Comix Nation

Jen Sorensen

Snapshot: Half a Man

“The Incredible Bionic Man,” now at the Smithsonian, is a state-of-the-art humanoid robotic exoskeleton (“Rex” for short). Although Rex lacks major parts, such as a brain and nervous system, the research team was able to duplicate over 50 percent of the human body, including prosthetic limbs and artificial organ implants. Read More

Joshua Roberts

The One Supreme Court Decision We Can Celebrate

In ruling that police may not search cellphones without a warrant, the Court brought the Fourth Amendment into the twenty-first century.

David Cole

50 Years After Freedom Summer, America Needs a Revived Movement for Racial Justice

There is much to celebrate in Mississippi, and yet America still needs a year of action on voting rights.

The Editors

Postcards Post-Stonewall

We can pretend the politics of liberation can be tracked along clearly marked lines, or we can remember that history is like desire.

JoAnn Wypijewski

How the Supreme Court Undermined Women’s Citizenship

The court’s decision to invalidate the abortion clinic buffer zone limits the privacy women require as participants in a democracy.

Melissa Harris-Perry

William Kristol’s Credentials as an Iraq Expert

Calvin Trillin

Where Will the Slippery Slope of ‘Hobby Lobby’ End?

There’s no telling how far religious exemptions will go under Justice Alito’s ruling.

Katha Pollitt

Letters

Saving the venerable NYPL… cooperation, not capitalism… a jewel in the dross… you could look it up…

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