This Thanksgiving, I’m Grateful for a President Who Believes in Science

I spend a lot of time criticizing the Biden-Harris administration, but here are a few words of thanks.

Our Blind Faith in the Military Will Destroy Us

Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you worship.

Who Killed Thomas Sankara?

Can a trial set the record straight about the assassination of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary Marxist leader?

Diane di Prima and the Dream of the East Village Avant-Garde

The poet’s recently released memoir of the 1960s, Spring and Autumn Annals, is an essential document in the history of New York’s downtown art scene.

Black Women Matter

Portraits of serenity.

The Radical World of Chicago’s Black Comic Artists

An anthology of Black comic book makers from the the postwar era offers a glimpse into a genre of art that skewered the bigotry of white liberalism.  

Before the Storm: How Do You Know When to Go?

Even on the eve of a Category 4 hurricane, choosing to leave is never easy.

Bannon’s Plea

Come clean.

The Excommunication of Liz Cheney

It’s another sign that the GOP has become a cult of Trump.

Harvard and Yale Should Do More Than Just Divest

Two years ago, climate activists stormed the field during a Harvard-Yale football game to protest fossil fuel investments. What has changed since then?

Life in West Virginia’s “Quiet Zone”

A recent book by journalist Stephen Kurczy examines what happens in a vast swath of the country where wireless signal is limited and carefully regulated.

Francia Márquez Mina Confronts Colombia’s “Politics of Death”

The first Black woman to run for president in Colombia has ignited a movement.

On the Overnight from Agadir

A poem by Charif Shanahan

Who Can Purchase a Gun?

Lowest bar, highest death toll.

Purge at DSA: Why Are Activists Trying to Expel Representative Bowman?

Jamaal Bowman’s victory over Eliot Engel, former chair of the House Foreign Relations committee, was celebrated by the left. Now, some in the socialist organization are calling for the New York Democrat’s ouster. What gives?

Potential Legislation on China Amounts to a New Cold War

The $250 billion "Innovation and Competition Act" leverages industrial policy to ratchet up militarization and potentially instigate global conflict.

Donald Duck Quacks Again as Chile Elects a New President

A half-century after it fed the Pinochet regime’s bonfire of heretical books, a celebrated “handbook of decolonization” has new relevance to a country on the brink of a momentous choice.

The Whiniest Nazis Could Still Destroy Our Country

It’s easy to mock the white supremacists on trial for planning the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville—but that shouldn’t distract us from how frightening they are.

Where Is Peng Shuai? And What Is the IOC Going to Do About It?

With the 2022 Beijing Olympics looming, the IOC’s silence in the case of a missing tennis star who accused a Chinese official of sexual assault speaks volumes.

The Withering Away of the States Can’t Happen Soon Enough

It’s time for a new federalism that brings suburbs and central cities together to promote equity, growth, and sustainability.