Society

Garrett Broshuis

How Minor League Ballplayers Won a Union How Minor League Ballplayers Won a Union

The players who make America’s pastime possible have had enough of dismal working conditions, and they’re organizing to change them.

Mar 6, 2023 / Feature / Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier

Why Do Republicans Keep Pretending to Be Jewish?

Why Do Republicans Keep Pretending to Be Jewish? Why Do Republicans Keep Pretending to Be Jewish?

The GOP keeps running candidates who have discovered they can benefit from these highly cynical identity hoaxes.

Mar 4, 2023 / Column / Alexis Grenell

The Costs and Contradictions of Ballet

The Costs and Contradictions of Ballet The Costs and Contradictions of Ballet

Alice Robb’s Don’t Think, Dear and Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s What You Become in Flight explore both the liberating sense of art and the domineering logic of ballet.

Mar 4, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Glory Liu

Leonard Leo speaks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on April 23, 2019. Leo is an Executive Vice President with the Federalist Society and a confidant of President Trump.

Fix the Courts by Investigating Federalist Society Sleaze Fix the Courts by Investigating Federalist Society Sleaze

The powerful right-wing organization faces serious conflict-of-interest allegations.

Mar 3, 2023 / Jeet Heer

Forever Chemicals

Forever Chemicals Forever Chemicals

Silent spring sequel.

Mar 3, 2023 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

People carry representations of ballot boxes on their heads during a march in Mexico City on March 21st, 2021. The demonstration was held to protest the proposed Electoral Reform presented by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Protests Against AMLO’s Reforms Reveal the Strongholds of Mexico’s Ancien Régime Protests Against AMLO’s Reforms Reveal the Strongholds of Mexico’s Ancien Régime

The so-called “defense of the INE” has become the rallying cry of an opposition incapable of winning broad public support.

Mar 3, 2023 / José Luis Granados Ceja

Marjorie Taylor Greene's outfit at the State of the Union address

Yuh-Line Niou on the Politics of Clothing Yuh-Line Niou on the Politics of Clothing

There is always a politics to clothing choices—especially if you’re a political figure subject to media scrutiny.

Mar 3, 2023 / Yuh-Line Niou

Wisconsin state Supreme Court candidates Waukesha County Judge Jennifer Dorow, former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly, Dane County Judge Everett Mitchell, and Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz

“This Is Our Referendum on Abortion”: Wisconsin’s Critical Race “This Is Our Referendum on Abortion”: Wisconsin’s Critical Race

The race for Wisconsin’s next Supreme Court justice has quickly become the most important election of the year.

Mar 3, 2023 / John Nichols for The Nation

The NELK boys meeting Donald Trump on Air Force One in 2020

Meet the YouTube Bros Who Might Help Trump Win in 2024 Meet the YouTube Bros Who Might Help Trump Win in 2024

The NELK boys are worshipped by millions of young men and are closely tied to the MAGA movement. Democrats should start paying attention.

Mar 3, 2023 / Ari Rabin-Havt

Protesters rally in support of the Biden administration's student debt relief plan

Student Debtors Need the Supreme Court to Not Be Wildly Unprincipled for a Change Student Debtors Need the Supreme Court to Not Be Wildly Unprincipled for a Change

For Biden’s student debt plan to survive, the court’s conservatives have to do something they hate doing: apply their rules consistently.

Mar 2, 2023 / Cristian Farias

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