‘Hopefully This Will All Be Over Soon’ and Other Evasions ‘Hopefully This Will All Be Over Soon’ and Other Evasions
Fukushima, Covid, rampant suicide—we’re asked to overcome, to forget, but healing requires confrontation.
Mar 24, 2021 / Lisa Torio
Kazuo Ishiguro at the End of the End of History Kazuo Ishiguro at the End of the End of History
In his new novel Klara and the Sun, the British novelist offers us a narrative as much about our own world as about any imagined future.
Mar 24, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Katie Fitzpatrick
Bernie Backs Covid Nurses Who Are Prepared to Strike for Humane Work Conditions Bernie Backs Covid Nurses Who Are Prepared to Strike for Humane Work Conditions
The Vermont senator’s championship of a Wisconsin health care union’s demand for a contract respecting work-life balance signals a new era of labor solidarity.
Mar 19, 2021 / John Nichols
Will the NFL Survive the New Science of Brain Damage? Will the NFL Survive the New Science of Brain Damage?
A new study moves us one step closer to diagnosing CTE in the living, which could turn football on its head.
Mar 18, 2021 / Dave Zirin
The Essential Pandemic Relief Bill Is Medicare for All The Essential Pandemic Relief Bill Is Medicare for All
Covid-19 further revealed that a for-profit health care system doesn’t work. A coalition of House Democrats has reintroduced the bill that secures health care as a human right.
Mar 18, 2021 / John Nichols
Covid-19 Is Big Business. But Who’s Making a Killing? Covid-19 Is Big Business. But Who’s Making a Killing?
You’d think that in a pandemic, the fate of billions of people around the planet would be the first priority of our governments rather catering to the pharmaceutical industry. But ...
Mar 18, 2021 / Gregg Gonsalves
Awaiting a Second Spring, and the Growth of Living Things Awaiting a Second Spring, and the Growth of Living Things
On gardens, fellow feeling, and whether “we’re all in this together” shall transcend cliché, on the cusp of another surreal spring.
Mar 17, 2021 / Asam Ahmad
Postcards From Restaurant-Land Postcards From Restaurant-Land
Labor and loneliness one year later.
Mar 15, 2021 / Jason Kotoch
Biden’s 100 Days So Far Biden’s 100 Days So Far
Reviewing the year, month by month.
Mar 15, 2021 / OppArt / India Tresselt
How One Cozy Relationship Influenced Cuomo’s Covid Response How One Cozy Relationship Influenced Cuomo’s Covid Response
The story begins before the coronavirus hit New York state.
Mar 12, 2021 / Ross Barkan