The Cure for Child Homelessness: Affordable Housing

As a pediatrician in the San Francisco Bay area, I have seen how housing insecurity can damage the mental and physical health of kids.

Theater Kids and the End Times in “Station Eleven”

The HBO adaptation of Emily St. Mandel’s postapocalyptic pandemic novel examines, with mixed results, the endurance of art after society collapses.

While Afghans Tried to Flee, Boris Johnson… Saved Dogs?

Leaked e-mails suggest the British PM OK’d the evacuation of rescue pets from Afghanistan last August—and they speak volumes about the occupation.

Protect Our Kids

Ban books.

Muhammad Ali Was Our Last Great American Hero

The American dream may be coming apart at the seams, but the glory of The Greatest is in full flower and still growing. Why?

Dividing Up the Autism Spectrum Will Not End the Way You Think

The Lancet’s proposal to create a new label of “profound autism” serves only to distract us from the work of ensuring that all autistic people have everything they need to thrive.

Putin, Put’n, and Peace in Ukraine

How we can emerge from crisis without war.

Barry Bonds’s Hall of Fame Opponents Can’t Handle the Truth

A mess of hypocrisy and bias has kept history’s best hitter out of the Hall.

Bad MAUSkeeping

M&M. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of January 24.

She Ran on a Platform of “Radical Love.” Now She’s Facing Radical Hate.

Harlem’s new city councilwoman is finally getting media attention—and death threats—for sending condolences to the family of a man accused of murdering two cops.

Ah Quon McElrath and the Power of Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity

The Chinese Hawai’ian labor activist and social worker would ask, “Look, you are exploited, what are you going to do about it?”

Pre-Pandemic Carbon

Levels are back.

We Don’t Need a Department of Homeland Security

Since 9/11, we’ve overfunded a second Pentagon capable of focusing on whatever it considers to be most politically expedient.

A Transformative Green New Deal Requires Inclusive Manufacturing

Without a new approach to manufacturing, we may protect the environment better but continue to reinforce racial and economic inequality.

Ron Johnson’s Reelection Strategy Is to Amplify Covid Conspiracy Theories

The Wisconsinite is using the Senate as a platform to amplify discredited doctors who are more worried about vaccines than Covid.

The GOP Dials Up Its Attacks on Critical Race Theory

The campaigns are focused on racially diverse communities with declining numbers of white students that are located in politically competitive districts.

The Sublime Ironies of John Ashbery

Does his first posthumous collection, Parallel Movement of the Hands, help answer the riddle of his poetic project? 

How the Democratic Party Alienates Young Jews: A Reply to Alexis Grenell

A young generation of Jews are changing the rules of our community’s political positions, and all of us need to catch up.

“There Is No Military Solution Out of This Ukraine Crisis”

Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Barbara Lee warn against posturing that might make it more difficult to find “a diplomatic way out of this crisis.”

The Homeless Shelter on Billionaires' Row

Residents of the wealthy block in New York City spent a fortune fighting against it. Now, they’ve got to learn to live with it.