Some Kids Have Returned to In-Person Learning Only to Be Kicked Right Back Out

While some school districts are responding to a pandemic-driven surge in student misbehavior with mental health support and disciplinary alternatives, others are suspending kids.

What We Owe People Experiencing Homelessness in the US

Much of the foundational data about Covid-19 came from people without housing and those who work with them.

Biden Asks the Best Question: “What Are Republicans For?”

At his press conference, the president tried to get the media to examine the GOP as intensely as they grilled him about his poll numbers and inflation troubles. It’s unlikely to work.

Fighting for Fair Representation in North Carolina

District maps approved by the Republican-dominated state legislature disadvantage black communities. Locals are trying to change that before the next Census.

How to Change the NFL’s Racist Hiring Practices

There is now one Black head coach in the NFL, and the league could buckle under the weight of its bigotry.

Fins Twisting

What lies beneath.

I Am a Man

Black Lives Matter.

Rand Paul Abandons His Hippocratic Oath to Play Politics During a Pandemic

The senator from Kentucky’s “Fire Fauci” crusade is a crude scheme to exploit fears and raise campaign cash, and Dr. Anthony Fauci called him out on it.

Learning From Decades of Public Health Failure

A conversation with George Aumoithe on the history of disease prevention, the economic roots of the crisis American hospitals face, and why we need to do better.

How Do We Confront White Christian Nationalism?

While it’s only one feature of the authoritarianism increasingly on vivid display in this country, it’s critical to understand.

Why I Divested My Bank Account and You Should Too

I couldn’t accept doing business with one of the world’s greatest financiers of fossil fuels.

Lessons From Louise Glück

A conversation with the poet and Nobel laureate about her career, teaching, her next book, and more.

Redistricting, Restrictions

Destroying women’s rights.

The Radical Vision of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes

Murdered by gangsters on a dictator’s orders in 1981, these pathbreaking Filipino labor organizers fought for union democracy.

Toward Bakersfield

A poem by Brendan Constantine

Akwasi Frimpong’s Struggle to Represent Africa at the Winter Olympics

The IOC bureaucracy should let the skeleton competitor claim his rightful place at the Beijing Games.

If the Senate Fails to Act, Voting Is Not the Only Freedom on the Line

The same state legislators who are attacking voting rights are pushing ever-more-extreme bans and restrictions on abortion rights and access.

Stop the Stumble Toward War With Russia

The last thing we need is a war by proxy or, God forbid, directly with the Russians.

How Exxon Is Leveraging Texas Courts to Silence Its Climate Critics

America’s largest oil firm claims its history of publicly denying the climate crisis is protected by the First Amendment.

Columbia University Has Lost Its Way

The Ivy League institution’s approach to the contract negotiations with its grad student workers reveals how it has evolved into a predatory business.