William Barr Is Acting as Trump’s Defense Lawyer, Not Attorney General William Barr Is Acting as Trump’s Defense Lawyer, Not Attorney General
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing confirmed one thing: The United States does not currently, in any practical or realistic sense, have an attorney general.
May 1, 2019 / John Nichols
Mueller’s Own Mysteries Mueller’s Own Mysteries
Little-noted aspects of the first volume of the Mueller report.
May 1, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen
A Louisiana Court Is Trying to Silence Black Lives Matter’s DeRay Mckesson A Louisiana Court Is Trying to Silence Black Lives Matter’s DeRay Mckesson
The message to black people: They can come for us at any time.
May 1, 2019 / Elie Mystal
Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 Novel About Filipino Migrant Workers Is Still Groundbreaking Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 Novel About Filipino Migrant Workers Is Still Groundbreaking
When we read a book like America Is in the Heart, we have the chance to be not just readers of American history’s horrors, but its witnesses and inheritors.
May 1, 2019 / Elaine Castillo
Saidiya Hartman’s Astounding History of the Forgotten Sexual Modernists in 20th-Century Black Life Saidiya Hartman’s Astounding History of the Forgotten Sexual Modernists in 20th-Century Black Life
In her new book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, she looks at everyday life for urban black women and in the process pioneers a stirring new way to write history.
May 1, 2019 / Sam Huber
May Day! May Day! May Day! May Day!
Equal pay for equal work. NOW!
May 1, 2019 / OppArt / Scott Laserow
Why South Africans Are Talking About Land Expropriation Why South Africans Are Talking About Land Expropriation
A quarter-century after apartheid’s end, cities are overcrowded, and black citizens own a tiny fraction of their country’s farmland.
May 1, 2019 / Jon Allsop
Max Fine Spent His Life Trying to Create a Better Health-Care System Max Fine Spent His Life Trying to Create a Better Health-Care System
Fine, who was the last surviving member of JFK’s Medicare Task Force, always believed that health care is a human right.
Apr 30, 2019 / Carl Ginsburg
Billionaires Can Rebuild the Past, but Their Wealth Can’t Fix the Future Billionaires Can Rebuild the Past, but Their Wealth Can’t Fix the Future
To save the environment and curb climate change, we need to transform the economy that allows for billionaires to exist in the first place.
Apr 30, 2019 / Emilie Prattico
The Pentagon’s Long Con The Pentagon’s Long Con
The US military-industrial complex has been swindling Americans for decades.
Apr 30, 2019 / William Astore