The Texas Abortion Ban Could Usher in a Wave of Pregnancy-Related Deaths The Texas Abortion Ban Could Usher in a Wave of Pregnancy-Related Deaths
“When you deny people the opportunity to have a safe abortion procedure and replace it with the higher risk of continuing pregnancies, more people are going to die.”
Jan 13, 2022 / Mary Tuma
Automated Warfare Is Nothing New Automated Warfare Is Nothing New
It didn’t just start with drones—and it won’t stop with them.
Jan 13, 2022 / Rebecca Gordon
Madison Cawthorn’s Incitement of Insurrection Should Knock Him Off the Ballot Madison Cawthorn’s Incitement of Insurrection Should Knock Him Off the Ballot
The Republican representative’s words and deeds disqualify him from office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Jan 13, 2022 / John Nichols
Strange and Intimate Encounters With Kathy Acker Strange and Intimate Encounters With Kathy Acker
In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark revisits Acker’s work to fashion a different kind of literary theory—one more personal and erotic.
Jan 13, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Alyse Burnside
Lani Guinier Taught Me Almost Everything I Know About Voting Rights Lani Guinier Taught Me Almost Everything I Know About Voting Rights
A brilliant professor, she showed me how the old Confederacy never really gave up—not after the Civil War, not after the Voting Rights Act, not ever.
Jan 12, 2022 / Elie Mystal
Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering
The poet’s memoir Generations is both a chronicle of her ancestral lineage and lesson in the centrality of Black women to the story of American history.
Jan 12, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Marina Magloire
It’s Time to Hold Law Firms Accountable for Their Role in Climate Change It’s Time to Hold Law Firms Accountable for Their Role in Climate Change
Students are boycotting Gibson Dunn for representing the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, undermining the Indian Child Welfare Act, and more.
Jan 12, 2022 / StudentNation / Leehi Yona and David Cremins
The “Credibility” Factor and Biden’s Foreign Crises The “Credibility” Factor and Biden’s Foreign Crises
The US must resist the impulse to intervene in Ukraine, Taiwan, and Iran.
Jan 12, 2022 / Michael T. Klare
How the Left Alienates Jews How the Left Alienates Jews
Jewish voices are too often excluded from precisely the conversations they should be leading.
Jan 12, 2022 / Column / Alexis Grenell