Why We’re Shocked by White Heroin Use

Do white pundits, reporters and TV producers have a no-snitch policy on exposing crises in the white community?

Ishmael Reed

Can the Internet Be a ‘People’s Platform’? A Q&A With Astra Taylor

Her new book reconsiders how democratic the digital world really is.

Sarah Leonard

Why Is It Illegal to Export American Oil?

Some companies want the ban dropped.

Simon Davis-Cohen

Obama’s Climate Regulations: A Step in the Right Direction, but Nowhere Close to What We Need

How about a 40 percent cut by 2030 based on 1990 levels?

The Editors

Comix Nation

Matt Bors

Snapshot: Call In the Troops

With US military operations under way in thirteen African nations, Secretary of State John Kerry has had a lot to talk about. President Obama has presented the US withdrawal from Afghanistan as a way to free up resources for a “broader set of priorities.” On May 21, one week before the speech, eighty troops were sent to Chad. Read More

Saul Loeb

Sex Trafficking, Lies & Money: Lessons From the Somaly Mam Scandal

Why exactly did the telegenic Cambodian campaigner use fake trafficking victims to raise philanthropic cash from Westerners? And when will Nicholas Kristof ever learn?

Katha Pollitt

New Mass Murder, Old Lesson

Why we avoid talking about the one thing that might stop the next bloodbath

Richard Kim

The VA Scandal

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Bitcoin, bitcoin, going so fast… students keep up the pressure… teachers held in the rubber room… for women only… Cold War déjà vu (all...

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