“Declared Intention”: My Immigration Story, and Ours “Declared Intention”: My Immigration Story, and Ours
Like many Americans, I may only be one generation away from birthright citizenship—a concept that defined this country’s promise for so many immigrants.
Jul 30, 2025 / Robert Pinsky
Essex Hemphill’s Poetry of Belonging Essex Hemphill’s Poetry of Belonging
He was an artist and activist who found in his verse a tool for both community and agitprop.
Jul 30, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Felsenthal
Dems Who Didn’t Vote in 2024—Plus, Mussolini and Trump Dems Who Didn’t Vote in 2024—Plus, Mussolini and Trump
On this episode of Start Making Sense, Celinda Lake on Biden voters who didn’t vote for Harris, and John Powers on a novel about the rise of Mussolini.
Jul 30, 2025 / Podcast / Jon Wiener
Keep Digging, Donald. You’re Keeping the Epstein Scandal Alive. Keep Digging, Donald. You’re Keeping the Epstein Scandal Alive.
Trump’s bizarre claim that he fell out with the indicted child sex trafficker because Epstein “stole” workers from Mar-a-Lago only raises more lurid questions.
Jul 29, 2025 / Joan Walsh
The Perils of Competition With China The Perils of Competition With China
On American Prestige: Michael Brenes on how the US-China rivalry threatens democracy and peace.
Jul 29, 2025 / Podcast
100 Monkeys 100 Monkeys
Check out all installments in the OppArt series.
Jul 29, 2025 / OppArt / Steve Brodner
A New Report Exposes How Major American Corporations Have Been All Too Eager to Aid Israeli’s Atrocities in Gaza A New Report Exposes How Major American Corporations Have Been All Too Eager to Aid Israeli’s Atrocities in Gaza
It also reveals our nation’s now undeniable complicity in what has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century.
Jul 29, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”? Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”?
Alex Higley’s True Failure, which dramatizes one man’s dream to pitch his business idea on reality TV, slyly compares this bathetic task to publishing literary fiction.
Jul 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Ben Sandman
The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb
Retreating water levels are exposing stretches of cracked, arsenic-laden lakebed in Utah. Future dust storms will carry an extra hazard.
Jul 29, 2025 / StudentNation / Adelaide Parker
A Trip Through Hell A Trip Through Hell
In a Washington county jail, solitary confinement is the worst, most degrading, foulest experience you could ever imagine.
Jul 29, 2025 / Christopher Blackwell