Be Careful What You Work For: The GOP’s Abortion Woes Are Just Starting Be Careful What You Work For: The GOP’s Abortion Woes Are Just Starting
The midterms open a future in which reproductive freedom will remake politics.
Nov 21, 2022 / Jeet Heer
How a Defender of American Empire Became a Dissenter How a Defender of American Empire Became a Dissenter
A conversation with Lyle Jeremy Rubin about the complicated ideology of the marine corps, America's obsession with war, and his new memoir Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body.
Nov 17, 2022 / Q&A / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
The Problem With “Jihad, Rehab” Isn’t Filmmaker Meg Smaker’s Color or Religion The Problem With “Jihad, Rehab” Isn’t Filmmaker Meg Smaker’s Color or Religion
The idea that a white woman cannot make a film about non-white men is absurd. But as “Meg,” the film’s narrator, her voice is the voice of the cop.
Nov 7, 2022 / Moustafa Bayoumi
For Iranian Women, the Uprising Was a Long Time Coming For Iranian Women, the Uprising Was a Long Time Coming
The protests are about choice—elective rather than mandatory hijab—not unlike the demands of abortion rights supporters in the United States.
Oct 27, 2022 / Kiana Karimi
The Right’s Religious Liberty Agenda Is on a Collision Course With Labor Law The Right’s Religious Liberty Agenda Is on a Collision Course With Labor Law
Religious employers have found a way to give themselves cover for blatant discrimination—and the Supreme Court is ready to back them up.
Oct 17, 2022 / Feature / Bryce Covert
Olga Tokarczuk’s Panoramic Novel of Jewish Poland Olga Tokarczuk’s Panoramic Novel of Jewish Poland
A work defined by its narrative elasticity, The Books of Jacob tells the story of a false messiah not through his eyes but through the vibrant and now lost world around him.
Oct 4, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
Remembering Frank Watkins, Longtime Lieutenant to Jesse Jackson Remembering Frank Watkins, Longtime Lieutenant to Jesse Jackson
Though he preferred to work behind the scenes, Watkins was a crucial force in opening the Democratic Party to Black leadership—and pulling it to the left.
Sep 30, 2022 / Kevin Alexander Gray
The Vatican’s Disgraceful China Deal Ought to End The Vatican’s Disgraceful China Deal Ought to End
By renewing a secretive agreement with Beijing, the Vatican is dangerously close to being complicit in the Chinese government’s deepening rights abuses.
Sep 30, 2022 / Maya Wang
Republicans Are Ready to Declare the United States a Christian Nation Republicans Are Ready to Declare the United States a Christian Nation
Sixty-one percent of the party's base now favors ending the separation of church and state, as do a growing number of prominent Republicans.
Sep 23, 2022 / John Nichols
Hindu Nationalism’s Alarming Rise in the US Goes Beyond Texas Hindu Nationalism’s Alarming Rise in the US Goes Beyond Texas
The 2019 Houston rally—where Trump and Modi rubbed elbows—wasn’t the end of Hindutva's ascent in the United States.
Sep 15, 2022 / Pranay Somayajula