For Iranian Women, the Uprising Was a Long Time Coming For Iranian Women, the Uprising Was a Long Time Coming
The protests are about choice—elective rather than mandatory hijab—not unlike the demands of abortion rights supporters in the United States.
Oct 27, 2022 / Kiana Karimi
In Vermont, Voters Could Make Abortion a Constitutional Right In Vermont, Voters Could Make Abortion a Constitutional Right
This November, the state could become one of the first in the country to ratify a constitutional amendment declaring a right to personal reproductive autonomy.
Oct 27, 2022 / Amy Littlefield
Republicans Have Spent Millions on Youth Outreach. And It’s Working. Republicans Have Spent Millions on Youth Outreach. And It’s Working.
Kyle Spencer’s new book Raising Them Right shows how the conservative establishment has recruited and trained new generations of activists over the last 60 years.
Oct 26, 2022 / Q&A / Julian Epp
Mike Davis: 1946–2022 Mike Davis: 1946–2022
A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory.
Oct 25, 2022 / Obituary / Jon Wiener
Ross Gay on the Labor of “Inciting Joy” Ross Gay on the Labor of “Inciting Joy”
A conversation with the poet Ross Gay about Inciting Joy, an exploration of joy as a critical emotion that “gets us to love, as a practice of survival."
Oct 25, 2022 / Q&A / Sara Franklin
21,000 Supporters Urge Alvin Bragg to Free Tracy McCarter 21,000 Supporters Urge Alvin Bragg to Free Tracy McCarter
The Manhattan district attorney is prosecuting McCarter in the death of her estranged husband.
Oct 25, 2022 / Victoria Law
Do We Really Have to Care About Miserable White People? Do We Really Have to Care About Miserable White People?
Sadly, yes, because they wield disproportionate political power.
Oct 25, 2022 / Joan Walsh
Journalism Turns a Corner on Climate Change Journalism Turns a Corner on Climate Change
Watch the Covering Climate Now TV special Burning Questions tonight on public television’s WORLD channel.
Oct 25, 2022 / Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
Young Socialists Are Sick of the 2-Party System Young Socialists Are Sick of the 2-Party System
YDSA, the youth section of the largest socialist organization in the country, is tired of working within the Democratic Party. Can they create an alternative?
Oct 25, 2022 / StudentNation / Zurie Pope
Is Gen X a Bunch of Trumpers? Maybe That’s the Wrong Question. Is Gen X a Bunch of Trumpers? Maybe That’s the Wrong Question.
Amid the hoopla over polls suggesting the slacker generation is tilting right, it’s worth pausing to ask who we mean by "Gen X."
Oct 25, 2022 / Elie Mystal