Science and Health

Mars

Seeing Mars, Seeing Red Seeing Mars, Seeing Red

As the climate warms and this planet of ours continues sprinting toward extinction, we’re seeing the cultural fixation with Mars take center stage.

Nov 19, 2016 / Sam Sax

Dakota Pipeline police

How You Can Stand With Standing Rock How You Can Stand With Standing Rock

Today’s #NoDAPL action targets the Army Corps of Engineers. Watch this video—then call them.

Nov 15, 2016 / Julia Mead

Responsible Hedonists

Responsible Hedonists Responsible Hedonists

Emily Witt’s new book, Future Sex, captures the ways in which free love and countercultural experiments are no longer as liberating as they once seemed.

Nov 15, 2016 / Books & the Arts / J.C. Pan

Police surveillance

Americans Are Finding New Ways to Join the Surveillance State Americans Are Finding New Ways to Join the Surveillance State

Some of them aren’t pretty.

Nov 7, 2016 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Freud’s Discontents

Freud’s Discontents Freud’s Discontents

Why did one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers fade from significance?

Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn

Harvard Dining Workers protest

Harvard Workers Went On Strike and Won—Here’s How They Did It, and How Students Helped Harvard Workers Went On Strike and Won—Here’s How They Did It, and How Students Helped

Solidarity statements and op-eds are important, but direct actions are essential.

Oct 27, 2016 / Collin P. Poirot

Lockheed F-35 Jet Australia

No Matter Who Wins the Election, Military Spending Is Here to Stay No Matter Who Wins the Election, Military Spending Is Here to Stay

The military-industrial complex is alive and well, and it’s gobbling up your tax dollars.

Oct 25, 2016 / William D. Hartung

Junior doctors' strike

How I Found Heaven in a Public Hospital How I Found Heaven in a Public Hospital

Britain’s National Health Service is a cosmopolitan, welfare-state utopia—one that conservatives everywhere want to abolish.

Oct 21, 2016 / Frederika Randall

Man Walking

How (Not) to Fake Your Own Death How (Not) to Fake Your Own Death

Elizabeth Greenwood’s Playing Dead is a brilliant series of entertaining character reports, but her telling of what all the deceit and deletions add up to is unconvincing.

Oct 20, 2016 / Hannah Gold

This Mother Has Breast Cancer and Knows She Needs Treatment. Why Can’t She Get It?

This Mother Has Breast Cancer and Knows She Needs Treatment. Why Can’t She Get It? This Mother Has Breast Cancer and Knows She Needs Treatment. Why Can’t She Get It?

Actress America Ferrara speaks with an undocumented immigrant who is trapped without health care in Texas.

Oct 14, 2016 / The Nation

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