Statues Down!

A changing of the guard.

The “Credibility” Factor and Biden's Foreign Crises

The US must resist the impulse to intervene in Ukraine, Taiwan, and Iran.

How the Left Alienates Jews

Jewish voices are too often excluded from precisely the conversations they should be leading.

Ron Johnson Breaks His Term-Limit Pledge in Order to Keep Serving the Billionaire Class

The senator from Wisconsin announced his reelection run in The Wall Street Journal. Why? That’s the newspaper of his real constituents.

Joe Biden Delivers the Speech, and the Fire, on Voting Rights He Should Have Brought Last July

The president sought to shame anyone, including Democrats, who won’t change Senate rules to pass voting rights protection. But they might be shameless.

It's Time to Hold Law Firms Accountable for Their Role in Climate Change

Students are boycotting Gibson Dunn for representing the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, undermining the Indian Child Welfare Act, and more.

Lani Guinier Taught Me Almost Everything I Know About Voting Rights

A brilliant professor, she showed me how the old Confederacy never really gave up—not after the Civil War, not after the Voting Rights Act, not ever.

Letter to June Jordan in September

A poem by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

“You Come Out With Nothing”: What It Means to Bring Back the Box at Rikers

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has vowed to keep punitive segregation going in an attempt to curb the jails’ exploding violence. 

There Is Something Very Wrong With a Society That Scapegoats Its Teachers

It’s no accident that teachers are being attacked for everything from teaching about racism to asking for adequate Covid protections.

Whose Body Is It?

Choice on the line again.

What a Progressive Champion From Rural Maine Can Teach Democrats About Winning

Chloe Maxmin can show Democrats new paths to victory.

Why Georgia Voting Rights Groups Are Skipping Biden’s Atlanta Visit

Leaders say they want action, not just words, on federal voter protection. But don’t call their action a boycott.

Guantánamo Is Still “a Black Hole of Secrecy”

Twenty years have passed since the first prisoners landed blindfolded in orange jumpsuits and were caged in the US-run enclave—and press restrictions at Gitmo are only getting worse

This Is the Unbuilding of America

We’ve long inhabited a perilous world—one that has only grown more so as the decades have passed.

What Should the Left Do About China?

Progressive thinkers are developing a foreign policy approach that opposes military confrontation while acknowledging Beijing’s oppressive policies.

Rise of the Far-Right Ultras

In Far-Right Vanguard, John Huntington shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.

There Are No Heroes in Djokovic vs. Australia

While the tennis star is petulant and selfish, the Australian state is racist and arbitrary.

The Black Arts Movement’s Revolution in the South

A new book offers a sweeping history of the radical art and institutions created in the South by the Black Arts Movement.

Japanese Women Are Fighting Back Against Pervasive Sexism

The pay gap between men and women in Japan is nearly 25 percent.