Newish and Jewish: An Interview With ‘Currents’ Editor Arielle Angel Newish and Jewish: An Interview With ‘Currents’ Editor Arielle Angel
How a revitalized magazine with its roots in American communism captured the Jewish left.
Feb 6, 2020 / Q&A / Sarah M. Seltzer
This Year’s Super Bowl Was Blatantly Propagandistic This Year’s Super Bowl Was Blatantly Propagandistic
Kansas City won the big game, but that was a sideshow compared to the political bombast on display.
Feb 4, 2020 / Dave Zirin
Blocked Parking Spots, Broken Sidewalks, and Boulders: How Common Spaces Fail People With Disabilities Blocked Parking Spots, Broken Sidewalks, and Boulders: How Common Spaces Fail People With Disabilities
The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed to ensure that we all had access to public spaces, but the implementation has not always lived up to the law.
Jan 31, 2020 / Photo Essay / Elizabeth Guffey
‘Woke’ CEOs Don’t Actually Care About Economic Justice ‘Woke’ CEOs Don’t Actually Care About Economic Justice
Make no mistake: In business, earnings matter more than equality.
Jan 28, 2020 / Column / Aaron Ross Coleman
How a Collective of Mothers Flipped the Script on Housing How a Collective of Mothers Flipped the Script on Housing
When the group Moms 4 Housing occupied a vacant house in West Oakland, they were confronting a system designed to exclude them.
Jan 24, 2020 / Jonny Coleman
NFL Player Justin Jackson: ‘40 Years of Neoliberalism Has Brought Our Country to the Brink’ NFL Player Justin Jackson: ‘40 Years of Neoliberalism Has Brought Our Country to the Brink’
Justin Jackson is creating space for himself this election year as an unapologetic “Berniecrat” with a progressive critique of what ails this country.
Jan 24, 2020 / Edge of Sports / Dave Zirin
This Lunar New Year, Demand Solidarity This Lunar New Year, Demand Solidarity
As tension with China continues to mount, it’s time for Chinese Americans to become a more powerful force for progressive change.
Jan 24, 2020 / Tobita Chow
‘It’s Like Living in Solitary Confinement, but Out in the World’ ‘It’s Like Living in Solitary Confinement, but Out in the World’
Born in Soviet Ukraine and denied status in Canada and the United States, Karina describes the plight of statelessness—living without being recognized by any country at all.
Jan 23, 2020 / Migrant Voices / John Washington
Trump Leads a Government of, by, and for Bullies Trump Leads a Government of, by, and for Bullies
Where are the president and his minions on the empathy scale? Pretty damn low.
Jan 21, 2020 / Signal:Noise / Sasha Abramsky