The Presidential Candidates Should Debate Union Rights in Chattanooga The Presidential Candidates Should Debate Union Rights in Chattanooga
Members of UAW Local 42 want collective-bargaining rights at the Volkswagen plant. Where better to debate about labor rights, unions and the future of work?
Apr 11, 2019 / John Nichols
How ‘Russiagate’ Has Reshaped American and Russian Public Opinion How ‘Russiagate’ Has Reshaped American and Russian Public Opinion
As a new study reveals growing distrust between the populations of the two countries, citizen diplomacy becomes all the more important.
Apr 11, 2019 / James Carden
What ‘Living in Truth’ Looks Like in the Face of Climate Catastrophe What ‘Living in Truth’ Looks Like in the Face of Climate Catastrophe
Bill McKibben has shown us what it means to live within the truth of our struggle for human survival. Will a new generation find the courage to do the same?
Apr 11, 2019 / Wen Stephenson
‘Love After Lockup’ and Its Subtle Message of Prison Abolition ‘Love After Lockup’ and Its Subtle Message of Prison Abolition
An insightful look into reentry for the newly freed, the reality TV show puts into stark relief the injustice of the criminal-justice system.
Apr 11, 2019 / Malcolm Harris
Halle Butler’s Millennial Workplace Novel Has All the Precarity and None of the Pathos Halle Butler’s Millennial Workplace Novel Has All the Precarity and None of the Pathos
The New Me and other recent novels use millennial tropes as shortcuts to generational fatigue.
Apr 11, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Katie Bloom
It’s Time to Stop Pretending the Murdochs Are in the News Business It’s Time to Stop Pretending the Murdochs Are in the News Business
For Rupert and his sons, the press has always been the prime weapon in their power-seeking agenda.
Apr 11, 2019 / Column / Eric Alterman
Puzzle No. 3496 Puzzle No. 3496
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Curry specialty: pintos, cooked and spicy (5,4) 6 Flip about knight (one getting out of bed) (5) 9 Progressive, s…
Apr 11, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Kirsten Gillibrand Isn’t Afraid of Anything Kirsten Gillibrand Isn’t Afraid of Anything
The New York senator is a Medicare for All, Green New Deal progressive who wants to win over Trump’s voters. Can she convince Democrats to give her a shot?
Apr 11, 2019 / Feature / Joan Walsh
See No Climate Change? See No Climate Change?
What’s evil is denial. (From the DC Climate March.)
Kirsten Gillibrand’s Journey to the Left Kirsten Gillibrand’s Journey to the Left
Joan Walsh on the candidate, Eric Foner on Reconstruction, and Amy Wilentz on Jared Kushner.
Apr 11, 2019 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener