California Explains It All California Explains It All
To understand US politics—for better and for worse—look to the Golden State.
Oct 8, 2024 / Ned Resnikoff
The Silencing of Sylvia Plath The Silencing of Sylvia Plath
In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes.
Oct 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Lynne Feeley
Kamala Harris Is Taking a Big Risk by Playing It Safe Kamala Harris Is Taking a Big Risk by Playing It Safe
The Democratic nominee is acting like protecting her small lead is more important than energizing her base. We’ve seen this story before—and it didn’t end well.
Oct 7, 2024 / Jeet Heer
A Year Ago Today A Year Ago Today
A horrific attack and monstrous war with no end in sight.
Oct 7, 2024 / OppArt / Tayseer Barakat
In a Glaring Double Standard, FIFA Fails to Suspend Israel In a Glaring Double Standard, FIFA Fails to Suspend Israel
FIFA banned apartheid South Africa. It banned Russia for invading Ukraine. But about Israel, FIFA does nothing.
Oct 7, 2024 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin
‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World’ ‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World’
Dispatches from Gaza on surviving a year of genocide.
Oct 7, 2024 / Lujayn, Mohammed R. Mhawish, Ahmed Abu Artema, and Hani Almadhoun
Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again
Day by day, for a year, the Israeli military waged an unrelenting campaign of extermination against Palestinians in Gaza. Day by day, people of conscience tried to stop it.
Oct 7, 2024 / Noura Erakat
Kamala Harris—Not Liz Cheney—Is Calling Republicans Back to Their Party’s Roots Kamala Harris—Not Liz Cheney—Is Calling Republicans Back to Their Party’s Roots
The Republican Party was not founded as a vehicle for Trumpism or Cheneyism. It was a radical party that championed economic and social and racial justice.
Oct 7, 2024 / John Nichols
The Empty Promise of “Megalopolis” The Empty Promise of “Megalopolis”
Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited magnum opus is a flop.
Oct 7, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
Israel’s Internal Contradictions Israel’s Internal Contradictions
As Israel approached the one-year anniversary of October 7, it seemed to be at a crossroads, with two powerful blocs pulling in two different directions.
Oct 7, 2024 / Meron Rapoport