Is Genetic Medicine Making the World Less Fair? Is Genetic Medicine Making the World Less Fair?
New reproductive technologies promise to prevent serious genetic disease. What happens if only the rich can access them?
Aug 23, 2019 / Laura Hercher
Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Finish What FDR Started Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Finish What FDR Started
And it could give Democrats a fighting chance in farm country and small-town America.
Aug 20, 2019 / John Nichols
A Young Mayor Makes the Case for a Guaranteed Income A Young Mayor Makes the Case for a Guaranteed Income
Once a skeptic, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs is now overseeing a radical anti-poverty program.
Aug 16, 2019 / Greg Kaufmann
Rooting for a Recession Is Dangerous—Especially Under Trump Rooting for a Recession Is Dangerous—Especially Under Trump
Unless Democrats offer real alternatives, an economic downturn will only lead to more misery and social strife.
Aug 16, 2019 / Jeet Heer
Immigration Is for Rich People Immigration Is for Rich People
The Trump administration’s public charge rule treats noncitizens as a commodity—but their status was always for sale.
Aug 15, 2019 / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Don’t Let the Trump Administration Rewrite Emma Lazarus Don’t Let the Trump Administration Rewrite Emma Lazarus
The Statue of Liberty poem “The New Colossus” was written as a radical call to welcome all immigrants—not just the wealthy and connected.
Aug 14, 2019 / John Nichols
Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of Sleaze Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of Sleaze
Epstein’s scientist “friends” should have known better than to associate with a crackpot transhumanist.
Aug 12, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt
‘We Call That Love’: Marc Lambert Lamba Defended Cameroon’s LGBT Community ‘We Call That Love’: Marc Lambert Lamba Defended Cameroon’s LGBT Community
Lambert, who died on August 4, was a pioneering LGBT activist who was there to help—even after foreign support dried up.
Aug 12, 2019 / Obituary / Robbie Corey-Boulet
The American Workplace Still Won’t Accommodate Pregnant Workers The American Workplace Still Won’t Accommodate Pregnant Workers
Pregnant women face discrimination up and down the economic ladder—but low-wage workers suffer the most.
Aug 12, 2019 / Feature / Bryce Covert
How Indigenous Mexicans Took on Big Energy and Won How Indigenous Mexicans Took on Big Energy and Won
A natural gas pipeline was scheduled to go online in 2017, but TransCanada wasn’t counting on indigenous resistance.
Aug 12, 2019 / Martha Pskowski