How the Pandemic Threw Fuel on a Growing Housing Movement

Organizers and activists hope the pandemic has changed how America thinks of housing for good.

Fossil Fuel, Fuels Doom

Oil companies spend millions to stop climate action.

Members of Congress Shouldn’t Be Getting Rich From Trading Stocks

Last year, over a hundred members of Congress bought and sold nearly $290 million in stocks and beat the market.

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Unfinished Work of Abolishing Poverty

Democrats failed to embrace his Freedom Budget for All Americans in the 1960s. That failure needs to be addressed today with a bold program to abolish poverty and injustice.

Rebecca Solnit Is Not Giving Up Hope

An interview with the essayist about the need for bread and roses—especially in perilous times.

Rebuild and Revive

Nature needs us to act now.

The Protest Movement and the Protest Government

No one acquainted with right-wing media can doubt that anger over the 2020 riots—in Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, Philadelphia, and elsewhere—fed the wildness of the January 6 riot.

Hitch ’22

Fauci floaters. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of January 10.

Workers Are Paying the Price for Kroger’s Profits

A survey of 10,000 grocery-store employees lays out the job’s human cost.

Welcome to the New Cold War

Whatever Washington might say about peaceful competition, the Biden administration has no intention of allowing China to achieve parity with the United States.

Gavin Newsom’s New Budget Proposal Expands Health Care to the Undocumented

It’s a huge step toward universal health care coverage.

How the Navajo Nation Beat Back Covid

The community once the hardest hit is now one of the safest in the United States.

Strange and Intimate Encounters With Kathy Acker

In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark revisits Acker’s work to fashion a different kind of literary theory—one more personal and erotic.

Natalie Eilbert, by User 4357

A poem by Natalie Eilbert

Automated Warfare Is Nothing New

It didn’t just start with drones—and it won’t stop with them.

Madison Cawthorn’s Incitement of Insurrection Should Knock Him Off the Ballot

The Republican representative’s words and deeds disqualify him from office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

Will Democracy Die Before Our Eyes?

This isn’t a dress rehearsal.

The Texas Abortion Ban Could Usher in a Wave of Pregnancy-Related Deaths

“When you deny people the opportunity to have a safe abortion procedure and replace it with the higher risk of continuing pregnancies, more people are going to die.”

Overthrow Democracy?

A scorecard for the next coup.

Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering

The poet’s memoir Generations is both a chronicle of her ancestral lineage and lesson in the centrality of Black women to the story of American history.