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A family in masks taking pictures on smartphone.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year—From Covid Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year—From Covid

If we want to mitigate the great existential threats to our survival—from microbes to the warming planet—we’re going to need bolder thinking than “getting back to normal.”

Dec 27, 2023 / Gregg Gonsalves

Cease Fire!

Cease Fire! Cease Fire!

Mounting civilian death toll to what end?

Dec 26, 2023 / OppArt / Sue Coe

Oil pumpjacks

Big Oil Is Greenwashing the Planet Big Oil Is Greenwashing the Planet

The hosting of the recent COP28 climate summit by the United Arab Emirates is just one instance.

Dec 26, 2023 / Juan Cole

A US border patrol agent on patrol near La Joya, Tex., 2013.

The Indefensible Job of Policing the Border The Indefensible Job of Policing the Border

Against the Wall, a former border officer’s memoir, argues that when it comes to protecting the border, cruelty is the point.

Dec 26, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Caroline Tracey

Peace, Now!

Peace, Now! Peace, Now!

Focus on love, compassion, humanity.

Dec 25, 2023 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

James Stewart, as George Bailey, points at Lionel Barrymore in a scene from “It's a Wonderful Life.”

Whose “It’s a Wonderful Life” Is It Anyway? Whose “It’s a Wonderful Life” Is It Anyway?

How everybody’s favorite Christmas movie about the perils of monopoly capitalism became a victim of monopoly capitalism.

Dec 25, 2023 / Ray Nowosielski and David Cassidy

The Nativity scene shows baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh and placed in a pile of rubble to show solidarity with the people of Gaza on December 18, 2023 in the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, West Bank.

Will This Be the Last Christmas for Gaza’s Christian Communities? Will This Be the Last Christmas for Gaza’s Christian Communities?

Gaza has some of the world’s oldest Christian communities, yet Palestinian Christians say Israeli strikes put them “under threat of extinction.”

Dec 25, 2023 / John Nichols

Tomb of Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery in London, 1954.

An Introduction to Marxism Unlike Any Other An Introduction to Marxism Unlike Any Other

Søren Mau’s Mute Compulsion offers a unique and relatable entry into the social and economic dimensions of modern Marxist thought.

Dec 25, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Matt McManus

Blood Poison

Blood Poison Blood Poison

Chaos agents.

Dec 22, 2023 / Steve Brodner

From left, Representatives Elissa Slotkin, Chrissy Houlahan, Mikie Sherrill, and Abigail Spanberger participate in a panel discussion during the DNC Women's Leadership Forum conference in Washington, D.C., on October 17, 2019.

The Street and the Elite Can Unite to End Israel’s Criminal War The Street and the Elite Can Unite to End Israel’s Criminal War

Both realists and idealists realize that Biden’s carte blanche policy of support for Netanyahu is hurting America.

Dec 22, 2023 / Jeet Heer

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