This Was the Decade of Feminist Uprisings in Latin America This Was the Decade of Feminist Uprisings in Latin America
The “green wave” emerged in response to staggering rates of femicide, and then began mounting challenges to the highly restrictive abortion laws in the region.
Dec 31, 2019 / Zoë Carpenter
#MeToo Made Me Reconsider My Wartime Affair #MeToo Made Me Reconsider My Wartime Affair
Was it love? A search for validation and empowerment? Or was he taking advantage?
Dec 31, 2019 / Teresa Fazio
Bill Greider Showed Us What American Journalism Could Be Bill Greider Showed Us What American Journalism Could Be
Join me in raising a glass to a legend, my mentor and friend, a reporter who prized reality over false notions of “balance.” He will be missed.
Dec 31, 2019 / Robert L. Borosage
The Global Garbage Economy Begins (and Ends) in This Senegalese Dump The Global Garbage Economy Begins (and Ends) in This Senegalese Dump
How Dakar’s trash depot became a battleground for Chinese industry, the World Bank, and Senegalese organized labor.
Dec 31, 2019 / Katie Jane Fernelius
10 of 2019’s Best Albums 10 of 2019’s Best Albums
The hybrid work of Julia Wolfe’s oratorio Fire in My Mouth, FKA twigs’s Magdalene, and Kris Davis’s Diatom Ribbons all showcase the experimental spirit of this year’s most exc...
Dec 30, 2019 / David Hajdu
A Real Basket Case A Real Basket Case
Gun culture is weaving itself into daily American life.
Dec 30, 2019 / OppArt / Jappie King Black
How Chemists, Chinese Factories, and ‘Dark Web’ Dealers Spread Fentanyl Across the US How Chemists, Chinese Factories, and ‘Dark Web’ Dealers Spread Fentanyl Across the US
Ben Westhoff’s Fentanyl, Inc. is one of the first books to address what the Centers for Disease Control has called the “third wave” of the opioid crisis.
Dec 30, 2019 / Daniel Kolitz
The Democrats’ School Choice Problem The Democrats’ School Choice Problem
Charter schools find their most vocal Democratic support among the least progressive members of the party: centrists and Wall Streeters.
Dec 30, 2019 / Jennifer C. Berkshire
Thank You, Comrade Greider Thank You, Comrade Greider
Bill Greider spared no one his incisive political criticism—on the left or the right. “I think this country needs to start over,” he once wrote me.
Dec 30, 2019 / Karen Rothmyer
William Greider Knew What Ailed the Democratic Party William Greider Knew What Ailed the Democratic Party
…and how to fix it. We will miss him.
Dec 27, 2019 / John Nichols