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Americans Don’t Have the Luxury of Being Picky Eaters Anymore

Americans Don’t Have the Luxury of Being Picky Eaters Anymore Americans Don’t Have the Luxury of Being Picky Eaters Anymore

We’ve been spoiled rotten, but the days of avocados in December are over.

Apr 7, 2022 / Malcolm Harris

193 Heartless Bastards in the House of Representatives

193 Heartless Bastards in the House of Representatives 193 Heartless Bastards in the House of Representatives

Most House Republicans voted against capping insulin costs. Why? They defended the right of greedy capitalists to be greedy capitalists.

Apr 7, 2022 / John Nichols

Student holding phone

Do Campus Crime Alerts Keep Students Safe? Do Campus Crime Alerts Keep Students Safe?

Timely Warning notifications were designed to provide community members with important information during an emergency, but there are unintended consequences.

Apr 7, 2022 / StudentNation / Charlotte Rubin

SCOTUS nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Ketanji Brown Jackson Strategy The Ketanji Brown Jackson Strategy

By championing racial equality in the form of putting a Black woman on the Supreme Court, Democrats have energized their base and garnered the support of the American people.

Apr 7, 2022 / Steve Phillips

The Hollow Narrative of HBO’s “Gilded Age”

The Hollow Narrative of HBO’s “Gilded Age” The Hollow Narrative of HBO’s “Gilded Age”

The TV show is guilty of the greatest crime any fiction about the 19th century can commit—not getting it wrong, but making it dull.

Apr 7, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jake Bittle

The Bad Aftertaste of the NCAA Men’s Tournament

The Bad Aftertaste of the NCAA Men’s Tournament The Bad Aftertaste of the NCAA Men’s Tournament

The North Carolina Tar Heels seemed to come apart physically, and the grown-ups just stood around and watched.

Apr 6, 2022 / Dave Zirin

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Ketanji Brown Jackson Ketanji Brown Jackson

Wisdom. Courage. Grace.

Apr 6, 2022 / OppArt / Colleen Quinn

US Navy Pacific Ocean

What Will It Take to Shrink the Pentagon’s Budget? What Will It Take to Shrink the Pentagon’s Budget?

We have now reached the point in our collective history where we face three certainties: death, taxes, and ever-soaring spending on weaponry and war.

Apr 6, 2022 / William Astore

Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Smearing of Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Haunt Democrats The Smearing of Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Haunt Democrats

Republicans used her confirmation hearing to mainstream the notion that Democrats protect pedophiles—a sexual panic strategy aimed at the November midterms and beyond.

Apr 6, 2022 / Joan Walsh

A tank on a road, with scattered soldiers walking alongside it.

How Kherson Was Occupied How Kherson Was Occupied

What Novaya Gazeta’s reporter Elena Kostyuchenko saw with her own eyes.

Apr 6, 2022 / Elena Kostyuchenko

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