The US Military Is Still Not Taking Suicide Prevention Seriously The US Military Is Still Not Taking Suicide Prevention Seriously
The unanticipated toll of suicides by troops and veterans has become another Pentagon failure.
Aug 7, 2024 / Nick Turse
The Olympics Have Turned Paris Into a Panopticon The Olympics Have Turned Paris Into a Panopticon
The omnipresent high-tech surveillance introduced for the Games normalizes incursions on civil liberties.
Jul 31, 2024 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin
What Happens to American Healthcare After November? What Happens to American Healthcare After November?
While Trump’s platform is a serious threat, Harris’s remains uncertain.
Jul 31, 2024 / Adam Gaffney
Letters: Writing About Science Letters: Writing About Science
Readers disagree with criticism of recent opinion pieces in The New York Times about the origins of Covid-19 and the public health response to it.
Jul 31, 2024 / Our Readers, Gregg Gonsalves, and John P. Moore
Kamala Harris Needs to Put Arrogant Plutocratic Donors in Their Place Kamala Harris Needs to Put Arrogant Plutocratic Donors in Their Place
Wealthy centrists are already pressuring Democrats to give up their progressive achievements.
Jul 29, 2024 / Jeet Heer
Why Covid Keeps Winning Why Covid Keeps Winning
We didn’t learn a thing.
Jul 29, 2024 / Gregg Gonsalves and Walker Bragman
Working-Class Americans Prefer a “Hand Up” to a “Handout” Working-Class Americans Prefer a “Hand Up” to a “Handout”
Working- and middle-class Americans take pride in their work. If Democrats want to win their votes, they need to acknowledge and appeal to that pride, not dismiss or patronize it....
Jul 23, 2024 / Column / Erica Etelson
The Democrats Have a Two-Biden Problem The Democrats Have a Two-Biden Problem
And so does the president. As he decides his future, Joe Biden has to come to terms with the war within himself.
Jul 19, 2024 / Jeet Heer
Inside the Fight to Bring Midwives Back to Massachusetts Inside the Fight to Bring Midwives Back to Massachusetts
Midwifery is often a cheaper and safer alternative for some childbirths, yet the state’s policies require midwives to jump through increasingly difficult hoops to practice.
Jul 19, 2024 / StudentNation / Annika Inampudi
Why Are Bernie Sanders and the Squad Propping Up Joe Biden? Why Are Bernie Sanders and the Squad Propping Up Joe Biden?
A wounded Biden is running on a platform that progressives have long dreamed about.
Jul 18, 2024 / Jeet Heer