When There’s No One to Attend to the Dead When There’s No One to Attend to the Dead
How one small change to Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure created a cascade of problems for the state’s capacity to investigate death.
Oct 12, 2023 / Caroline Tracey
The Pope Wants Us to Talk About Sexuality and Climate Change The Pope Wants Us to Talk About Sexuality and Climate Change
In his new text and recently convened synod, he’s encouraging dialogue. It’s going to take a lot of work.
Oct 11, 2023 / Michael F. Pettinger
Hamas’s Shock Attack Should Spark Our Horror—and Our Questions Hamas’s Shock Attack Should Spark Our Horror—and Our Questions
This appalling violence emerged within a context, and we need to understand that context in order to achieve peace.
Oct 11, 2023 / Haggai Matar
The USPS Is Falsifying Safety Documents as Its Workers Die of Heat The USPS Is Falsifying Safety Documents as Its Workers Die of Heat
Even after a mail carrier’s recent death, the company continues to violate its own rules.
Oct 11, 2023 / Josephine Lee
Cluster Bombs and Children Cluster Bombs and Children
Weapons that live on to destroy.
It’s No Mystery Why Racists Have Fallen in Love With Trump’s Republican Party It’s No Mystery Why Racists Have Fallen in Love With Trump’s Republican Party
The KKK did not choose to support Donald Trump because he was a Republican—but because they agreed with the ideas that he and other far-right politicians spout.
Oct 11, 2023 / Clarence Lusane
Florida Socialists Are Here to Stay. Just Ask Richie Floyd. Florida Socialists Are Here to Stay. Just Ask Richie Floyd.
Despite Republican lawmakers warning them to stay out of the state, this Florida city council member represents a growing contingent of Sunshine State socialists.
Oct 11, 2023 / Kathryn Varn
The Market Radicals Who Want to Put an End to Democracy The Market Radicals Who Want to Put an End to Democracy
A conversation with the historian Quinn Slobodian about economic loopholes, the end of neoliberalism, and his new book Crack-Up Capitalism.
Oct 11, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Who’s Driving the GOP Clown Car? Who’s Driving the GOP Clown Car?
With Kevin McCarthy out, far-right Republicans Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise are vying for the House leadership chair.
Oct 10, 2023 / Chris Lehmann
Israel-Palestine Israel-Palestine
As the conflict in Israel and Palestine escalates, the human toll will be enormous.
Oct 10, 2023 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo