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Protecting Survivors of Human Trafficking in New York Protecting Survivors of Human Trafficking in New York

Language and cultural barriers have left the population of East Asian women who have been trafficked underserved. Crossing those barriers takes dedicated work.

Mar 15, 2023 / Karen Ng

Photos of Savita Halappanavar with the inscriptions

“She Had a Heartbeat Too”: Waiting for One Dead Woman “She Had a Heartbeat Too”: Waiting for One Dead Woman

In Ireland, the death of Savita Halappanavar, who developed sepsis after being denied an abortion, catalyzed a revolution in the country’s abortion laws. Will the same happen here?

Mar 14, 2023 / Amy Littlefield

Greene Robes

Greene Robes Greene Robes

Smart Tayloring.

Mar 14, 2023 / OppArt / Colleen Quinn and Karen Blumberg

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of Arkansas, speaks while delivering the Republican response to President Biden's State of the Union address on February 7, 2023.

The GOP Has Become the Pro–Child Labor Party The GOP Has Become the Pro–Child Labor Party

How a new economy of exploitation is rolling back protections—for profit.

Mar 14, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

James Ensor's “L'Intrigue,” 1890

Down and Out in Paris With Rainer Maria Rilke Down and Out in Paris With Rainer Maria Rilke

In The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, the German poet’s only novel, a young artist contends with the contradictions of urban experience and the dream of pastoral life 

Mar 14, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Ratik Asokan

The Creative, Collective, Queer Project of Raving

The Creative, Collective, Queer Project of Raving The Creative, Collective, Queer Project of Raving

In an interview, McKenzie Wark offers insight on the rave as utopia, breaking through gender dysphoria, and her newest work of auto-theory.

Mar 14, 2023 / Q&A / Zoë Beery and Geoffrey Mak

Kanye West

How Kanye West Helped to Embolden Anti-Semites on College Campuses How Kanye West Helped to Embolden Anti-Semites on College Campuses

The ADL recently tracked around 30 cases of anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism, and banner drops that directly reference Ye, many of which took place at high schools and universiti...

Mar 14, 2023 / StudentNation / Zurie Pope

Bankers Lobbied for Deregulation, Congress Capitulated, and Now Banks Are Collapsing

Bankers Lobbied for Deregulation, Congress Capitulated, and Now Banks Are Collapsing Bankers Lobbied for Deregulation, Congress Capitulated, and Now Banks Are Collapsing

The Silicon Valley Bank collapse doesn’t require a bailout. It requires stronger bank oversight and the repeal of the 2018 “economic growth” act.

Mar 14, 2023 / John Nichols

Former vice president Mike Pence at the Library of Congress

Stop Trying to Make Mike Pence Happen! Stop Trying to Make Mike Pence Happen!

His hypocritical, homophobic Gridiron speech, larded with dad jokes, was supposed to rebrand him for 2024 as the fun fascist. There’s no such thing.

Mar 13, 2023 / Joan Walsh

Twenty Years Ago, the United States Was Putin

Twenty Years Ago, the United States Was Putin Twenty Years Ago, the United States Was Putin

We should condemn Russian crimes in Ukraine, but not while conveniently forgetting the crimes we committed in Iraq.

Mar 13, 2023 / Juan Cole

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