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A Day at the Beach

A Day at the Beach A Day at the Beach

An ocean of trash.

Aug 26, 2022 / OppArt / Robin McCarthy

Rationing of Medical Equipment Is Costing Disabled People Their Lives

Rationing of Medical Equipment Is Costing Disabled People Their Lives Rationing of Medical Equipment Is Costing Disabled People Their Lives

With the government refusing to make medicine and medical equipment accessible, sick, and disabled people have to rely on each other for support. 

Aug 26, 2022 / First Person / Nolan Trowe

Val Demings’s Abortion Rights Advocacy Just May Sink Marco Rubio

Val Demings’s Abortion Rights Advocacy Just May Sink Marco Rubio Val Demings’s Abortion Rights Advocacy Just May Sink Marco Rubio

Demings has distinguished herself from the incumbent on a range of issues, most notably on abortion rights.

Aug 25, 2022 / John Nichols

A police looks at a series of row of monitors.

Defund the Police Algorithms Defund the Police Algorithms

Law enforcement is increasingly turning to software to surveil and anticipate crime. But a grassroots movement is emerging to resist algorithmic policing.

Aug 25, 2022 / Michelle Chen

Censored!

Censored! Censored!

Overreach to whitewash education.

Aug 25, 2022 / OppArt / Sue Coe

Searching for Local Identity in “The Bear” and “Chicago Party Aunt”

Searching for Local Identity in “The Bear” and “Chicago Party Aunt” Searching for Local Identity in “The Bear” and “Chicago Party Aunt”

The FX drama and Netflix animation both attempt to embody the city of Chicago. That’s an increasingly difficult task when the city itself is a jumbled simulacrum of its own past.

Aug 25, 2022 / Ryan Zickgraf

Golf’s Sportswashing of Saudi Arabia

Golf’s Sportswashing of Saudi Arabia Golf’s Sportswashing of Saudi Arabia

Not since the 1936 Berlin Olympics was used to cosmeticize Nazi Germany’s atrocities have sports and an otherwise despised government collaborated so blatantly.

Aug 25, 2022 / Robert Lipsyte

Chris Lehmann

“The Nation” Names Chris Lehmann as D.C. Bureau Chief “The Nation” Names Chris Lehmann as D.C. Bureau Chief

With decades of experience, the former editor of The New Republic and The Baffler joins at a crucial juncture in advance of the midterm elections, in a country facing a crisis of d...

Aug 25, 2022 / Press Room

Mónica Ramírez

Transforming the Narrative of the Latinx Community Transforming the Narrative of the Latinx Community

A conversation with organizer Mónica Ramírez, the founder of Justice for Migrant Women, on the goals of the Latinx House’s upcoming Raizado Festival.

Aug 25, 2022 / StudentNation / Mara Marques Cavallaro

“El Gran Movimiento” Is a Masterful Portrait of Capitalism at Work

“El Gran Movimiento” Is a Masterful Portrait of Capitalism at Work “El Gran Movimiento” Is a Masterful Portrait of Capitalism at Work

Kiro Russo’s new film takes us to La Paz, following unemployed miners, mystics, and others hoping to find solace in the shadow of a rotten economy.

Aug 25, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Eli Rudavsky

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