What Do You Think This Is, Earth Prime? What Do You Think This Is, Earth Prime?
That’s the one where all the problems keep not getting fixed.
Sep 8, 2021 / Tom Tomorrow
The Politics of Viruses The Politics of Viruses
Carl Zimmer and what popular science writing often misses.
Sep 7, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Danielle Carr
When Sex Workers Speak, Who Listens? When Sex Workers Speak, Who Listens?
The initial decision by OnlyFans to ban porn illustrates how ostensibly legal online sex work is, in reality, criminalized.
Sep 6, 2021 / Emily Coombes
The New New Deal? The New New Deal?
Bernie Sanders says the Democratic caucus’s budget will be “the most consequential piece of legislation for working people, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the poor” since...
Sep 6, 2021 / John Nichols
Sotomayor’s Defiant Dissent Sotomayor’s Defiant Dissent
In her blistering dissent, the Supreme Court justice calls out her conservative colleagues’ breathtaking disregard of precedent and the Constitution.
Sep 3, 2021 / Justice Sonia Sotomayor
What Can Democrats Do to Fight Texas’s Abortion Ban? Lots. What Can Democrats Do to Fight Texas’s Abortion Ban? Lots.
The only question is how far Democrats are willing to go to defend women’s rights.
Sep 2, 2021 / Elie Mystal
“Roe v. Wade” Will Functionally Cease to Exist in Texas “Roe v. Wade” Will Functionally Cease to Exist in Texas
Unless the Supreme Court steps in, the country’s most dangerous anti-abortion law will go into effect, banning abortions after six weeks and placing a cash bounty on providers.
Aug 31, 2021 / Elie Mystal for The Nation
The Rhetoric of Pop Psychology The Rhetoric of Pop Psychology
Jesse Singal’s takedown of trendy science aimed at fixing human behavior in The Quick Fix reveals the limits of a certain strand of journalism.
Aug 31, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Gordon
The Disastrous Opening of One Arkansas School District The Disastrous Opening of One Arkansas School District
When schools in Marion, Ark., opened, the district was prohibited from requiring masks. Here’s what their experience can teach the rest of the country.
Aug 30, 2021 / StudentNation / Olivia Paschal
The Unemployed Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic The Unemployed Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic
For years, Rob Wallace warned that industrial agriculture could cause deadly outbreaks at a global scale. It made him an exile in his field.
Aug 30, 2021 / Feature / Eamon Whalen