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A Man’s Guide to Abortion
You don’t have to be a woman to stand up for reproductive rights.
By Katha Pollitt in the Nation.
The European Far Right’s Environmental Turn
As climate change becomes a central concern for voters across the continent, right-wing parties are beginning to incorporate green politics into their ethno-nationalist vision.
By Kate Aronoff in Dissent.
I Won’t Let Racism Rob My Black Child of Joy
As I prepared for the birth of my first child, I could already see that I would need a plan in order to avoid succumbing to fear.
By Dani McClain in TIME.
Sara Nelson Is Not Afraid to Strike Back
For the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, radical politics starts in the workplace.
By Sarah Jaffe in the Nation.
Power Plays in the Anti-Semitic Blame Game
As capitalism starts to crumble, hate finds a familiar foothold.
By Sarah Jaffe in the New Republic.
A Radical Reunion: Harvard’s Student Strikers, 50 Years Later
We are older, grayer, and for the most part, more rotund—but our commitments to left politics haven’t changed.
By Katha Pollitt in the Nation.
After the 2018 Blue Wave, Republicans Are Making It Harder to Vote
Key battleground states like Florida are adopting new voter suppression laws before the 2020 election.
By Ari Berman in Mother Jones.
High Levels of Toxic PFAS Chemicals Pollute Breast Milk Around the World
PFAS chemicals are used in nonstick pans, firefighting foam, and hundreds of other products.
By Sharon Lerner in the Intercept.
What’s It Like to Be Young, Queer, and the Mayor?
Over tea, Samantha Paradis discusses the challenges of running a small town in rural Maine.
By Naomi Gordon-Loebl in The Nation.
A Search for Answers. A Search for Blame.
In grieving Parkland, there’s a fight ripping the community apart. And it has nothing to do with gun control.
By Kathryn Joyce in Highline.
Ways to Save the World
If we really want to make a difference this Earth Day, we have to confront the problem of climate change at its source.
By Kate Aronoff in the Progressive.
A Message From the Future
What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like then?
By Naomi Klein in the Intercept.
Eliza Griswold wins the Ridenhour Book Prize
In Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, Griswold told the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Sheri Fink presented her with the prize.
Alexandria Bombach wins the Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize
On Her Shoulders followed Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi woman who survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS, then told her story to politicians and media, including at the United Nations. Murad was one of the two winners of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. Ronit Avni presented her with the prize.
Dr. Scott Allen, Dr. Pamela McPherson, and Scott Shuchart win the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling
The group of Department of Homeland Security whistleblowers challenged family separation and child detention at the border. Dr. Collen Kraft presented them with the prize.
George Soros wins the Ridenhour Courage Prize
Soros has dedicated his life to promoting the values of open society, human rights, and transparency around the world. Heather McGhee presented him with the prize.
How the Media Launders Fossil Fuel Industry Propaganda Through Branded Content
Native advertising has spread misinformation on everything from the “superfood” moringa to Thai seafood slavery, and has raised serious questions about journalistic ethics.
By Sharon Lerner in the Intercept.
Still Funding Confederacy
For more than 100 years, the Virginia and other former slave states have been subsidizing not only Confederate cemeteries, but many of the hundreds of Confederate monuments and “heritage” sites that mark public space across the South.
By Brian Palmer in Richmond Free Press.
Right Makes Might
Long before Trump came on the scene, key congressional Republicans had been sidling up to nativist and authoritarian leaders across the globe.
By Sarah Posner in the New Republic.
Inside the Surveillance Program IBM Built for Rodrigo Duterte
IBM partnered with Philippine law enforcement despite evidence of police complicity in death squads.
By George Joseph in the Intercept.
Beto O’Rourke, friend of the fossil fuel industry, is no climate hero
O’Rourke wants to be everything to everyone. To take a look back at his career, that’s an invitation he’s extended to the fossil fuel industry.
By Kate Aronoff in the Guardian.
Young People Feel Betrayed by Adults Over the Climate Crisis. Today, They’re Going on Strike.
For her 16th Birthday, Maddy Fernands asked her parents for an unusual gift: to switch the family to wind power.
By Sharon Lerner in the Intercept.
States Crack Down on Broker Abuse as the SEC Dithers
Wall Street and investor advocates face off over stockbrokers’ obligations to their customers.
By Susan Antilla in the Intercept.
The End of the City on a Hill
A burgeoning alliance with Europe’s far right is radically altering the Christian right’s view of American democracy.
By Sarah Posner in VICE Magazine.
Gary Younge: ‘Our understanding of democracy is under threat’
Our editor-at-large on the six US elections he’s covered so far, the upheaval in politics – and why many Republicans like him.
Gary Younge interviewed by the Guardian.
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A Second Federal Court Just Struck Down the 2020 Census Citizenship Question
A court said the question “threatens the very foundation of our democratic system.”
By Ari Berman in Mother Jones.
If Democrats lure Amazon back to NYC, they won’t be forgiven
The US economy needs investments that serve the public interest – not corporate handouts
By Kate Aronoff in the Guardian.
The Hidden Battle Threatening the Future of America’s Wild Places
A long-standing effort to weaken federal authority over public land could undermine protections for countless threatened and endangered plant and animal species.
By Adam Federman in Pacific Standard.
Every Black Woman Deserves a Doula
On the December day I found out I was carrying a baby, the only thing I could think about was my own mortality.
By Collier Meyerson in New York Magazine.
How Greta Thunberg’s Lone Strike Against Climate Change Became a Global Movement
The 16-year-old Swedish activist’s #FridaysForFuture protests have galvanized young people around the world.
By Kate Aronoff in Rolling Stone.
A Desperate Bargain
Throughout the country parents of children with severe mental illness feel pressured to give up custody to obtain treatment.
By Juliana Schatz Preston for Reveal.
Trump’s a racist conman – and that’s the brand America bought
Michael Cohen’s testimony may be horrifying but it is not shocking. The president’s supporters know exactly what he is.
By Gary Younge in the Guardian.
Don’t trust the adults in the room on climate change
Older politicians are too quick to write off younger climate activists. But where are their solutions to the climate crisis?
By Kate Aronoff in the Guardian.
A Tale of Two Toxic Cities
The EPA’s Bungled Response to an Air Pollution Crisis Exposes a Toxic Racial Divide.
By Sharon Lerner in the Intercept.
It’s Bernie’s world. The Democratic party is just living in it
Bernie Sanders’s 2016 candidacy rewrote the rules by which the Democratic party operates. If Democrats win in 2020, it will be largely thanks to him.
By Kate Aronoff in the Guardian.
The Missing Black Millennial
No generation has undergone such meticulous examination in recent years as the millennials. Yet our understanding of them contains a glaring gap.
By Reniqua Allen in the New Republic.
She’s With Stupid
Sure, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slips up sometimes–but have you listened to her Republican colleagues?
By Katha Pollitt in The Nation.
History Shows That a Planned Wall Along Texas Border Could Cause Flooding, Ecological Disaster
While residents and officials are concerned about ignoring the lessons from Nogales, the federal government is forging ahead with its plans to start construction in September of this year.
Melissa del Bosque on WNYC’s The Takeaway.
Eric Holder Sure Sounds Like He’s Running for President
In a speech in Iowa, the former attorney general called voting rights the “defining civil rights issue of our time.”
By Ari Berman in Mother Jones.
The Battle Lines Have Been Drawn on the Green New Deal
Losing another four years to a Republican or a corporate Democrat, and starting in 2026 is, quite simply, a joke.
By Naomi Klein in the Intercept.
Sentenced To Life At 16 In Slaying Of Man Who She Said Pulled A Gun on Her
In 1996, Michele Benjamin was sentenced to life without parole for killing a man who she said solicited her for sex and menaced her with a weapon in New Orleans.
By Josie Duffy Rice in the Appeal.
Day Care for All
The progressive to-do list is missing a very important idea.
By Katha Pollitt in the New York Times.
Inside the Secretive US Air Campaign In Somalia
Since Trump took office, figuring out whom the US is killing and why has become nearly impossible. By Amanda Sperber in The Nation.
Judicial Elections
Mass incarceration doesn’t just happen. One under-examined factor is the relationship between judges and corporate money/big business interests.
Fellow Josie Duffy Rice co-hosts a discussion on Justice in America.
Real Black History
Real Black History (Abridged).
Mychal Denzel Smith on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.
Liam Neeson’s interview shows that for some, black people are still not fully human
When an actor admits to looking for a black man to murder, racism is not some historical problem.
By Gary Younge in the Guardian.
It’s Time to Try Fossil-Fuel Executives for Crimes Against Humanity
It isn’t hyperbole to say that fossil-fuel executives are mass murderers. We should put them on trial for crimes against humanity.
By Fellow Kate Aronoff in Jacobin.
Conviction
A 7-part podcast series tells how the pursuit of justice drives two men to fight each other in the courts and on the streets of New York.
By Saki Knafo in Gimlet.
Entire Industries Are Being Blacklisted by Insurers Over #MeToo Liability
Companies with high-profile executives, big-name stars, or iffy corporate cultures are getting increased scrutiny.
By Susan Antilla in the Intercept.
Following Exposé of Labor Violations, Centerplate Agrees to $5.45m Settlement
The lawsuit alleges that Centerplate broke a long list of state labor laws. By Gabriel Thompson for Type Investigations.
Chemours is Using the U.S. as an Unregulated Dump for Europe’s Toxic GenX Waste
After many years of treating the developing world as its environmental dumping ground, the U.S. is finally getting a taste of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of another country’s dangerous garbage. By Sharon Lerner in the Intercept.
How Afghans Have Adapted to Life After Losing a Limb
“What is most difficult for us to imagine is not tragedy but the prospect of living in its aftermath.” By Matthieu Aikins in the New York Times Magazine, with photographs by Ross McDonnell.
Broken Justice in the 42
In the poorest congressional district in the country, where thousands of people are arrested each year, one former cop with a complicated past has made high-profile prosecutions fall apart.
By Saki Knafo in The New York Times Magazine.
Are St. Louis police following their own rules to protect citizens’ privacy?
The first piece from Type Investigations’ Ida B. Wells Fellowship, class of 2018.
By Rebecca Rivas in
Expecting Care
How Texas is failing foster kids and contributing to an alarming teen pregnancy rate.
By Rebecca Grant in Texas Observer.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Doesn’t Have Time to ‘Learn the Job.’ Neither Did Shirley Chisholm.
Ocasio-Cortez, like Chisholm before her, is driven by an urgency not typically found in American politicians.
By Mychal Denzel Smith in Esquire.
Seth Freed Wessler and Type Investigations win 2019 John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award
Congratulations to Seth Freed Wessler and Type Investigations, who won for “The Coast Guard’s ‘Floating Guantánamos.’”
Introducing Type Investigations
Great video capturing what Type Investigations is all about.
What Does Socialism Have to Do with Sex?
The New Yorker discovers Kristen R. Ghodsee‘s “smart, accessible book” Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism.
Shout Out to Criminal Justice Reformers
As the Justice in America Podcast returns for a second season, our fellow Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith III talk to Colorlines about the activists and organizations fighting to remake the nation’s criminal justice system.
By Josie Duffy Rice in Colorlines.
‘This Model of Education Is Not Sustainable’
Yes, raises are important, but LA’s teachers are striking so their students have a fair shot at an education.
By Sarah Jaffe in The Nation.
The Law That Just Passed In New York Is A Huge Win For Voting Rights
The state had some of the worst voting laws in the country. It’s about to have some of the best.
By Ari Berman in Mother Jones.
The American Dream Isn’t for Black Millennials
What I learned from talking to more than 70 of my peers — and trying to buy a house.
By Reniqua Allen in the New York Times
“I’m Doing Great”: A Black Millennial On His $100,000 Student Debt
Michael is trying to free himself from nearly $100,000 in student debt the only way he knows how: getting another degree.
By Reniqua Allen in BuzzFeed
After Words on C-SPAN
Is the “American Dream” is still attainable?
Reniqua Allen on Book TV’s After Words.
Could socialist policies give American women better lives?
PBS NewsHour invited Kristen Ghodsee, author of “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism,” to discuss socialist concepts would make women’s lives more autonomous, manageable and fulfilling.
Juan Cole’s Muhammad is a New York Times Review editor’s choice
“Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires is not just eruditely informative, but also ambitiously revisionist.”
Stepping Up
As the incarceration of mothers increases in the United States, who cares for the children left behind?
By Sylvia A. Harvey, in Virginia Quarterly Review
Our 2018 Gala
We were humbled to honor co-founders of March For Our Lives with the 2018 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship. Thanks to Wyatt Cenac for a moving tribute to the courageous work of Delaney Tarr, Jaclyn Corin, and Avalon Fenster, and so many others.
The Costs of the Confederacy
Taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology — in the last decade alone.
By Brian Palmer and Seth Freed Wessler in Smithsonian Magazine
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