Women of Color and the Hidden Trauma of Police Brutality Women of Color and the Hidden Trauma of Police Brutality
Calling out discrimination can be a slippery thing, but the shame, humiliation and powerlessness we feel because of overly aggressive policing is real.
Sep 16, 2014 / Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits? Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?
Talking heads like former General Jack Keane are all over the news media fanning fears of IS. Shouldn’t the public know about their links to Pentagon contractors?
Sep 16, 2014 / Lee Fang
Comix Nation Comix Nation
Sep 16, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow
Snapshot: A Hard Rain in a Changing Climate Snapshot: A Hard Rain in a Changing Climate
Residents of Indian-administered Kashmir struggle against a strong current after incessant rains inundated the region, causing the worst flooding in decades. The floods have caused over 500 deaths, and over 500,000 people have needed to be rescued. Another 75,000 people are still waiting to be rescued a week after the flooding began.
Sep 16, 2014 / Dar Yasin
Climate Change Is a People’s Shock Climate Change Is a People’s Shock
What if, instead of accepting a future of climate catastrophe and private profits, we decide to change everything?
Sep 16, 2014 / Naomi Klein
Whatever Happened to Gun Control? Whatever Happened to Gun Control?
The Newtown tragedy was supposed to change everything about gun politics. Why it didn’t—and how reformers might still win.
Sep 16, 2014 / George Zornick
What Is India? What Is India?
Why India’s boom years have been a bust.
Sep 16, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb
Gordimer’s Way Gordimer’s Way
The Nobel laureate’s short stories are her lasting legacy to the literary world.
Sep 16, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Tony Eprile
Shelf Life Shelf Life
The secret history of invisible ink.
Sep 16, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Peter C. Baker
Ghosting Around Ghosting Around
In the stories of Kjell Askildsen, all that the men want is to be unseen.
Sep 16, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier