A New “March of Folly” in Europe: Can It Be Averted?

There is an urgent need for a diplomatic resolution.

The Tularosa Downwinders Have Waited 75 Years for Justice

Even though the first atomic bomb exploded in their state, New Mexicans were never compensated for the health consequences of nuclear contamination. These campaigners have vowed to change that.

American Roulette

Gun violence soars amid the pandemic.

Biden’s Pledges to Palestinians—a Year of Disappointment

The new administration promised a policy based on valuing Palestinian and Israeli lives equally. That promise has not been kept.

John Roberts Gets an F on His Annual Report

The chief justice’s year-end appraisal of the federal judiciary reads as innocuous at first glance—it’s anything but.

Henry Cuellar’s Corporate Ties

The Texas Democrat and members of his staff have unsettling links to the oil and private prison industries.

“If These Demands Are Not Met, We Will Be Striking by Not Attending School”

An interview with Ayleen Serrano and Nikayla Dean, organizers of Oakland’s student Covid protests.

The Making of a Coronavirus-Criminal Presidency

If you want to know how the US ended up in a pandemic with a swindler president who could not be bothered to take basic steps to save lives, don’t start with Trump.

The Past and Future of Native California

A new book retells California’s history through the experience of its Native peoples.

Urban Space, Infinite Universe

The natural world is all around us.

Radical Change

Who knew? Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of January 17.

The Cruel, Petty Killing of an Anti-Occupation Activist

Hajj Suleiman, an elder of the anti-occupation movement, was run over by a tow truck while protesting an Israeli “operation” to confiscate cars in his village.

Democrats Failed Forward on Voting Rights

Biden forced the Republicans, and two Democrats, to go on record saying voting rights don’t matter—or at least, not more than preserving the filibuster.

Concrete Actions Toward Worker Power

Three hundred Teamsters in the Seattle area are bringing the local construction industry to a standstill.

We Don’t Need Better Missiles—We Need Disarmament

Our generals know one word, and it’s not “win”—it’s more.

We Wouldn’t Be in This Mess if D.C. Were a State

The problem in the Senate runs deeper than Sinema and Manchin. It’s an unrepresentative chamber that must be made more representative. 

On Hunger Strike for Voting Rights

Unite Here Local 11 has repeatedly reached out to Kyrsten Sinema to express deep dismay at the prospect that the several voter protection bills circulating in D.C. won’t pass in the Senate.

Mitch McConnell’s Klanian Slip

In saying the quiet part out loud, McConnell confirmed what many of us already knew: White people think they’re the only true Americans.

Washington’s Dominion Is Ending—but Not Without a Struggle

We’re witnessing an epochal decline in American global power.

Terry Teachout and the Last of the Conservative Critics

He was a generation younger than Joan Didion and her cohort of critics who got their start at National Review. With his death, their strain of criticism seems not only rare but perhaps extinct.