Articles

A group of Indigenous people is leading a demonstration for the climate organized in Brussels, Belgium, on October 23, 2022.

Coming Sunday: The People Behind the Climate Numbers Coming Sunday: The People Behind the Climate Numbers

The next phase of The 89 Percent Project profiles climate’s supermajority.

Oct 23, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

Coming for Your Rights!

Coming for Your Rights! Coming for Your Rights!

Will the USA rise to the occasion?

Oct 23, 2025 / OppArt / Gia Ruiz

Pete Buttigieg’s appearance on “Pod Save America” did not go very well.

Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed

From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.

Oct 23, 2025 / Y.L. Al-Sheikh

A military truck transporting the belongings of a resident past the Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap province.

Independent Media in Cambodia Is Collapsing. Washington Made It Worse. Independent Media in Cambodia Is Collapsing. Washington Made It Worse.

The Thai-Cambodian border conflict is just one of the many stories going underreported in the country as Trump’s funding cuts leave citizens and journalists scrambling.

Oct 23, 2025 / StudentNation / Rani Chor

A Downbeat Take on the Heist Movie

A Downbeat Take on the Heist Movie A Downbeat Take on the Heist Movie

Kelly Reichardt’s latest, a sly 1970s drama involving a museum theft, probes the broken politics of the decade.

Oct 23, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi

Salt marsh buildups in a Nuclear Waste facility in Germany.

“A House of Dynamite” “A House of Dynamite”

Confronting the new nuclear era.

Oct 22, 2025 / Michael T. Klare

An AI Data Center in Abilene, Texas

Will the AI Boom Lead to Water and Electricity Shortages? Will the AI Boom Lead to Water and Electricity Shortages?

It’s a steep price to pay so that Mark Zuckerberg can sell AI-enabled spy glasses.

Oct 22, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Chicago

Chicago Chicago

Wide angle.

Oct 22, 2025 / OppArt / Michael de Adder

Nicolas Poussin’s “Landscape with a Calm,” 1650–51.

What T.J. Clark Sees  What T.J. Clark Sees 

His art criticism reaches rarified heights—combining style, rigor, and politics like almost no one else.

Oct 22, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Mumia Abu-Jamal, seen here in a December 13, 1995, photo from prison, was convicted in 1982 of murdering a Philadelphia policeman.

Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With the Clear Voice of a Free Man Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With the Clear Voice of a Free Man

Incarcerated for 44 years, the political prisoner remains unbowed in the face of medical neglect.

Oct 22, 2025 / Dave Zirin

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