The Oscars: Awkward Spectacle The Oscars: Awkward Spectacle
The Academy Awards felt like a hyperactive fever dream, but really it was just a terribly engineered event that reeked of neediness and obsolescence and that was given its sole mom...
Mar 30, 2022 / Vikram Murthi
Mexico Takes on the the United States’ Gun Goliaths Mexico Takes on the the United States’ Gun Goliaths
The Mexican government’s lawsuit against US gun manufacturers may be a long shot. But if it succeeds, it could completely change the terrain in the fight to combat gun crime in bot...
Mar 29, 2022 / Bill Gallegos
Covid-19 Coverage for the Uninsured Is Ending Covid-19 Coverage for the Uninsured Is Ending
With a new surge on the horizon, federal funds for treatment and testing will no longer be made available for the most vulnerable population.
Mar 29, 2022 / Adam Gaffney
Climate Research Shouldn’t Be Funded by Fossil Fuel Companies Climate Research Shouldn’t Be Funded by Fossil Fuel Companies
The oil and gas industry uses universities to influence environmental policy. Here’s how we fight back.
Mar 29, 2022 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen and Jake Lowe
For the Sake of Humanity, Let’s Abandon American Exceptionalism For the Sake of Humanity, Let’s Abandon American Exceptionalism
It’s useless in the face of climate change.
Mar 29, 2022 / Aviva Chomsky
BuzzFeed Doesn’t Deserve Its Newsroom BuzzFeed Doesn’t Deserve Its Newsroom
Much of the News staff has been written off as dead weight on the payroll. What, after all, is a Pulitzer worth on a balance sheet?
Mar 29, 2022 / Rachel Sanders
Landscapes of the Mind Landscapes of the Mind
On Joseph E. Yoakum and Etel Adnan.
Mar 29, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Tactical Silence Has Failed: Say Brittney Griner’s Name The Tactical Silence Has Failed: Say Brittney Griner’s Name
The State Department believes that raising up the basketball star’s name will make her situation in a Russian prison worse. She could be sentenced to a labor camp. How much worse c...
Mar 28, 2022 / Dave Zirin
The Ongoing Russian Resistance to Putin’s War The Ongoing Russian Resistance to Putin’s War
Reports on the opposition to war inside Russia: What’s happened since February 27, 2022.
Mar 28, 2022 / Finley Muratova