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How the US Military’s Fertility Policies Are Leaving Women to Suffer

How the US Military’s Fertility Policies Are Leaving Women to Suffer How the US Military’s Fertility Policies Are Leaving Women to Suffer

Antiquated and discriminatory rules around fertility treatments are making the struggle to have a child immeasurably more difficult for many military families.

May 18, 2023 / Britta Lokting

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980.

The Indulgences of Rainer Werner Fassbinder The Indulgences of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ian Penman’s study of the German filmmaker’s work elucidates his “cocaine communism”—an aesthetics and politics of revolution and pleasure.

May 18, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Marzoni

Ady Barkan speaks on Capitol Hill

How Medicare Advantage Could Kill Medicare How Medicare Advantage Could Kill Medicare

Once corporations privatize every inch of the public provision of health care, we may never get Medicare back.

May 17, 2023 / Ady Barkan

Rudy Giuliani

“America’s Mayor” Is a Certified Creep “America’s Mayor” Is a Certified Creep

In the latest installment of a decades-long fall from grace, Rudy Giuliani faces a lawsuit from a former employee alleging sexual harassment and assault.

May 17, 2023 / Chris Lehmann

Violence and Injustice

Violence and Injustice Violence and Injustice

Violence against women and the LGBTQI+ and Black communities continues worldwide.

May 17, 2023 / OppArt / Chee Bravo

Demonstrators shout slogans and hold placards during a protest at the Amazon fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minn., on December 14, 2018

Minnesota Enacts Landmark Protections for Amazon Warehouse Workers Minnesota Enacts Landmark Protections for Amazon Warehouse Workers

Passed over strenuous opposition from the company, the new law is the fruit of a long campaign by Amazon workers and the local community.

May 17, 2023 / Abdirahman Muse, Emma Greenman, and Erin Murphy

Kevin McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Greene in session

Only Republicans Want to Push Us Into Default Only Republicans Want to Push Us Into Default

How McCarthy, McConnell, and Greene are Martin, Barton, and Fish all over again.

May 17, 2023 / James D. Zirin

Los Angeles traffic

Can America Go Car-Free? Gen Z Hopes So. Can America Go Car-Free? Gen Z Hopes So.

Young people today are already driving less, but breaking the country’s car-dependency will require unprecedented investment in infrastructure and public transit.

May 17, 2023 / StudentNation / Hannah Reynolds

Chuck D and Rosa Clemente.

After 50 Years, What’s Left for Hip Hop to Teach? After 50 Years, What’s Left for Hip Hop to Teach?

Chuck D and Rosa Clemente discuss the past and future of music and politics.

May 17, 2023 / Q&A / Laura Flanders

Speaker of the House Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks to reporters on his way to the House Chamber at the US Capitol on May 15, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

Slaying the Debt Ceiling Dragon Slaying the Debt Ceiling Dragon

On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Jeff Hauser discusses why negotiating with the Republicans is no solution.

May 17, 2023 / Podcast / Jeet Heer

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