Decoding a Homeland Security Leak Decoding a Homeland Security Leak
An intelligence report on threats to the 2020 election, translated into plain English.
Sep 22, 2020 / Ken Klippenstein
A Collective Art Project to Support Your Local Post Office A Collective Art Project to Support Your Local Post Office
Postcards for Democracy! Because we need the Postal Service on Election Day and every day.
Sep 22, 2020 / Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe
In the UK, Climate Isn’t a Political Issue. That’s a Problem. In the UK, Climate Isn’t a Political Issue. That’s a Problem.
The choice we face in responding to the climate crisis is between a just transition—and just a transition.
Sep 22, 2020 / Feature / Daniel Judt
Tea Tea
I can’t get away from it. Felted-up reenactors shoving a great fake crate of it into the Harbor and jeering. After the tour group leaves, they fish it back out and towel it off, un…
Sep 22, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Natalie Shapero
Apocryphal Apocryphal
You made me crude because you were afraid and too easily in awe— but I also loved that about you, the sincerity of your love, the centrality of your worry. Had I intervened to priv…
Sep 22, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Phelps
Letters From the October 5/12, 2020, Issue Letters From the October 5/12, 2020, Issue
Neoliberalism isn’t working… The real Norma Rae…
Sep 22, 2020 / Our Readers
First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror
Climate change made Hurricane Dorian a monster that pummeled the Bahamas’s Haitian minority. Human cruelty made its aftermath brutal. Both could have been prevented.
Sep 22, 2020 / Feature / Sonia Shah
At a Military Cemetery, Trump Reflects on His Only War Hero At a Military Cemetery, Trump Reflects on His Only War Hero
He was the very model of a neighborhood podiatrist. For he could find the bone spurs that these losers’ doctors always missed. So if your name was on the list of those he needed to…
Sep 22, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Mitch McConnell Defends His Turf Mitch McConnell Defends His Turf
Can a political newcomer unseat Kentucky’s most aggressive campaigner?
Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland
Homeland Security has not yet come clean to the public about the full extent of its intelligence operations in Portland.
Sep 21, 2020 / Ken Klippenstein