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Lowell Handler

Was This Professor Fired for Having Tourette Syndrome? Was This Professor Fired for Having Tourette Syndrome?

We want to ensure harassment-free climates in schools and workplaces, and we want to protect the rights of people with disabilities. What happens when these imperatives collide?

Nov 15, 2022 / Feature / Barry Yeoman

Nation Poetry

The Limits of Language The Limits of Language

it was something about the bounce in my step, in the rippling jiggle of my belly & breasts, something about the periwinkle painted pinkies, the purple pointers, the chipping it…

Nov 15, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Aerik Francis

Paris Commune, 1871.

The Life and Afterlife of the Paris Commune The Life and Afterlife of the Paris Commune

It was one of the most radical political experiments in European history. It was also one of Europe’s most tragically short-lived.

Nov 15, 2022 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 11, 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

Rich, Polluting Nations Must Pay Up Rich, Polluting Nations Must Pay Up

As a bare minimum, a windfall tax on the combined profits of the largest oil and gas companies needs to be enacted.

Nov 15, 2022 / Various Contributors

Money From Nothing: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Shakedown

Money From Nothing: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Shakedown Money From Nothing: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Shakedown

The late crypto platform FTX was a clearinghouse of info-capitalist delusion.

Nov 14, 2022 / Feature / Timi Iwayemi

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) speaks at a press conference to discuss his runoff campaign in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 10, 2022.

Georgia Isn’t Just Gravy Georgia Isn’t Just Gravy

Democrats can do a lot more with 51 Senate seats.

Nov 14, 2022 / Jeet Heer

Feral GOP

Feral GOP Feral GOP

Faces off.

Nov 14, 2022 / OppArt / Tom Bachtell

Pedestrians wearing protective masks pass in front of Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.

Doctors Finally Join the Labor Movement Doctors Finally Join the Labor Movement

A challenge to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx by a broad coalition of its own workers is a frontline struggle against the most exploitative tendencies of the whole industry.

Nov 14, 2022 / Karim Sariahmed

The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison

The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison

Patrick Julney is one of many longtime US residents who found himself detained under hellish conditions in a country in which he’d never been formally charged with a crime.

Nov 14, 2022 / Feature / Tanvi Misra

Ian McEwan’s 20th Century

Ian McEwan’s 20th Century Ian McEwan’s 20th Century

In his new novel, McEwan ruefully looks back at a Britain that no longer exists.

Nov 14, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Chihaya

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