I’m Not Leaving Twitter. Neither Should You. I’m Not Leaving Twitter. Neither Should You.
Twitter is an effective tool for challenging the status quo and powerful people and institutions. That’s why Elon Musk snatched it up.
Nov 16, 2022 / Olayemi Olurin
Close Rikers Close Rikers
Street demonstration, downtown Manhattan, November 3, 2022, organized by CampaignToCloseRikers.org. Eighteen people have died in Rikers Island this year, the deadliest since 2013.
Nov 16, 2022 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo and Steve Brodner
In the War Against Voting, Poll Workers Are on the Front Lines In the War Against Voting, Poll Workers Are on the Front Lines
During the 2022 midterms, election officials faced an unprecedented level of harassment. After the Republicans' poor performance, antidemocratic conspiracies will only become more ...
Nov 16, 2022 / StudentNation / Zurie Pope
Michelle de Kretser’s Unsettled Australia Michelle de Kretser’s Unsettled Australia
Her novels examine how migration and globalization have changed the country's identity and relation to the rest of the world.
Nov 16, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Nawal Arjini
Democrats Should Use This Moment to Codify “Roe v. Wade” Democrats Should Use This Moment to Codify “Roe v. Wade”
The midterms proved that Americans support abortion rights, and Democrats should enshrine them—even though the Supreme Court will promptly strike them down.
Nov 15, 2022 / Elie Mystal
Kiribati’s Disorder in the Court Kiribati’s Disorder in the Court
The Pacific island nation's attempted deportation of an Australian-born judge shows how the decolonizing world’s reliance on foreign-born judges threatens nascent democracies.
Nov 15, 2022 / Pete McKenzie
White Nationalist Hate Is Infiltrating Our Police White Nationalist Hate Is Infiltrating Our Police
If Biden cares about what he calls the white supremacist “poison…running through our body politic,” his administration had better get busy purging the strain that courses through t...
Nov 15, 2022 / Column / Kali Holloway
Georgia Isn’t Just Gravy Georgia Isn’t Just Gravy
Democrats can do a lot more with 51 Senate seats.
Nov 14, 2022 / Jeet Heer
The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison
Patrick Julney is one of many longtime US residents who found himself detained under hellish conditions in a country in which he’d never been formally charged with a crime.
Nov 14, 2022 / Feature / Tanvi Misra
Despite Lackluster Midterms, Donald Trump Is Still King of the GOP Despite Lackluster Midterms, Donald Trump Is Still King of the GOP
The Republican establishment was hoping to ditch Trump, but he maintains his stranglehold over the party
Nov 11, 2022 / Jeet Heer