Famed Chicago Alt-Weekly Barely Survives a Covid Scare Famed Chicago Alt-Weekly Barely Survives a Covid Scare
When the Chicago Reader’s editor sent the co-owner’s anti-vax column to be fact-checked, the fallout nearly killed the paper.
May 10, 2022 / Author
We Cannot Rely on Billionaires to Create Necessary Guardrails on Social Media We Cannot Rely on Billionaires to Create Necessary Guardrails on Social Media
Nothing makes the case for public ownership of online public spaces like a billionaire proposing to buy one.
May 3, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What the Year 2000 Wrought What the Year 2000 Wrought
A conversation with Andrew Rice about his book The Year That Broke America, the chaotic politics of the aughts, and how that decade’s eccentric characters defined American life.&nb...
Apr 26, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Alana Pockros
Against World War III Against World War III
Is a long, bloody war between Russia and Ukraine really in our national interest?
Apr 21, 2022 / Column / David Bromwich
The American Media’s Approach to War Coverage Needs to Be Fundamentally Reimagined The American Media’s Approach to War Coverage Needs to Be Fundamentally Reimagined
We need more reporting on forgotten conflicts—and more stories that spotlight how war ravages people and leads to atrocities.
Apr 19, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
“The Great Resignation” Is a Great Exaggeration “The Great Resignation” Is a Great Exaggeration
Workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers, but it’s not a turning point for labor power.
Apr 18, 2022 / Ann Larson
Press Freedom Is an Essential Climate Solution Press Freedom Is an Essential Climate Solution
The climate emergency demands more and louder coverage—and that journalists be free to provide it.
Apr 14, 2022 / Giles Trendle
Laughing Ourselves to Death at the Gridiron Dinner Laughing Ourselves to Death at the Gridiron Dinner
As Democrats embrace rugged individualism, the pundit class leans into public health apartheid.
Apr 14, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves
Cancel Culture Exists Cancel Culture Exists
It’s fashionable to claim there are no real consequences for online callouts. The truth is, there very often are.
Apr 14, 2022 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Eric Boehlert Got Everything Right About Our Petty, Self-Congratulating Media Eric Boehlert Got Everything Right About Our Petty, Self-Congratulating Media
From his early coverage of political reporters’ savaging Al Gore to his incisive critique of their Joe Biden coverage right before he died, he got it. And he will be missed.
Apr 7, 2022 / Joan Walsh