China Is Exporting Its Anti-Muslim Strategy to India China Is Exporting Its Anti-Muslim Strategy to India
Muslims in Kashmir may find themselves in a Xinjiang-style dystopia thanks to Chinese technology and Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalism.
Oct 16, 2019 / Nithin Coca
Trump Has Gone to War Against California Trump Has Gone to War Against California
In his vengeful, mob-style way, Trump is attacking the Golden State both rhetorically and through policy measures. No matter where we live, we all have a dog in this fight.
Oct 15, 2019 / Sasha Abramsky
Bernie Sanders Spoke Today About His Heart Attack—and His Purpose Bernie Sanders Spoke Today About His Heart Attack—and His Purpose
In poignant and powerful language, the senator is making the connection between his recent hospitalization and the fight for Medicare for All.
Oct 10, 2019 / John Nichols
Washington’s Struggling Medical Residents Need a Raise Washington’s Struggling Medical Residents Need a Raise
How bullying, depression, debt, and 90-hour weeks pushed members of the University of Washington Housestaff Association to walk out of the job.
Oct 9, 2019 / Jennifer Bernstein
A Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players A Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players
How baseball’s numbers game threatens to strangle the sport.
Oct 8, 2019 / Feature / Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier
The ‘Public Option’ on Health Care Is a Poison Pill The ‘Public Option’ on Health Care Is a Poison Pill
Some Democratic candidates are pushing it as a free-choice version of Medicare for All. That’s good rhetoric but bad policy.
Oct 7, 2019 / Feature / David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler
Trump May Be Driving the Economy Into Recession Trump May Be Driving the Economy Into Recession
His reckless trade war is having a calamitous global impact—and he’s continuing his assault on the courts and the environment.
Oct 4, 2019 / Sasha Abramsky
Is Our Food Culture Killing Us? Is Our Food Culture Killing Us?
How we “choose” what to eat takes place within a contained food environment shaped by availability and advertising, traditions and trends—and, above all else, economics.
Oct 1, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Susan Pedersen
‘How Dare You!’ Greta Thunberg Rebukes World Leaders ‘How Dare You!’ Greta Thunberg Rebukes World Leaders
“We will not let you get away with this,” the 16-year-old climate strike leader tells the UN Climate Action Summit.
Sep 23, 2019 / Mark Hertsgaard
With Trump, We’re in the Realm of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ With Trump, We’re in the Realm of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Roundups of the homeless, destruction of environmental and housing safeguards, collusion with foreign despots to savage reproductive rights—the president is an outlaw.
Sep 20, 2019 / Sasha Abramsky