It’s Time to Rethink Everything About How We Fight Fires It’s Time to Rethink Everything About How We Fight Fires
The LA disaster is a wake-up call: Our firefighting playbook was written for a world that no longer exists. We need a new approach, and we need it now.
Jan 14, 2025 / Lazo Gitchos
An Appeal to President Biden: Pardon Billie Allen An Appeal to President Biden: Pardon Billie Allen
Biden’s decision to commute Allen’s death sentence deserves praise and gratitude, but the president should go even further—and free an innocent man.
Jan 14, 2025 / Yusef Salaam
Letters From the February 2025 Issue Letters From the February 2025 Issue
Systemic failure… Industry capture…
Jan 14, 2025 / Our Readers
Let’s Cool It With the Hot Takes Let’s Cool It With the Hot Takes
Much of the immediate commentary on the election turned out to be wrong. If we want to avoid the same outcome in the future, we'd better slow down.
Jan 14, 2025 / Column / Katha Pollitt
First World? First World?
In 2018, President Trump referred to African countries, Haiti, and El Salvador as "shithole" nations during a meeting regarding immigration.
Jan 13, 2025 / OppArt / Judy Polstra
Despite Trump’s Felony Conviction, Prosecutorial Liberalism Has Failed Despite Trump’s Felony Conviction, Prosecutorial Liberalism Has Failed
When voters are consumed with anti-system rage, a criminal rap sheet is no barrier to high office.
Jan 13, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Antony Blinken’s Legacy Is Buried Under the Rubble of Gaza Antony Blinken’s Legacy Is Buried Under the Rubble of Gaza
Despite valedictory speeches, the secretary of state will be remembered not for his successes—or his guitar playing—but for the humanitarian catastrophe he aided and abetted.
Jan 13, 2025 / Jonathan Guyer
The Worlds of Noam Chomsky The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.
Jan 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Bessner
TikTok’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in Court TikTok’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in Court
Most of the justices seemed unpersuaded by TikTok's arguments against the ban on the company—but that doesn’t meant TikTok is gone forever (cue Donald Trump…)
Jan 10, 2025 / Elie Mystal