Society

Mother Earth

Mother Earth Mother Earth

Mother’s Day and Earth Day, every day.

May 7, 2021 / OppArt / Sylvia Hernández

Climate Justice Is About More Than Just Fossil Fuels

Climate Justice Is About More Than Just Fossil Fuels Climate Justice Is About More Than Just Fossil Fuels

A true commitment to climate justice is much broader: It necessarily entails building local resilience to climate impacts.

May 7, 2021 / StudentNation / Matthew Sehrsweeney

Bill and Melinda Gates

Is the Shine Starting to Come Off Bill Gates’s Halo? Is the Shine Starting to Come Off Bill Gates’s Halo?

The billionaire’s role in perpetuating vaccine apartheid in the name of protecting intellectual property rights has begun to draw criticism.

May 7, 2021 / Tim Schwab

Guantanamo Protest

Can Guantánamo Ever Be Shut Down? Can Guantánamo Ever Be Shut Down?

Dealing with the forever prison of America’s endless wars.

May 7, 2021 / Karen J. Greenberg

Arizona voters

The Arizona GOP’s Attack on Democracy The Arizona GOP’s Attack on Democracy

The Republican Party is determined to hold power, even against the will of the electorate. But working-class immigrants are fighting back.

May 7, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky

Phillies Giants Baseball Game

Sports Unions Come Together to Fight for the PRO Act Sports Unions Come Together to Fight for the PRO Act

The sports unions for basketball, baseball, football, and hockey have combined forces—and the labor movement is stronger for it.

May 6, 2021 / Dave Zirin

Striking Nurses

Nurses Are Striking Across the Country Over Patient Safety Nurses Are Striking Across the Country Over Patient Safety

The pandemic—and widespread frustration over unsafe working conditions—has triggered a wave of strikes in hospitals from Massachusetts to Hawaii.

May 6, 2021 / Sarah Jaffe and C.M. Lewis

Stacey Abrams

Heroes: Stacy Abrams Heroes: Stacy Abrams

Fighting the GOP’s voter suppression.

May 6, 2021 / OppArt / Kate Sullivan

Virgina Woolf

Helpful Men: Defending Philip Roth, Dismissing Virginia Woolf Helpful Men: Defending Philip Roth, Dismissing Virginia Woolf

Like most women who write, I live my life according to the firmly stated judgments of literary men.

May 6, 2021 / Alyssa Harad

Hello, Poetry, You ‘Lamenting Pleasure’

Hello, Poetry, You ‘Lamenting Pleasure’ Hello, Poetry, You ‘Lamenting Pleasure’

Reading poetry over the phone, David Ferry and loved ones find an antidote to loneliness.

May 5, 2021 / Elizabeth Emma Ferry and Stephen Ferry

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