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CAPITOL PUNISHMENT. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of July 12.
Jul 16, 2021 / Steve Brodner
Climate Change Nature Guide Climate Change Nature Guide
Home cooking.
Jul 16, 2021 / OppArt / Jack Ohman
Colombia’s Strategy to Quell Protesters? Shoot at Their Eyes. Colombia’s Strategy to Quell Protesters? Shoot at Their Eyes.
Human rights groups estimate as many as 200 protesters have suffered eye injuries after being targeted by Colombia’s notorious anti-riot police.
Jul 16, 2021 / Peter Schurmann and Manuel Ortiz
Anti-Asian Racism and the 2020 Olympic Games Anti-Asian Racism and the 2020 Olympic Games
How can IOC President Thomas Bach force through these games against the will of 80 percent of the population? It helps if you don’t even know who they are.
Jul 16, 2021 / Dave Zirin
Students Will Benefit From California’s New Budget Students Will Benefit From California’s New Budget
The state will also invest in programs for the formerly incarcerated.
Jul 16, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky
How Capitalism Invented the Care Economy How Capitalism Invented the Care Economy
This is what’s missing from the new conversation about care work.
Jul 16, 2021 / Premilla Nadasen
Which Is the More Prescient Dystopia? ‘Gattaca’ or ‘Parable of the Sower’ Which Is the More Prescient Dystopia? ‘Gattaca’ or ‘Parable of the Sower’
Is it the 1997 film starring Ethan Hawke or is it Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel?
Jul 16, 2021 / The Debate / David M. Perry and Niela Orr
Imagining a Better Way to Grow Old in America Imagining a Better Way to Grow Old in America
If Americans approached aging and disability not as an individual crisis but as a collective responsibility, what kind of safety net could we build?
Jul 16, 2021 / Feature / Bryce Covert
The Novel Solutions of Utopian Fiction The Novel Solutions of Utopian Fiction
Climate catastrophe has transformed a minor literary genre into an important tool of human thought.
Jul 16, 2021 / Feature / Kim Stanley Robinson
All That’s Utopian Melts Into Asphalt All That’s Utopian Melts Into Asphalt
Utopia Parkway, which slices through the most diverse borough in New York, began as a dream of cooperative housing for poor Jewish immigrants.
Jul 16, 2021 / Feature / Molly Crabapple