This Journalist Is Uncovering the Dirty Side of Fast Fashion This Journalist Is Uncovering the Dirty Side of Fast Fashion
Alden Wicker, author of To Dye For, wants our clothes to stop poisoning us.
Jan 10, 2024 / Danielle Renwick
Democrats and the Left: A Mutual Dependency Democrats and the Left: A Mutual Dependency
Mass movements stoke the fires of popular discontent, but only the state can pass laws and overhaul key institutions.
Jan 9, 2024 / Michael Kazin
Meet Ralph Nader’s Rebellious CEOs Meet Ralph Nader’s Rebellious CEOs
Can business legitimately earn its social license in a time of crisis?
Jan 9, 2024 / Vincent Stanley
Meet William Ackman, America’s Most Entitled Donor Meet William Ackman, America’s Most Entitled Donor
The hedge-fund activist’s attacks on Harvard and Claudine Gay have gotten much notice; less attention has been paid to the toll his financial activities have taken on the country....
Jan 8, 2024 / Michael Massing
Biden’s Pro-Democracy Message Is Too Negative and Too Narrow Biden’s Pro-Democracy Message Is Too Negative and Too Narrow
A winning campaign needs more than just revulsion at the January 6 coup.
Jan 8, 2024 / Jeet Heer
Throwing the Book at Amazon’s Monopoly Hold on Publishing Throwing the Book at Amazon’s Monopoly Hold on Publishing
It’s a common trope in movies: A mob enforcer walks into a shop, looks around, and then says to the owner, “Nice place you got here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.” E…
Jan 8, 2024 / Sandeep Vaheesan and Tara Pincock
The Freedom Caucus Is Coming for SNAP The Freedom Caucus Is Coming for SNAP
Food stamps have a problematic place in progressive views of the social welfare safety net. But the program works, and it needs our support.
Jan 4, 2024 / Christopher Bosso
Rocky Mountain Lie Rocky Mountain Lie
The inside story of a scam nestled inside Colorado’s booming crypto trade
Jan 3, 2024 / James Block and Jacob Silverman
Housing Is a Human Right Housing Is a Human Right
Homelessness in America reached a record high, with more than 650,000 unhoused people, an increase of 12 percent from the year before.
Jan 1, 2024 / OppArt / Alfred González
More Democracy, Not the Courts, Will Defeat Trump’s Authoritarianism More Democracy, Not the Courts, Will Defeat Trump’s Authoritarianism
The pursuit of legal liberalism is a distraction from mobilizing a majority coalition against a would-be dictator.
Dec 29, 2023 / Jeet Heer