Here’s How the Left Should Think About the Chan-Zuckerberg Announcement Here’s How the Left Should Think About the Chan-Zuckerberg Announcement
Could the Facebook family change the status quo of Silicon Valley philanthropy?
Dec 3, 2015 / Amy Schiller
Naomi Klein: Breaking the Back of Our Carbon Economy Naomi Klein: Breaking the Back of Our Carbon Economy
What should an economy that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels actually look like?
Dec 3, 2015 / Naomi Klein
Asking for a Friend: I’m in Love With a Republican—What Do I Do? Asking for a Friend: I’m in Love With a Republican—What Do I Do?
Liza answers a reader in love, and another who wants to blow up the system that screwed him over.
Dec 3, 2015 / Liza Featherstone
Alabama’s Controversial Voter-ID Law Is Challenged In Court Alabama’s Controversial Voter-ID Law Is Challenged In Court
One day after the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, civil-rights groups charge Alabama with violating the Voting Rights Act.
Dec 2, 2015 / Ari Berman
Not Everyone in North Carolina Wants to Keep Refugees Out Not Everyone in North Carolina Wants to Keep Refugees Out
In spite of what North Carolina’s governor has said, many in the state welcome religious and ethnic diversity—but their voices have been drowned out in the wake of the Paris attack...
Dec 1, 2015 / Phoebe Zerwick
The Power of Moral Mondays The Power of Moral Mondays
Reverend Barber’s multi-racial movement for justice.
Dec 1, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rosa Parks Wasn’t Meek, Passive, or Naive—and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn’t Learn in School Rosa Parks Wasn’t Meek, Passive, or Naive—and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn’t Learn in School
Much of what students are taught, and much of what most Americans think they know, about Parks’s activism is wrong.
Dec 1, 2015 / Jeanne Theoharis and Say Burgin
How to Understand White Male Terrorism How to Understand White Male Terrorism
We’ve been here before, and we know that violent backlash is at its fiercest when movements for racial and gender justice are winning.
Nov 30, 2015 / Max Berger
November 29, 1980: Dorothy Day Dies November 29, 1980: Dorothy Day Dies
“All the gamblers in a Greenwich Village bar admired her because she could drink any one of them under the table.”
Nov 29, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
One Year Ago, Black Activists Shut Down the Bay Area’s Subway. Here’s Why They’re Still Fighting. One Year Ago, Black Activists Shut Down the Bay Area’s Subway. Here’s Why They’re Still Fighting.
The Black Friday 14 shut down Bay Area Rapid Transit this time last year. They’re demanding that the charges they face be dropped.
Nov 25, 2015 / Dani McClain