Social Justice

Kaiser Permanente workers on strike marching with signs on a picket line

What’s Powering the Healthcare Worker Strike Wave? What’s Powering the Healthcare Worker Strike Wave?

Nurses and others have won victories on the picket line they couldn’t achieve at the ballot box.

Nov 1, 2023 / Jonathan Rosenblum

Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and national director, speaking at the Anti-Defamation League National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C.

The ADL Is Defaming Palestinian Students as Terrorist Supporters The ADL Is Defaming Palestinian Students as Terrorist Supporters

The group is urging hundreds of colleges to investigate Students for Justice in Palestine for material support for terrorism. September 11 politics are back in force.

Oct 31, 2023 / Spencer Ackerman

A black-and-white photo of a smokestack billowing out smoke.

Corporate Bullsh*t, and How to Fight It Corporate Bullsh*t, and How to Fight It

Here’s your handbook to stop corporate lies in their tracks and change the country.

Oct 31, 2023 / Joan Walsh, Nick Hanauer, and Donald Cohen

Temecula Valley Unified School District Board

How Black Moms in Temecula Are Fighting the School Board’s Right-Wing Takeover How Black Moms in Temecula Are Fighting the School Board’s Right-Wing Takeover

The board banned “critical race theory” and decried ethnic studies, but a local group of Black mothers has a plan. “We’re going to use what’s available to us—the right we have as ...

Oct 31, 2023 / StudentNation / Mara Marques Cavallaro

Students from Brooklyn College and supporters hold signs during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the entrance of the campus.

One of New York's Most Vital Colleges Is Targeting Muslim Students One of New York's Most Vital Colleges Is Targeting Muslim Students

The Brooklyn College administration has repeatedly shown that it is willing to suppress Muslim and Palestinian speech on campus.

Oct 30, 2023 / Jeanne Theoharis

Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” in theaters now.

Leonardo DiCaprio Is Just the Latest of Martin Scorsese’s Husbands From Hell Leonardo DiCaprio Is Just the Latest of Martin Scorsese’s Husbands From Hell

Killers of the Flower Moon offers a vivid and compelling study of racism as domestic violence.

Oct 27, 2023 / Jeet Heer

Writer Jonathan Lethem poses for a photo against a gray background

Jonathan Lethem Returns to the Scene of the Crime Jonathan Lethem Returns to the Scene of the Crime

In his new novel, the bard of Boerum Hill interrogates the brutal truths of gentrification.

Oct 27, 2023 / Ross Barkan

Dennis Prager, conservative radio talk show host and writer, speaks at a Turning Point USA summit.

Yes, Prager U Wants to Indoctrinate Your Kids. But That’s Not Really the Point. Yes, Prager U Wants to Indoctrinate Your Kids. But That’s Not Really the Point.

The aim isn’t just to change what gets taught but to transform how we understand ourselves, the public realm, and the common good.

Oct 25, 2023 / Jack Schneider and Jennifer C. Berkshire

People rally in support of Palestinians in Times Square in New York on October 8, 2023.

Why I Just Quit DSA Why I Just Quit DSA

After over four decades as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, one of the group’s founding members is leaving in sorrow and anger.

Oct 23, 2023 / Maurice Isserman

Lawmaker and presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza Javier Milei speaks during a press conference in Buenos Aires on October 11, 2023, ahead of Argentina’s presidential elections.

Argentina’s Son-of-Sam Presidential Election Argentina’s Son-of-Sam Presidential Election

The front-runner in Sunday’s election wants to create a free-market dystopia where even human organs are for sale. Oh—and he believes he can communicate with his dead dog.

Oct 20, 2023 / Jacob Sugarman

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