The Perils of Competition With China The Perils of Competition With China
On American Prestige: Michael Brenes on how the US-China rivalry threatens democracy and peace.
Jul 29, 2025 / Podcast
100 Monkeys 100 Monkeys
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Jul 29, 2025 / OppArt / Steve Brodner
A New Report Exposes How Major American Corporations Have Been All Too Eager to Aid Israeli’s Atrocities in Gaza A New Report Exposes How Major American Corporations Have Been All Too Eager to Aid Israeli’s Atrocities in Gaza
It also reveals our nation’s now undeniable complicity in what has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century.
Jul 29, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”? Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”?
Alex Higley’s True Failure, which dramatizes one man’s dream to pitch his business idea on reality TV, slyly compares this bathetic task to publishing literary fiction.
Jul 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Ben Sandman
A Trip Through Hell A Trip Through Hell
In a Washington county jail, solitary confinement is the worst, most degrading, foulest experience you could ever imagine.
Jul 29, 2025 / Christopher Blackwell
The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb
Retreating water levels are exposing stretches of cracked, arsenic-laden lakebed in Utah. Future dust storms will carry an extra hazard.
Jul 29, 2025 / StudentNation / Adelaide Parker
What We Can Learn About Immigration From an Unlikely Source: Ronald Reagan What We Can Learn About Immigration From an Unlikely Source: Ronald Reagan
Rather than deporting millions of migrants, this Republican president opted for the opposite strategy—legalizing them.
Jul 28, 2025 / Brad Swanson
Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive
The doom-obsessed Democratic Party remains as unpopular as ever—but there is another path.
Jul 28, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Betrayal Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Betrayal
Podcast / The Time of Monsters / Jul 28, 2025 Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Betrayal On The Time of Monsters: Stephen Wertheim on how Trump is blocking real change to the sta…
Jul 28, 2025 / Podcast
These Kids in Gaza Are Starving. So Are Their Mothers. These Kids in Gaza Are Starving. So Are Their Mothers.
“There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?” one woman says.
Jul 28, 2025 / A. Khalil