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#MeToo Made Me Reconsider My Wartime Affair

#MeToo Made Me Reconsider My Wartime Affair #MeToo Made Me Reconsider My Wartime Affair

Was it love? A search for validation and empowerment? Or was he taking advantage?

Dec 31, 2019 / Teresa Fazio

Bill Greider Showed Us What American Journalism Could Be

Bill Greider Showed Us What American Journalism Could Be Bill Greider Showed Us What American Journalism Could Be

Join me in raising a glass to a legend, my mentor and friend, a reporter who prized reality over false notions of “balance.” He will be missed.

Dec 31, 2019 / Robert L. Borosage

A Real Basket Case

A Real Basket Case A Real Basket Case

Gun culture is weaving itself into daily American life.

Dec 30, 2019 / OppArt / Jappie King Black

The Democrats’ School Choice Problem

The Democrats’ School Choice Problem The Democrats’ School Choice Problem

Charter schools find their most vocal Democratic support among the least progressive members of the party: centrists and Wall Streeters.

Dec 30, 2019 / Jennifer C. Berkshire

Thank You, Comrade Greider

Thank You, Comrade Greider Thank You, Comrade Greider

Bill Greider spared no one his incisive political criticism—on the left or the right. “I think this country needs to start over,” he once wrote me.

Dec 30, 2019 / Karen Rothmyer

William Greider

Remembering Bill Greider Remembering Bill Greider

Bill was an American heretic: inquisitive, unwilling to accept conventional dogmas, and always a voice for the people.

Dec 27, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

William Barr’s Police-Fueled War on Civil Rights

William Barr’s Police-Fueled War on Civil Rights William Barr’s Police-Fueled War on Civil Rights

The attorney general’s obsession with protecting the police is a throwback to the crackdown on protesters in the 1960s.   

Dec 27, 2019 / Joshua Clark Davis

One Family’s Story and the Meaning of Migration in 21st Century America

One Family’s Story and the Meaning of Migration in 21st Century America One Family’s Story and the Meaning of Migration in 21st Century America

Jason DeParle’s A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves tracks the three decade journey of the Comodas family from the Philippines to Houston, Texas.

Dec 27, 2019 / Q&A / Noah Flora

Vape Bans Won’t Make You Safer

Vape Bans Won’t Make You Safer Vape Bans Won’t Make You Safer

Harm reduction advocates oppose vaping bans of all kinds, arguing that vaping is the most effective way to permanently ease smokers off cigarettes.

Dec 27, 2019 / Teddy Ostrow

The Left Case for Fertility Awareness

The Left Case for Fertility Awareness The Left Case for Fertility Awareness

No pill, intrauterine device, or ultra-ribbed piece of rubber could provide the sexual liberation I experience practicing a method associated with anti-choice religious zealots.

Dec 26, 2019 / Megan Magray

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