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How Does One Tell the Story of Asian America?

How Does One Tell the Story of Asian America? How Does One Tell the Story of Asian America?

Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings grapples with the contradictions of Asian American experience in order to tell a story of solidarity.

May 18, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jane Hu

The Other Epidemic

The Other Epidemic The Other Epidemic

Public health insights are reshaping our understanding of how violence spreads.

May 18, 2020 / Feature / Jack Herrera

Biden in red Corvette

Would You Buy a Used Progressive Agenda From This Man? Would You Buy a Used Progressive Agenda From This Man?

Progressive voters have to balance hope with skepticism as they are wooed by the former vice president.

May 15, 2020 / Jeet Heer

If They Walk Like Fascists and Talk Like Fascists…

If They Walk Like Fascists and Talk Like Fascists… If They Walk Like Fascists and Talk Like Fascists…

Attacking science, forcing people back to work, closing the border, suppressing the vote—the Trump/GOP strategy looks increasingly like white nationalist accelerationism.

May 15, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky

Kayleigh McEnany pointing at a person with their hand raised

Trump’s New Press Secretary Fits Right In Trump’s New Press Secretary Fits Right In

Everywhere you look, the president has appointed people who undermine their job’s essential reason for being.

May 14, 2020 / Column / Eric Alterman

Empty stairs of the Met

Reopening: A Chronicle of Needless Deaths Foretold Reopening: A Chronicle of Needless Deaths Foretold

Brace yourselves for a long, slow burn. We will not get our epidemic under control in the US.

May 14, 2020 / Gregg Gonsalves

Paintings of Donald Trump and Barack Obama's faces are displayed outside a park in New York CIty

Racism Is All Trump Has Left Racism Is All Trump Has Left

Facing a tough reelection fight, the president tries to rally his base with the bogeyman of Obama and a reassertion of racial hierarchy.

May 13, 2020 / Jeet Heer

A driver in a car on the left talks to two health workers in protective suits.

The Covid-19 Stimulus Debate Is a Pivotal Climate Story The Covid-19 Stimulus Debate Is a Pivotal Climate Story

US coronavirus stimulus measures can help prevent the world from doubling down on another mass-casualty event: climate change.

May 13, 2020 / Mark Hertsgaard

Columbia Has the Chance to Expose the Lie of Austerity

Columbia Has the Chance to Expose the Lie of Austerity Columbia Has the Chance to Expose the Lie of Austerity

The seventh-largest property owner in NYC needs to use its wealth to protect its vulnerable workers, not punish them.

May 12, 2020 / R.H. Lossin and Lexie Cook

Bernie Sanders rally

Let Our People Vote! Let Our People Vote!

Bernie Sanders may have dropped out, but his supporters deserve the right to vote for the policies he championed.

May 12, 2020 / Winnie Wong

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