With This Fast-Food Bill, California Could Help All Essential Workers With This Fast-Food Bill, California Could Help All Essential Workers
Gavin Newsom may have a chance to prove his commitment to the working class.
Aug 16, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Mourning the Death of Legal Choice Mourning the Death of Legal Choice
Abortion rights, 1973–2022.
Aug 16, 2022 / OppArt / Iviva Olenick
These Labor Unions Are Fighting to Keep Solitary Confinement These Labor Unions Are Fighting to Keep Solitary Confinement
A corrections officers’ union in New York is campaigning against new restrictions on solitary confinement—and it’s not the only union in the country opposing prison reforms.
Aug 16, 2022 / Victoria Law
Learning and Healing in the Archive of Black Thought Learning and Healing in the Archive of Black Thought
Farah Jasmine Griffin’s memoir Read Until You Understand doubles as a syllabus, taking readers on a personal tour through Black intellectual history.
Aug 16, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Edna Bonhomme
Democrats Are Holding Up a Bill to Protect Pregnant Workers Democrats Are Holding Up a Bill to Protect Pregnant Workers
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act has enough votes to pass if brought to the floor and would bring meaningful relief for thousands of pregnant workers.
Aug 16, 2022 / Bryce Covert
Why Serena Williams Has the Greatest Career in Sports History Why Serena Williams Has the Greatest Career in Sports History
The 37-time Grand Slam champion’s accomplishments dwarf those of Tom Brady and LeBron James because of what she had to overcome.
Aug 15, 2022 / Dave Zirin
How One Progressive City Is Fighting to Decriminalize Abortion How One Progressive City Is Fighting to Decriminalize Abortion
As part of a growing movement, municipalities like Austin are finding ways to protect their most vulnerable citizens in a post-Roe world.
Aug 15, 2022 / Mary Tuma
The Long Shadow of the Fatwa The Long Shadow of the Fatwa
We don’t know the motives behind the attack on Rushdie yet, but it is just one more threat to his life in a series of them.
Aug 15, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jeet Heer
Send Lawyers, Guns and Money! Send Lawyers, Guns and Money!
The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre steals himself.
Aug 15, 2022 / OppArt / Robbie Conal
Why Are Fossil Fuel Companies Funding Climate Change Research? Why Are Fossil Fuel Companies Funding Climate Change Research?
As oil and gas companies report record profits, the Fossil Free Research campaign calls on universities to refuse their donations and maintain independence.
Aug 15, 2022 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen