Conservatives’ Real Fight Is for the Future of the Family Conservatives’ Real Fight Is for the Future of the Family
As misogyny and white supremacy are making a frightening comeback, conservatives have been emboldened to relitigate basic assumptions about women’s equality.
May 21, 2019 / Nicole Sussner Rodgers and Julie Kohler
Anthony Abraham Jack Wants to Redefine How We Think About College Campus Inequality Anthony Abraham Jack Wants to Redefine How We Think About College Campus Inequality
His new book, The Privileged Poor, examines the way elite colleges and universities welcome, and don’t welcome, students from the working classes.
May 17, 2019 / Q&A / Edwin Aponte
Where Did the South African Left Go Wrong? Where Did the South African Left Go Wrong?
The ANC has failed to tackle poverty and inequality—and will win the presidency anyway.
May 6, 2019 / Kenichi Serino
Notre Dame Is Not the Only Fire Worth Worrying Over Notre Dame Is Not the Only Fire Worth Worrying Over
The global response to climate change is akin to Paris completely ignoring the cathedral’s near destruction.
Apr 25, 2019 / Tom Engelhardt
Meet the Grown-Ups Keeping Kids Out of Prison Meet the Grown-Ups Keeping Kids Out of Prison
The Youth Correctional Leaders for Justice will help guide towns, cities, and states on how to close youth prisons for good.
Apr 8, 2019 / Ross Barkan
How Black Lives Matter to the Green New Deal How Black Lives Matter to the Green New Deal
Ocasio-Cortez makes the case for racial justice and reparations.
Mar 14, 2019 / Aaron Ross Coleman
Schools Are Policing Black Kids’ Hair, and Betsy DeVos Needs to Stop Them Schools Are Policing Black Kids’ Hair, and Betsy DeVos Needs to Stop Them
Efforts to “fix” black students’ hair are a vestige of our segregated past that deemed blackness inferior.
Mar 5, 2019 / StudentNation / Andre Perry
On March 15, the Climate Kids Are Coming On March 15, the Climate Kids Are Coming
A massive, international, youth-led mobilization will demand action on the climate crisis.
Mar 4, 2019 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
The Supreme Court Has Undone a Century of American Opposition to Sports Gambling The Supreme Court Has Undone a Century of American Opposition to Sports Gambling
Legal sports gambling would generate some of the very problems that the revenue from sports gambling would purportedly solve.
Feb 25, 2019 / Ronald Katz
The Cost of Being a War Resister in Israel The Cost of Being a War Resister in Israel
A 19-year-old Israeli was jailed six times after refusing military service.
Feb 25, 2019 / Rory Fanning