News Deserts Are Obscuring the Breadth of Climate Disasters News Deserts Are Obscuring the Breadth of Climate Disasters
Bootstrapped publications like mine do their best to keep the news alive in communities now struggling just to survive.
May 15, 2024 / Jane Braxton Little
Angela Alsobrooks Beat the Big Money. Now She Has to Beat the Big Republican. Angela Alsobrooks Beat the Big Money. Now She Has to Beat the Big Republican.
Maryland’s new Democratic US Senate nominee won a bitterly contested primary. Now, she has an even tougher fight on her hands.
May 15, 2024 / John Nichols
How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists
A tranche of 4,700 subpoenaed e-mails reveals the ways in which fossil-fuel corporations try to influence the media—and why they all too often succeed.
May 15, 2024 / Molly Taft
American Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict—Plus, Climate Hope American Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict—Plus, Climate Hope
On this episode, Harold Meyerson talks about the immigration restriction act passed 100 years ago this month and Elizabeth Kolbert about her new climate change book, H Is for Hope...
May 15, 2024 / Podcast / Jon Wiener
My Grandmother Survived the Nakba—Now I Hope to Survive a Genocide My Grandmother Survived the Nakba—Now I Hope to Survive a Genocide
As I flee from place to place in Gaza, desperately seeking safety, fragments of my grandmother’s story from 1948 come to mind.
May 15, 2024 / Abeer Barakat
Whatever Happened to Reversing Trump’s Cuba Policies? Whatever Happened to Reversing Trump’s Cuba Policies?
After campaigning on reversing Trump’s regressive policies in the region, Cuban Americans are frustrated by the president’s subsequent passivity.
May 15, 2024 / David Montgomery
What’s Ailing Prestige TV? What’s Ailing Prestige TV?
In Netflix’s big budget series 3 Body Problem, the flaws of this era of streaming is laid bare.
May 15, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi
NBA Playoffs: Round One Understood NBA Playoffs: Round One Understood
On this episode of Edge of Sports, Dave and Arya discuss the playoffs.
May 14, 2024 / Podcast / Dave Zirin
Joe Biden Should Pardon Marilyn Mosby Joe Biden Should Pardon Marilyn Mosby
While the power of the pardon is fundamentally undemocratic, the president should use it to do some good while he can.
May 14, 2024 / Elie Mystal