How Asset Managers Ruined Our Lives How Asset Managers Ruined Our Lives
Firms like Blackstone have made investments in real estate, energy, and infrastructure to become the world’s most crooked landlords and bill collectors.
Oct 23, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Michael Eby
Western Journalists Have Palestinian Blood on Their Hands Western Journalists Have Palestinian Blood on Their Hands
The mainstream media’s relentless dehumanization of Palestinians is enabling Israeli war crimes.
Oct 20, 2023 / Mohammed El-Kurd
The Crisis of Shelter in the United States The Crisis of Shelter in the United States
Housing is one the building blocks of human life. Why is it so scarce in this country?
Oct 5, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
What Museum Guards See What Museum Guards See
A recent memoir by Patrick Bringley about his time working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art illustrates the intimate knowledge guards possess of the pieces they protect.
Sep 25, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
This Might Be the Most Important Election You Haven’t Heard About This Might Be the Most Important Election You Haven’t Heard About
Elections in Slovakia usually don’t get much attention. But this one could hold crucial lessons about the staying power of Trumpist politics around the world.
Sep 22, 2023 / Emily Tamkin
Exclusive: With My Father, Salvador Allende, in His Final Hours Exclusive: With My Father, Salvador Allende, in His Final Hours
An excerpt from 11 de Septiembre: Esa semana (11th of September: That Week)
Sep 11, 2023 / Isabel Allende Bussi
A Year Later, the Water Crisis in Jackson Has Gone From Acute to Chronic A Year Later, the Water Crisis in Jackson Has Gone From Acute to Chronic
And the officials in charge of fixing the situation seem more interested in privatization than accountability.
Sep 7, 2023 / Makani Themba
Ágota Kristóf and the Agony of the “Enemy” Language Ágota Kristóf and the Agony of the “Enemy” Language
In her memoir, The Illiterate, the formidable Hungarian writer details her lifelong battle with language as a tool of misunderstanding.
Aug 14, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Missouri Williams
Why the Right Wanted the USWNT to Lose Why the Right Wanted the USWNT to Lose
Conservatives want everything Megan Rapinoe represents—feminism, queerness, anti-racism, reproductive choice, women's strength—to wither away.
Aug 10, 2023 / Dave Zirin
Abortion Denied: Reproductive Injustice Behind Bars Abortion Denied: Reproductive Injustice Behind Bars
"[This situation] should make you wonder whether we, as a society, should be incarcerating pregnant people in the first place."
Jul 28, 2023 / Victoria Law