Republicans Attacked These Queer Students’ Lives. So They Fought Back. Republicans Attacked These Queer Students’ Lives. So They Fought Back.
How three Kentucky high schoolers joined forces to stand up to a GOP assault on their rights—and brought hundreds of people along with them.
May 30, 2023 / Shahamat Uddin
What Are the Book Banners Afraid Of? What Are the Book Banners Afraid Of?
They are afraid of readers—especially young readers—learning the truth about humans, about American history, about, perhaps, their own lives.
May 30, 2023 / Feature / Jane Smiley
Ron DeSantis’s Copycat Strategy Is Failing Ron DeSantis’s Copycat Strategy Is Failing
The Florida governor’s bungled campaign launch makes clear there is only room for one Trump.
May 26, 2023 / Jeet Heer
Focusing on the Differences Between DeSantis and Trump Is Plainly Absurd Focusing on the Differences Between DeSantis and Trump Is Plainly Absurd
In the areas where Americans would be most severely affected, there’s hardly a fly’s hair of separation between them.
May 25, 2023 / Clarence Lusane
How to Fight the Right’s Moral Panic Over Parental Rights How to Fight the Right’s Moral Panic Over Parental Rights
How the right’s school-themed extremism has triggered a nationwide backlash.
May 23, 2023 / Feature / Jennifer C. Berkshire
The California Teachers’ Strikes Have a Vital Lesson for the Labor Movement The California Teachers’ Strikes Have a Vital Lesson for the Labor Movement
These educators won big—and showed how to use a strike to better society as a whole.
May 19, 2023 / Cecily Myart-Cruz
Joe Biden, Culture Warrior Joe Biden, Culture Warrior
The president’s freedom agenda can win—if he doesn’t embrace austerity.
May 15, 2023 / Jeet Heer
Helen Gym Has a Plan to Make Philadelphia Safe Helen Gym Has a Plan to Make Philadelphia Safe
If elected, Gym would join other progressive mayors in Chicago, Boston, and Los Angeles in reimagining public safety in US cities.
May 10, 2023 / Nikhil Goyal
Connecticut Will Require Public Schools to Teach Climate Change. Can More States Follow? Connecticut Will Require Public Schools to Teach Climate Change. Can More States Follow?
While Congress is unlikely to pass a national climate education bill any time soon, there is an opportunity for local legislators to take similar actions.
Apr 28, 2023 / StudentNation / Sena Wazer
Pick ’Em: Making Sense of the Free-for-All Primary for Mayor of Philadelphia Pick ’Em: Making Sense of the Free-for-All Primary for Mayor of Philadelphia
For a job the current incumbent seems eager to leave, the contest has drawn a remarkably diverse field of candidates—and no obvious front-runner.
Apr 26, 2023 / Gene Seymour