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The Anti-Vax Movement and the Medical Freedom Hustle

The Anti-Vax Movement and the Medical Freedom Hustle The Anti-Vax Movement and the Medical Freedom Hustle

How libertarians and alternative-health gurus joined forces to create today's right-wing anti-vax vanguard

Mar 24, 2023 / Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

school workers strike in LA

Why 60,000 Education Workers Walked Off the Job In Los Angeles Why 60,000 Education Workers Walked Off the Job In Los Angeles

This week’s massive jobs action also represents a model for building worker power.

Mar 24, 2023 / Alex Caputo-Pearl

You Can’t Even Tell Who’s Rich Anymore

You Can’t Even Tell Who’s Rich Anymore You Can’t Even Tell Who’s Rich Anymore

Billionaires dress like the guy next door, which elides the fact of our ever-worsening inequality.

Mar 24, 2023 / Kate Wagner

Bill Maher & Bernie Sanders

No, Bill Maher, Student Debt Cancellation Is Not a “Giveaway” No, Bill Maher, Student Debt Cancellation Is Not a “Giveaway”

The idea that borrowers would use President Biden’s student debt cancellation to fund a luxurious lifestyle is not only insensitive but out of touch with reality.

Mar 24, 2023 / StudentNation / Sabrina Cereceres

US Military

More Guns Won’t Serve the Cause of Peace More Guns Won’t Serve the Cause of Peace

The Pentagon’s soaring war budget broadcast a clear and shocking message to the world: Blessed are the war makers.

Mar 24, 2023 / William Astore

A protester holds up a long, rectangular banner that reads

Women Are Waiting to Cheer the Misogynist’s Indictment Women Are Waiting to Cheer the Misogynist’s Indictment

Donald Trump’s fall at the hands of proud porn actor Stormy Daniels would signal a rough but delightful kind of justice for millions of us.

Mar 23, 2023 / Joan Walsh

Willis Reed

Willis Reed Was the Best of New York City Willis Reed Was the Best of New York City

The death of the basketball great should remind the city of what it was, what it is, and what it should resist becoming.

Mar 23, 2023 / Dave Zirin

Keep Your Laws Off My Uterus

Keep Your Laws Off My Uterus Keep Your Laws Off My Uterus

Protect women’s rights.

Mar 23, 2023 / OppArt / Iviva Olenick

Protesters dressed with cutout faces of Biden and Putin prepare to throw nuclear weapons in the garbage

Is the US Flirting With Nuclear War? Is the US Flirting With Nuclear War?

A proxy war pitting the United States against a paranoid adversary with a massive nuclear arsenal at his command: What could possibly go wrong?

Mar 23, 2023 / Andrew J. Bacevich

A New Continuum of Art History at the Carnegie International

A New Continuum of Art History at the Carnegie International A New Continuum of Art History at the Carnegie International

The long-running exhibition of international art offers an indispensable lesson in art outside the bounds of America’s reach and a different way to see history.

Mar 23, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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