Abortion Wins Elections for Democrats. What Should Advocates Demand in Return? Abortion Wins Elections for Democrats. What Should Advocates Demand in Return?
How can this popularity translate into political power for a movement that is not accustomed to making bold demands of its political leaders?
Nov 20, 2023 / Amy Littlefield
Should America Keep Celebrating Thanksgiving? Should America Keep Celebrating Thanksgiving?
Sean Sherman argues that we need to decolonize Thanksgiving, while Chase Iron Eyes calls for replacing Thanksgiving with a “Truthsgiving.”
Nov 20, 2023 / The Debate / Sean Sherman and Chase Iron Eyes
In California Schools, Palestinian History Is Off-Limits In California Schools, Palestinian History Is Off-Limits
After backlash from pro-Israel organizations, Santa Ana’s ethnic studies courses discussing Palestine were put on hold. “You’re asking us to erase a people off the face of the ear...
Nov 20, 2023 / StudentNation / Shaanth Nanguneri
How Gender Is Policed in America How Gender Is Policed in America
Paisley Currah’s wide-ranging study Sex Is as Sex Does examines how transphobia emerged in America as a result of contradictory and self-serving sex classification policies.
Nov 20, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Sam Huber
The Thing You Fear Is Not the Thing That Kills You The Thing You Fear Is Not the Thing That Kills You
Nov 20, 2023 / Poems / Christina Olson
If Only AR-15 Murder-Scene Photos Would Bring About an Assault Weapons Ban If Only AR-15 Murder-Scene Photos Would Bring About an Assault Weapons Ban
Washington Post leaders thought they were doing right by showing the carnage those weapons of war create. But we already knew that.
Nov 17, 2023 / Joan Walsh
Israel’s Ludicrous Propaganda Wins Over the Only Audience That Counts Israel’s Ludicrous Propaganda Wins Over the Only Audience That Counts
Why make an effort to be credible if you’re going to be uncritically echoed by the White House and Western press?
Nov 17, 2023 / Jeet Heer
San Francisco’s Potemkin Village San Francisco’s Potemkin Village
For President Biden’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC summit in San Francisco this week, Governor Gavin Newsom transformed the city into a façade of prosperi...
Nov 17, 2023 / Sasha Abramsky
Mike Johnson, Undoing the Constitution Mike Johnson, Undoing the Constitution
New speaker vs. separation of church and state.
Nov 17, 2023 / OppArt / Peter Kuper