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Elon Musk Buys Social Network Twitter

Elon Musk Is Everything That’s Wrong With the Media Elon Musk Is Everything That’s Wrong With the Media

The aspiring Twitter impresario has taken the major problems of the industry and kicked them into overdrive.

Dec 13, 2022 / Chris Lehmann

Activists in support of unionized rail workers protest outside the U.S. Capitol Building on November 29, 2022.

I’m a Rail Worker, and Biden Screwed Us I’m a Rail Worker, and Biden Screwed Us

We can either deny rail carriers our labor in defiance of long-established laws, or we stand still and keep eating their punches.

Dec 13, 2022 / John Tormey

Protesting Covid Lockdowns in China

Protesting Covid Lockdowns in China Protesting Covid Lockdowns in China

Check out all installments in the OppArt series.

Dec 13, 2022 / OppArt / Emanuele Del Rosso and Paul Tong

Indiana University Climate Protest

For Universities to Thrive, Students Need a Seat at the Table For Universities to Thrive, Students Need a Seat at the Table

The board of trustees is one of the most influential decision-making bodies on a campus, yet many of them lack adequate student representation.

Dec 13, 2022 / StudentNation / Sena Wazer

Nelba Marquez-Greene

“I Walk Into a Room and I Make People Cry”: 10 Years After Sandy Hook “I Walk Into a Room and I Make People Cry”: 10 Years After Sandy Hook

Joan Walsh spoke with Nelba Márquez-Greene, mother of slain student Ana, about the extraordinary depths of grief, love, and bravery Sandy Hook families have summoned in the decade ...

Dec 13, 2022 / Q&A / Joan Walsh

Women Are Half the Population, Not a Special Interest Group

Women Are Half the Population, Not a Special Interest Group Women Are Half the Population, Not a Special Interest Group

Democrats do themselves no favors when they pretend “women’s issues” are a niche category of human affairs.

Dec 13, 2022 / Column / Alexis Grenell

Winners

Winners Winners

Among the people Trump will not denounce, Who’s leading now for statements that appall us? The race remains quite close, but in the lead It’s Ye and his pal Fuentes über alles.

Dec 13, 2022 / Column / Calvin Trillin

How the Third Way Made Neoliberal Politics Seem Inevitable

How the Third Way Made Neoliberal Politics Seem Inevitable How the Third Way Made Neoliberal Politics Seem Inevitable

An overhyped new paradigm proved to be a slogan without a movement.

Dec 13, 2022 / Feature / Lily Geismer

Sister Souljah in Harlem in 1993

How Sister Souljah Went From Radical Activist to Scapegoat to Blockbuster Novelist How Sister Souljah Went From Radical Activist to Scapegoat to Blockbuster Novelist

After Bill Clinton used her to catapult himself to the presidency, the activist Souljah was sidelined. But the novelist Souljah continued to produce work that spoke to millions.

Dec 13, 2022 / Feature / Dani McClain

The Birth of a New Brand of Exercise Fetish

The Birth of a New Brand of Exercise Fetish The Birth of a New Brand of Exercise Fetish

From Bikram yoga to Tae Bo, the 1990s exploded with exoticized consumer fitness products.

Dec 13, 2022 / Feature / Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

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