What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift
Fandom has taken on the worst of the corrupted tribalism that has dominated so much of life outside the arena, the ballpark, and the stadium.
Dec 8, 2021 / Robert Lipsyte
Today’s GOP Would Excommunicate Bob Dole Today’s GOP Would Excommunicate Bob Dole
Dole felt his party had a duty to support voting rights. But his colleagues in Congress today would rather punish those in the GOP who choose to defend democracy.
Dec 8, 2021 / John Nichols
The Right’s Bad-Faith Argument About Bodily Autonomy The Right’s Bad-Faith Argument About Bodily Autonomy
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wants to catch us in a trap where either we concede the state’s right to coerce reproduction or we abandon the state’s right to mandate vaccines.
Dec 8, 2021 / David M. Perry
Elizabeth Hardwick’s Life of the Mind Elizabeth Hardwick’s Life of the Mind
The first biography of the critic and novelist examines the personal costs of devoting oneself to intellectual pursuit.
Dec 8, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Wang
What We Get Wrong About Adoption What We Get Wrong About Adoption
Activists and political leaders promote adoption as a social good, looking past the complex experiences of adoptees and the parents who relinquish them.
Dec 7, 2021 / Gretchen Sisson and Jessica M. Harrison
New Corona Variants = More Deaths New Corona Variants = More Deaths
Protest against mandates = more variants.
Dec 7, 2021 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards
The Global Far Right Is Alive and Kicking The Global Far Right Is Alive and Kicking
And it hasn’t had this kind of opportunity for global expansion since fascism’s heyday in the 1930s.
Dec 7, 2021 / John Feffer
The Export Boom That Could Transform Texas—and the World The Export Boom That Could Transform Texas—and the World
The United States’ oil and gas export boom has been a decade in the making. All along the Texas coast, communities are fighting back against the industry’s expansion.
Dec 7, 2021 / Amal Ahmed
When Did Postmodernism End? When Did Postmodernism End?
A new book by Stuart Jeffries claims we never left behind this heady, late-20th-century period of cultural and political expression.
Dec 7, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Marzoni
Jessica Cisneros Is the Future of the Democratic Party Jessica Cisneros Is the Future of the Democratic Party
A conversation with the 28-year-old human rights attorney, who will be facing one of the last anti-abortion, pro-gun Democrats left in Congress.
Dec 7, 2021 / Aída Chávez