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When It Comes to Being Gay-Friendly, Women’s Sports Are Ahead of the Game

When It Comes to Being Gay-Friendly, Women’s Sports Are Ahead of the Game When It Comes to Being Gay-Friendly, Women’s Sports Are Ahead of the Game

Women’s leagues have become much safer spaces for queerness, while men’s sports are still trapped in a culture of repression.

Nov 20, 2019 / Payal Dhar

Hong Kong Was Never Built to Stand Up to China

Hong Kong Was Never Built to Stand Up to China Hong Kong Was Never Built to Stand Up to China

The power of the territory’s courts was dismissed by Beijing this week—proving just how weak Hong Kong’s rule of law has always been.

Nov 19, 2019 / Yukiko Kobayashi Lui

Participants hold signs as Democratic U.S. presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington

The Furor Over Medicare for All Ignores a Key Question The Furor Over Medicare for All Ignores a Key Question

Do we have the courage to make health care a right, not a privilege?

Nov 19, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

President Donald Trump

Trump Wants to Treat Undocumented Migrants Like Enemy Combatants Trump Wants to Treat Undocumented Migrants Like Enemy Combatants

But US soldiers who commit war crimes? They’re “deserving individuals” who deserve “second chances.”

Nov 19, 2019 / Sasha Abramsky

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Letters From the December 2/9, 2019, Issue Letters From the December 2/9, 2019, Issue

The truth about lies… Fixing a supreme injustice…

Nov 19, 2019 / Our Readers and Eric Alterman

Comix Nation

Comix Nation Comix Nation

ignore this…

Nov 19, 2019 / Jen Sorensen

Surviving Indonesia’s Antigay Clampdown

Surviving Indonesia’s Antigay Clampdown Surviving Indonesia’s Antigay Clampdown

They met, fell in love, and were nearly torn apart in a country where LGBTQ people are increasingly persecuted.

Nov 19, 2019 / Feature / Nicole Einbinder and Gabriela Bhaskar

Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology

Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology

In his short story collection Exhalation, he builds social worlds where every character and object is deeply intertwined in history and in future possibility.

Nov 19, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse

We Asked the 2020 Contenders How They Plan to Tackle Inequality

We Asked the 2020 Contenders How They Plan to Tackle Inequality We Asked the 2020 Contenders How They Plan to Tackle Inequality

A surging egalitarian current is shifting the Democratic Party’s policy mainstream—so we asked the presidential candidates about it.

Nov 19, 2019 / Feature / Sam Pizzigati

Colin Kaepernick

Colin Kaepernick Refused to Bend to Roger Goodell’s Will Colin Kaepernick Refused to Bend to Roger Goodell’s Will

The quarterback remade the NFL’s hastily called league-wide tryout and demanded transparency.

Nov 18, 2019 / Dave Zirin

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