Covid Is Still Disproportionately Killing Low-Income People Covid Is Still Disproportionately Killing Low-Income People
Though a virus may not be able to discriminate, our society has in fact discriminated in the most virulent ways.
Apr 22, 2022 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
The Right Targets Queer Theory The Right Targets Queer Theory
Christopher Rufo, the man behind the moral panic over “critical race theory,” has fabricated another foe.
Apr 19, 2022 / Candace Bond-Theriault with The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School
“Multiple Things Can Be True”: Understanding the Roots of Anti-Asian Violence “Multiple Things Can Be True”: Understanding the Roots of Anti-Asian Violence
A conversation with public defender Jason Wu, who says if we do not learn from history, we risk misdiagnosing the problems—and applying remedies that will continue to fail us.
Apr 18, 2022 / Q&A / Panthea Lee
Cedric Robinson’s Radical Democracy Cedric Robinson’s Radical Democracy
Rejecting the resignation of the 1970s and ’80s, Robinson found hope and resistance in the ruins of the American city.
Apr 18, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jared Loggins
Sex, Death, and Empire: The Roots of Violence Against Asian Women Sex, Death, and Empire: The Roots of Violence Against Asian Women
The line from America’s earliest empire in the Philippines to Japan, Korea, Vietnam—and anti-Asian violence at home—is straight, clear, and written in blood.
Apr 18, 2022 / Feature / Panthea Lee
The Color of Water The Color of Water
In one of the richest agricultural areas in the world, residents of the California’s colonias still don’t have access to clean running water.
Apr 16, 2022 / Feature / David Bacon
Jackie Robinson, Pioneer of BDS Jackie Robinson, Pioneer of BDS
The Dodgers great didn’t just break Major League Baseball’s color line. He was also an activist whose legacy reaches from Brooklyn to South Africa to Palestine.
Apr 15, 2022 / Robert Ross
Jackie Robinson’s Last Fight Jackie Robinson’s Last Fight
As baseball celebrates the 75th anniversary of Robinson’s breaking the color line, it’s worth remembering a man at odds with his own myth.
Apr 15, 2022 / Dave Zirin
We Can’t Let Billionaires Control Major Communications Platforms We Can’t Let Billionaires Control Major Communications Platforms
Elon Musk may not be sitting on Twitter’s board, but he remains its largest shareholder—and that’s bad news.
Apr 14, 2022 / Victor Pickard
The Herschel Walker Senate Campaign Is an Insult to Black People The Herschel Walker Senate Campaign Is an Insult to Black People
Georgia Republicans have embraced Walker because they think any old Black person will do when it comes to their cynical strategy for defeating Raphael Warnock.
Apr 14, 2022 / Elie Mystal