The Olympics Have Turned Paris Into a Panopticon The Olympics Have Turned Paris Into a Panopticon
The omnipresent high-tech surveillance introduced for the Games normalizes incursions on civil liberties.
Jul 31, 2024 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin
It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive
Bisan Owda is a Palestinian journalist, activist, and filmmaker, best known for her social-media videos documenting her experiences in Gaza.
Jul 31, 2024 / OppArt / Rosa Borrás
Hochul Is Using Public Money to Defend Cuomo Hochul Is Using Public Money to Defend Cuomo
New York’s governor has retained a firm to challenge her own attorney general’s report on her disgraced predecessor’s predations.
Jul 31, 2024 / Column / Alexis Grenell
The Strippers’ Union Faces Employers’ Trump Card The Strippers’ Union Faces Employers’ Trump Card
Hell-bent on stopping workers from unionizing, employers will sometimes shut down a location or an entire business—that’s what happened at the Star Garden topless bar in LA.
Jul 31, 2024 / Bryce Covert
The Maduro Government Is Probably Stealing the Election in Venezuela The Maduro Government Is Probably Stealing the Election in Venezuela
But maintaining economic warfare by the US—including sanctions—only hurts the Venezuelan people.
Jul 30, 2024 / James North
How Biden’s Court Reform Proposals Could Work—if the Court Would Let Them How Biden’s Court Reform Proposals Could Work—if the Court Would Let Them
The president’s trio of reforms marks a worthy first step, but it doesn’t go nearly far enough to reverse the right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court.
Jul 30, 2024 / Elie Mystal
Kamala Harris Has a Chance to Electrify the Court Reform Debate Kamala Harris Has a Chance to Electrify the Court Reform Debate
After a century-long fight to make Supreme Court justices more accountable, 2024 might finally see voters empower a president and a Congress to end “judicial oligarchy.”
Jul 30, 2024 / John Nichols
How Harris Can Make America Democratic Again How Harris Can Make America Democratic Again
Biden wisely passed the torch to someone who can counter the MAGA call.
Jul 30, 2024 / D.D. Guttenplan
Will Leonard Peltier Die In Prison? Will Leonard Peltier Die In Prison?
After being denied parole yet again, one of America’s longest-serving political prisoners is running out of options.
Jul 29, 2024 / Sarah Baum
