The American Media’s Approach to War Coverage Needs to Be Fundamentally Reimagined The American Media’s Approach to War Coverage Needs to Be Fundamentally Reimagined
We need more reporting on forgotten conflicts—and more stories that spotlight how war ravages people and leads to atrocities.
Apr 19, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Right Targets Queer Theory The Right Targets Queer Theory
Christopher Rufo, the man behind the moral panic over “critical race theory,” has fabricated another foe.
Apr 19, 2022 / Candace Bond-Theriault with The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School
The Pentagon Is Cashing In on the Ukraine Crisis The Pentagon Is Cashing In on the Ukraine Crisis
The new gold rush of defense spending is a disaster in the making.
Apr 19, 2022 / William D. Hartung and Julia Gledhill
Tom Cotton, Legal Scholar Tom Cotton, Legal Scholar
Tom Cotton, a man with two Harvard degrees, attacked Ketanji Brown Jackson for representing a defendant accused of terrorism. —news reports Tom Cotton doesn’t seem to be aware That…
Apr 19, 2022 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Without Clinic Escorts, Abortion Would Be Even Harder to Access Without Clinic Escorts, Abortion Would Be Even Harder to Access
Lauren Rankin’s new book about abortion clinic escorts, Bodies on the Line, shows how much ordinary people can do to ensure that abortion is accessible in America.
Apr 19, 2022 / Q&A / Amy Littlefield
Couplets Couplets
I became myself. I became myself. No, I always was myself. There’s no such person as myself. I wouldn’t have to turn my eye inward, I thought, if I could train my eye on him—the on…
Apr 19, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Maggie Millner
The Many Lives of Billy Wilder The Many Lives of Billy Wilder
From Galicia to Berlin to Paris and eventually to Hollywood, the prolific director and screenwriter never let go of what proved to be his most formative experience: being in a stat...
Apr 19, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg
“The Great Resignation” Is a Great Exaggeration “The Great Resignation” Is a Great Exaggeration
Workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers, but it’s not a turning point for labor power.
Apr 18, 2022 / Ann Larson