discovery of his mutilated body 67 years ago today.
Chris Lamb
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August 30, 2022
Why Pickleball Is the Fastest-Growing Sport In the US
The game brings people together at a time of growing isolation and division.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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August 24, 2022
Howard Zinn at 100: Remembering “The People’s Historian”
Zinn made no pretense of neutrality. He believed that “in a world of conflict,” it was the historian’s job to advocate for the oppressed.
Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow