
A Turning Point in the Search for Victims of Forced Disappearance A Turning Point in the Search for Victims of Forced Disappearance
Women from Medellín’s Comuna 13 neighborhood have fought for 20 years to excavate a mass grave site. Now, the search has finally begun.
Nov 25, 2022 / Photo Essay / Hanna Wallis

Desmond Meade on Why Love Is “the Most Powerful Word in the Universe” Desmond Meade on Why Love Is “the Most Powerful Word in the Universe”
The executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition was homeless, addicted to crack, and suicidal. Now, he has met the president, been one of Time magazine’s 100 mos...
Nov 24, 2022 / Q&A / Karlos K. Hill

FDR Served Up a Critique of Capitalism With His Thanksgiving Proclamations FDR Served Up a Critique of Capitalism With His Thanksgiving Proclamations
The 32nd president regularly decried “greed and selfishness and striving for undue riches.”
Nov 24, 2022 / John Nichols

We’re Thankful for Our Abortions We’re Thankful for Our Abortions
Many people who have abortions celebrate their experience. Here's why my colleagues and I at We Testify are thankful.
Nov 24, 2022 / Nikiya Natale

The Undocumented Can Work Jobs at the University of California, and Latinas Are Fighting Toxic Pollution The Undocumented Can Work Jobs at the University of California, and Latinas Are Fighting Toxic Pollution
On this week's episode of Start Making Sense, UCLA law professor Ahilan Arulanantham and writer Eliza Moreno join the show.
Nov 23, 2022 / Podcast / Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense

Brittney Griner’s Jail Conditions Speak to the Urgency of Bringing Her Home Brittney Griner’s Jail Conditions Speak to the Urgency of Bringing Her Home
If the US doesn’t bring her back, the basketball star’s nine-year prison sentence in Russia’s “land of prisons” will likely be brutal.
Nov 23, 2022 / Dave Zirin

In a Historic Move, Frontline Communities Will Be Compensated for Climate Crisis Impacts In a Historic Move, Frontline Communities Will Be Compensated for Climate Crisis Impacts
At the UN climate negotiations, delegates celebrated the decision to create a mechanism by which developed countries will compensate developing countries for the havoc wreaked upon...
Nov 23, 2022 / Tina Gerhardt

Getting Adopted Didn’t Save Me Getting Adopted Didn’t Save Me
Two years after I left foster care, my adoptive mother became physically and emotionally abusive. Now, I'm choosing kindness over guilt.
Nov 23, 2022 / StudentNation / George Romero

How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky
The key was organizing, through which volunteers connected deeply, authentically, and vulnerably with voters who didn’t agree with them yet.
Nov 23, 2022 / Erin Heaney

The Upside to FTX’s Downfall The Upside to FTX’s Downfall
Congress has the chance to be bipartisan at last and regulate Big Tech.
Nov 22, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel