Snapshot: Love in a Time of Gentrification Snapshot: Love in a Time of Gentrification
A newlywed couple poses for photographs at San Francisco’s City Hall on May 8 amid hundreds of anti-eviction protesters. The demonstrators, holding signs that read stop evictions and no artists, no culture, were calling for an end to the displacement of low-income residents from the Mission District by high-paid tech workers.
May 20, 2015 / Eric Risberg
How Immigrants Have Changed the Democratic Party How Immigrants Have Changed the Democratic Party
Hilary Clinton’s evolution on immigration reform is a testament to the youthful movement that erupted during the Obama era.
May 13, 2015 / The Editors
Snowden’s Vindication Snowden’s Vindication
An appeals court declares the NSA’s data grab illegal.
May 13, 2015 / David Cole
Labour’s Love’s Lost Labour’s Love’s Lost
The party must renew links to British civil society.
May 13, 2015 / D.D. Guttenplan
Comix Nation Comix Nation
May 12, 2015 / Matt Bors
Snapshot: Secretary of Selfies Snapshot: Secretary of Selfies
Secretary of State John Kerry takes a selfie while touring an elephant orphanage in Nairobi National Park. The trip was part of a three-country African tour that included stopovers in Kenya and Djibouti, and an unannounced visit to Somalia—the first time a US secretary of state has ever visited the country.
May 12, 2015 / Andrew Harnik
Can Bernie Sanders Break Through the Status Quo? Can Bernie Sanders Break Through the Status Quo?
He may have already done it, with his unapologetic defense of social democracy and assaults on the “billionaire class.”
May 5, 2015 / John Nichols
Why I Support PEN’s Courage Award to ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Why I Support PEN’s Courage Award to ‘Charlie Hebdo’
I have a sentimental attachment to journals of political satire as unique and effective instruments of criticism.
May 5, 2015 / Victor Navasky
How the Horrors of World War II Lived On How the Horrors of World War II Lived On
Tens of millions were murdered or expelled from their homes in a whirlwind of ethnic cleansing.
May 5, 2015 / David Nasaw
Black America’s Lost Generation Speaks Up Black America’s Lost Generation Speaks Up
The teens of the Baltimore riot have never known a reality without crisis. That comes with consequences.
May 5, 2015 / Kai Wright