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Outside a supermarket, a masked essential worker wearing a blue hazmat suit holds a stop sign.

The Death Eaters: Covid in the Liberal Imagination The Death Eaters: Covid in the Liberal Imagination

A call to rescue public health from the dead hand of neutrality.

Oct 20, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

We Should Be Fighting for a World Without Adoption

We Should Be Fighting for a World Without Adoption We Should Be Fighting for a World Without Adoption

If poverty, racism, and health care inequities were properly redressed, adoption would be a last resort.

Oct 17, 2022 / Michele Merritt

Keith Gessen’s Adventures in Parenting

Keith Gessen’s Adventures in Parenting Keith Gessen’s Adventures in Parenting

In his new book about parenting, Gessen offers a tour of anxieties set in the semi-gentrified Brooklyn of the 2020s.

Aug 9, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ryu Spaeth

To Prevent the Next School Shooting, We Should Listen to Young People

To Prevent the Next School Shooting, We Should Listen to Young People To Prevent the Next School Shooting, We Should Listen to Young People

Young people demand that schools shift from a punitive and policing approach toward restorative practices.

Jun 14, 2022 / StudentNation / Vonne Martin

The Baby Formula Shortage Is a Preview of a Coming Food Crisis

The Baby Formula Shortage Is a Preview of a Coming Food Crisis The Baby Formula Shortage Is a Preview of a Coming Food Crisis

Unless governments transition off fossil fuels and limit global warming, food shortages and famine will become the norm.

Jun 6, 2022 / Liat Olenick

Frank LaMere

The Injustices Endured by Native American Youths Continue to This Day The Injustices Endured by Native American Youths Continue to This Day

Countless Native American young people are being robbed of their chance to live safe and fulfilling lives.

Jun 1, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

So You Want to Reduce Crime?

So You Want to Reduce Crime? So You Want to Reduce Crime?

What kinds of investments have been proven to lower crime rates? (Hint: It’s not directing endless money to the police.)

May 13, 2022 / Bryce Covert

How Covid Revealed the Folly of Our Child Protection System

How Covid Revealed the Folly of Our Child Protection System How Covid Revealed the Folly of Our Child Protection System

Despite predictions of an epidemic of child abuse, the temporary shutdown of the child welfare system showed us the promise of a radically different approach.

Apr 29, 2022 / Dorothy Roberts

FDR with cabinet

As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate

Congress could get inspiration from the tortured creation of Social Security.

Feb 7, 2022 / James Roosevelt Jr., Henry Scott Wallace, June Hopkins, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, and Harold M. Ickes

A woman hugs a baby.

The Cure for Child Homelessness: Affordable Housing The Cure for Child Homelessness: Affordable Housing

As a pediatrician in the San Francisco Bay area, I have seen how housing insecurity can damage the mental and physical health of kids.

Jan 31, 2022 / Christine Ma

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