This Is What the First Hours of a Near-Total Ban on Abortion Look Like

The Texas law SB 8 will force abortion clinics in the state to turn away about 80 percent of all patients.

The Taliban Is Targeting Disability Rights Activists

Because of their association with the United States, many members of disability-rights organizations in Afghanistan are at risk.

Why Won’t TV News Say “Climate Change” About Hurricane Ida?

It’s media malpractice not to mention that burning fossil fuels drives extreme weather events.

Afghanistan’s Women Face the Taliban

An oppressive regime fills the vacuum.

The Costs of 20 Years of War

Two decades of war caused the deaths of nearly 1 million people and will cost US taxpayers more than $8 trillion.

What Can Democrats Do to Fight Texas’s Abortion Ban? Lots.

The only question is how far Democrats are willing to go to defend women’s rights.

Fall of Oppression

A mural created in Bushwick, New York City, in cooperation with the arts group Groundswell.

Go Ahead, Worry! A Worst-Case Scenario for American Democracy

The American far right has transformed politics in unprecedented ways. Can this be reversed?

New Jersey Hasn’t Defeated ICE Yet

Despite passing a landmark bill banning new contracts with the agency, there’s still a long way to go to truly abolish it at the state level.

Can “Lottocracy” Save Democracy From Itself?

Hélène Landemore’s new book argues that we need a new, more inclusive system of governance that is less elitist and more participatory to cure what ails democracy.

How Do You Tell the Story of a Fire?

A conversation with reporter Lizzie Johnson about the aftermath of wildfires and the human cost of neglected infrastructure.     

The Appeal of Ordinary Millennial Experience

Rainesford Stauffer proposes a different way to understand a generation defined by precarity and overwork.

Ed Asner, American Socialist

The actor, who died Sunday, championed democratic socialism long before Bernie Sanders ran for president.

Vaccine News

Tragicomic portraits of a comic tragedy.

America Can Afford Biden’s Investments at Home. Look at How Much It Spent on Wars.

It is not enough—but it’s a start.

The Rhetoric of Pop Psychology

Jesse Singal’s takedown of trendy science aimed at fixing human behavior in The Quick Fix reveals the limits of a certain strand of journalism.

“Roe v. Wade” Will Functionally Cease to Exist in Texas

Unless the Supreme Court steps in, the country’s most dangerous anti-abortion law will go into effect, banning abortions after six weeks and placing a cash bounty on providers.

On September 1, 1971, the Pittsburgh Pirates Made Baseball History

There are many factors behind the “cleansing” of African Americans from a sport to which we were so essential for most of the 20th century.

I’m a Legal Asylum Seeker. Why Can’t I Work?

Trump-era regulations are forcing asylum seekers like me to beg for help.

Barbara Lee Has to Vote

Twenty years after her historic vote against invading Afghanistan, the California congresswoman is still speaking up and taking action.