Stop the Enbridge Ecocide! Stop the Enbridge Ecocide!
From Minnesota to Massachusetts, the Canadian pipeline company is engaged in crimes against humanity and the earth—abetted by state power.
Jul 6, 2021 / Wen Stephenson
The Predictable Backlash to Critical Race Theory: A Q&A With Kimberlé Crenshaw The Predictable Backlash to Critical Race Theory: A Q&A With Kimberlé Crenshaw
“Wherever there is race reform, there’s inevitably retrenchment.”
Jul 5, 2021 / Jon Wiener
Split Screens Split Screens
Fifty Shades of Red. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of June 28.
Jul 2, 2021 / Steve Brodner
Bigots Have Finally Accomplished Their Goal of Gutting the Voting Rights Act Bigots Have Finally Accomplished Their Goal of Gutting the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court’s decision upholding voter restrictions in Arizona paves the way for widespread disenfranchisement of voters of color.
Jul 2, 2021 / Elie Mystal
Gwen Berry Is the Hero We Need Gwen Berry Is the Hero We Need
The Olympic hammer thrower is facing attacks similar to those felt by anti-racist educators and activists around the country. And she is not backing down an inch.
Jul 2, 2021 / Dave Zirin
Maybe We Shouldn’t Go Back to Normal Maybe We Shouldn’t Go Back to Normal
“Normal has always been a perilous reality.”
Jun 30, 2021 / Bri M.
Extreme Heat in Portland Is an ‘Acute Disaster on Chronic Disaster’ Extreme Heat in Portland Is an ‘Acute Disaster on Chronic Disaster’
Physical infrastructure, social services, labor protections—in the Pacific Northwest, none of them is designed with extreme heat in mind.
Jun 30, 2021 / Zoë Carpenter
‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’ ‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’
A conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Jun 30, 2021 / Q&A / Katrina vanden Heuvel
How Did Education in the United States Become So Unequal? How Did Education in the United States Become So Unequal?
A new history of Boston’s schools reminds us how the brittle vision of whom and what education serves has long been defined by managers and employers instead of the educators who d...
Jun 29, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Megan Erickson