The Best to You Each Morning

Palintology. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of December 20.

Founding Godfathers

Mobster Sam Giancana once went as far as to tell his brother that the Mafia and the CIA were “two sides of the same coin."

This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of a Habitable Planet

The US economy depends on consumers consuming and the earth depends on us not consuming. Which are we going to choose?

A Million Afghan Children Could Starve This Winter. Are US Sanctions to Blame?

Partly as a result of US policy, Afghanistan’s economy is expected to contract by 30 percent.

When Whiny, Incompetent Nazis Lost Big

The civil trial of the white supremacists who planned the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 brought some measure of justice. But the threat of violence still looms large.

The Black Core of the Culture War

Something happened to Black discourse on the way to the backlash—and that’s no joke.

What Columbia Student Workers Are Asking For

The university has finally agreed to respond to striking workers’ proposals. Here’s what’s at stake.

The Pandemic Shows Why We Need Universal Health Care

Why does the richest country in the world have the most Covid deaths? A primary reason is that the United States does not have a free, universal health care system.

Start the Steal

Home-cooking.

The Trap of Climate Optimism

Dan Sherrell’s Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World shows us a new way to tell the story of how we might cope and survive a future of catastrophe.

West Virginians Give Manchin a Lump of Coal for Christmas

Manchin claims his constituents are happy with his abandonment of Build Back Better. Miners and other residents say that just isn’t so.

How Students Seized The Year

It’s been another tumultuous, traumatic year, but young people continue to organize.

We Mobilized Young People to Support Biden. He’s Failing Us.

Sunrise and United We Dream youth organizers trusted Biden and the Democrats to really get things done. They are failing to follow through on campaign promises.

What the Pandemic Has Taught Us About American Democracy

A conversation with Danielle Allen about the strengths and faults of federalism during our health crisis. 

Comfortable Clothes, Uncomfortable Bias

Prejudice costs lives.

Pramila Jayapal Is Not Having Any of Your Nonsense

The progressive leader discusses her last call with Joe Manchin, her frustration with the idea that “the Squad” and Bernie Sanders were right and she was wrong, and her determination to get a bill through… somehow.

Soul Train and the Desire for Black Power

Don Cornelius’s faith that Black culture would attract a mass audience—and his devout belief that Black culture should be in the hands of Black people—make the program he created a radical touchstone 50 years after its debut.

As Covid Surges Again, Decarceration Is More Necessary Than Ever

American jails and prisons have become increasingly deadly places. Lawmakers must stop putting off the real solution.

The US Military Is Bulldozing Sacred Indigenous Sites on Guam

Indigenous residents are fighting to save their island’s heritage, while the military refuses to release key information about what it is razing.

The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is an Indictment of US Health Care

What might have happened if taxpayers—rather than investors—had directly funded Theranos’s blood-prick research?