Biden’s Plan for Central America Is a Smokescreen Biden’s Plan for Central America Is a Smokescreen
The US government looks to continue militarizing borders in Mexico and Central America, effectively kettling migrants looking to escape poverty and violence.
Apr 1, 2021 / Aviva Chomsky
Biden’s ‘Transformative’ Plan Redefines Infrastructure to Include Caregiving Biden’s ‘Transformative’ Plan Redefines Infrastructure to Include Caregiving
Biden wants to put $400 billion toward expanding quality home or community care. Ai-jen Poo tells The Nation that’s “historic” progress.
Apr 1, 2021 / John Nichols
Politicizing Science Politicizing Science
Anti-vax vs. covid reality.
The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism
Why the oldest hatred needs a new definition.
Apr 1, 2021 / Brian Klug
It’s Important I Remember That There’s a Difference Between a Human Being and a Person— It’s Important I Remember That There’s a Difference Between a Human Being and a Person—
which comes to mind each time I see them kiss a dog on the mouth. N A dog’s mouth is cleaner than a human’s only because our best friends cannot say the things acquaintances do abo…
Apr 1, 2021 / Poems / Cortney Lamar Charleston
Dr. Seuss’s Mistakes Are the Least of Our Troubles Dr. Seuss’s Mistakes Are the Least of Our Troubles
If we insist on holding cultural history to contemporary standards, what will we have left?
Apr 1, 2021 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Everything You Need to Know About Georgia’s New Anti-Voting Law Everything You Need to Know About Georgia’s New Anti-Voting Law
It’s tailor-made to stop the expansion of the electorate that doomed Republicans in 2020 and 2021. Here’s how to fight back.
Apr 1, 2021 / Joan Walsh
Leonora Carrington’s Irreverent Dreamscapes Leonora Carrington’s Irreverent Dreamscapes
The surrealist painter’s only novel, The Hearing Trumpet, is a wily, epicurean, and hilariously scattershot exploration of nature, religion, myth, and more.
Apr 1, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Zachary Fine
How Tax Haven States Enable Billionaires to Hide Trillions How Tax Haven States Enable Billionaires to Hide Trillions
The US has now become the global center for money hiding and illicit wealth storage.
Apr 1, 2021 / Chuck Collins
Rehearsals (Lilica [Pixote, 1980 dir. Héctor Babenco]) Rehearsals (Lilica [Pixote, 1980 dir. Héctor Babenco])
I’m telling you a place of purple rocks stretching to the sunset…I’m telling you eyes like a pharaoh’s…I’m telling you huge bouquets of flowers drooling in cheap rooms…I’m telling…
Apr 1, 2021 / Poems / Robert Fernandez