Two Cheers for the Free Press Two Cheers for the Free Press
And why Democratic attempts to cure excesses through censorship are not only wrong but stupid.
Jul 29, 2021 / Column / Benjamin Moser
Tokyo’s Games Are Harming the Nuclear Weapons Ban Movement Tokyo’s Games Are Harming the Nuclear Weapons Ban Movement
By paying lip service to the Fukushima disaster and the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan, these games are downplaying the growing danger of nuclear catastrophe.
Jul 29, 2021 / Alyn Ware
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Viruses? What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Viruses?
As in previous pandemics, a rise in xenophobic, nationalistic, and militaristic language has returned amid the Covid-19 crisis.
Jul 29, 2021 / StudentNation / Zoya Qureshi
What the Harlem Cultural Festival Represented What the Harlem Cultural Festival Represented
Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary Summer of Soul, revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.
Jul 29, 2021 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
Democrats Must Control the Crime Narrative Before It Controls Them Democrats Must Control the Crime Narrative Before It Controls Them
Democrats should offer their own 21st-century vision for reducing crime.
Jul 28, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Trouble With ‘the LGBT Community’ The Trouble With ‘the LGBT Community’
Under capitalism, LGBT has become a convenient acronym to sell rainbow flags and political candidates.
Jul 28, 2021 / Rasha Younes
Democrats Are Sticking to Trump’s Cuba Policies Democrats Are Sticking to Trump’s Cuba Policies
Party leadership blocked an amendment to roll back restrictions on the amount of money people in the US can send to their families in Cuba.
Jul 28, 2021 / Aída Chávez
America Isn’t ‘Back.’ Here’s Why. America Isn’t ‘Back.’ Here’s Why.
Two decades of forever wars created a failing empire. Biden’s foreign policy is just continuing the destructive legacy.
Jul 28, 2021 / Tom Engelhardt
Diagnosing the Morales Campaign Meltdown Diagnosing the Morales Campaign Meltdown
It all sounds like a bad family therapy session. What does the psychiatric literature have to say?
Jul 28, 2021 / Column / Alexis Grenell