Akwasi Frimpong’s Struggle to Represent Africa at the Winter Olympics Akwasi Frimpong’s Struggle to Represent Africa at the Winter Olympics
The IOC bureaucracy should let the skeleton competitor claim his rightful place at the Beijing Games.
Jan 18, 2022 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
Redistricting, Restrictions Redistricting, Restrictions
Destroying women’s rights.
Columbia University Has Lost Its Way Columbia University Has Lost Its Way
The Ivy League institution’s approach to the contract negotiations with its grad student workers reveals how it has evolved into a predatory business.
Jan 18, 2022 / StudentNation / Katherine Franke
If the Senate Fails to Act, Voting Is Not the Only Freedom on the Line If the Senate Fails to Act, Voting Is Not the Only Freedom on the Line
The same state legislators who are attacking voting rights are pushing ever-more-extreme bans and restrictions on abortion rights and access.
Jan 18, 2022 / Mini Timmaraju
Fossil Fuel, Fuels Doom Fossil Fuel, Fuels Doom
Oil companies spend millions to stop climate action.
Jan 17, 2022 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
5 Lessons From Hunter S. Thompson 5 Lessons From Hunter S. Thompson
Wisdom from the godfather of gonzo.
Jan 17, 2022 / Peter Richardson
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Unfinished Work of Abolishing Poverty Martin Luther King Jr. and the Unfinished Work of Abolishing Poverty
Democrats failed to embrace his Freedom Budget for All Americans in the 1960s. That failure needs to be addressed today with a bold program to abolish poverty and injustice.
Jan 17, 2022 / John Nichols
The Protest Movement and the Protest Government The Protest Movement and the Protest Government
No one acquainted with right-wing media can doubt that anger over the 2020 riots—in Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, Philadelphia, and elsewhere—fed the wildness of the January 6 riot.
Jan 14, 2022 / David Bromwich
Hitch ’22 Hitch ’22
Fauci floaters. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of January 10.
Jan 14, 2022 / Steve Brodner
Rebuild and Revive Rebuild and Revive
Nature needs us to act now.