Corporate America Cashed In on 9/11

The Pentagon’s spending surge made corporations a windfall.

The Battle for Thacker Pass

In Nevada’s high desert, environmentalists, Indigenous organizers, and ranchers have locked arms to block a lithium mine.

Is There a Better Way to Tell the Story of Nonhuman Life?

Thalia Field’s Personhood challenges us to examine how human language has made it harder to care for the natural world.

Biden Wasn’t Elected to Scold Racist Border Agents—He Was Elected to Stop Them

The White House bears full responsibility for the Border Patrol agents caught whipping Haitian migrants at the US-Mexico border.

December 3, 1975

A poem by Cathy Linh Che

Dear Death

Sexual harassment impacts millions of women around the world.

School Shootings Are More Than Just an American Issue

Over the past two decades, America has seen more than two dozen deadly school shootings. This year, gun violence in schools has spread to Russia.

Congress’s Climate Bill Is a Major Story. Journalists Are Missing the Most Important Part.

If the US doesn’t get this right before November’s climate summit, it’ll severely limit the country’s power to influence global climate action.

Berlin Votes on Whether to Expropriate Corporate Landlords

Instead of just complaining about the city’s rampant gentrification, the Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen campaign offers Berliners a chance to do something to increase the supply of affordable housing overnight.

Has Big Pharma Bought Enough Democrats to Derail Biden’s Plan?

If Democrats allow the party’s Manchinema wing to derail prescription drug pricing reforms, they could lose their ability to govern.

Dana Spiotta’s Political Fiction

In her new novel, Wayward, Spiotta offers an intricate portrait of how one woman experienced the uncertain days and months after Trump’s election.

A Tough Candidate Forum in Virginia Previews the GOP Playbook for 2022

Democratic delegate Nancy Guy is facing an über-Trumper using culture war garbage against her. And it could work.

Pick Up the Stone: The American Way of Vengeance

The line from defeat in Afghanistan to deputizing bounty hunters in Texas can be traced in blood—and history.

China Is Dismantling Hong Kong’s Unions

Empowered workers would be a threat to the Chinese Communist Party.

Uniting Against the American War Machine

Twenty years and trillions of dollars later, the US counterinsurgency in Afghanistan failed—so when will we stop rewarding the military-industrial complex?

Debate and Controversy Make History Education Better

Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States didn’t make students hate America—and nor does Critical Race Theory or the 1619 Project.

OSHA Can Do Much More to Prevent Covid Transmission at Work

Biden’s vaccine mandate for employees is good—but making employers responsible for covid safety measures would be even better.

Herd Immunity: Covid Deaths Devouring the South Are No Accident

For Scott Atlas, as for Republican governors like Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Tate Reeves, and Kay Ivey, the human cost of our shredded public health system is a feature, not a bug.

Covid Strikes Homeless Housing

Honoring lives lost during the lockdown.

Russia’s War Against the Cold

A new history considers how the struggle with Siberia’s permafrost redefined the country.