If Jeffrey Epstein Faces Justice, It’ll Be Thanks to a Local Newspaper

The decline of regional news will lead to a golden age of corruption.

Eric Alterman

How Medicare for All Would Stop Hospitals Like Hahnemann From Closing

Taking the profit motive out of health care would ensure that hospitals could provide excellent care to all who need it.

Adam Gaffney

The Women’s World Cup Legacy

Coach Kevin McNutt joins me as we talk Women’s world cup and debate our Mt. Rushmore lists.

Dave Zirin

Letters From the July 29-August 5, 2019, Issue

Our Readers

Take Action Now: Stop ICE Raids

Help stop deportations in your community by calling reps and joining the sanctuary movement.

NationAction

There’s One Heresy That Sets Bernie Apart From All Other Dem Contenders to Unseat Trump

And it’s not simply that he calls himself a socialist.

Greg Grandin

Why ‘The Chicago Defender’ Still Matters

The history of the paper is a mirror of the larger history of the African American freedom struggle—both of what it already has achieved and what work still needs to be done.

Robert Greene II

Artificial Intelligence Is Failing Humans

When someone’s always watching, we lose our sense of self. 

Patricia J. Williams

Having an Abortion Was the Most Unselfish Thing I’ve Done

A writer reflects on the Trump era, the state of reproductive health in America, and her decision to get an abortion in 1974.

Rebecca Gordon

On Not Looking Away

All perpetrators ask is that we remain bystanders. But to combat complicity, we must confront tragedy.

Arran Skinner