Magazine
Henry Craver
On the Line: The Other Border Camps
Makeshift camps are popping up along Mexico’s side of the U.S.-Mexico border, from Matamoros all the way to Tijuana, home to thousands, mostly Mexican people who plan on requesting asylum. Read more
Smoking Gun: Rightwing Terrorism? What Rightwing Terrorism?
President Donald Trump has said that he does not view rightwing extremism as a rising threat. Read more
Smart Ass Cripple: Using the Disabled as Talking Points
Maybe I have a certain talent not so much for making political predictions but for smelling rightwing hypocrisy. It really isn’t hard to do. The stench is often overwhelming. Read more
Susan Walsh AP
Comment: Let's Overthrow the Government
It is time to insist on this President’s immediate and unceremonial removal from office by all nonviolent means necessary. Read more
Lukas Keapproth
Editor’s Note: Working Miracles
One of my favorite Grateful Dead songs, belted out with characteristic conviction by Bob Weir, is “I Need a Miracle.” I think of it often when I go to work. Read more
Jason Raish
The New Green Scare
Lawmakers are ramping up penalties for protesters who take the kind of drastic action needed to save the planet. Read more
Beyond the Slaughterhouse
A look at a new industry working to produce real meat without killing animals. Read more
Boston, Ginn and Company
What 1619 Means to Me
What we need in America is a steady gaze in the mirror, accepting that any talk about our history is the story of people brought here as slaves. Read more
Byron Smith
On the Line: Poison, Pills
Could there be a drug to “spiritually awaken” those who suffer? Read more
What’s Wrong with the Media
Matt Taibbi’s latest book is a no-holds-barred takedown of what the media have become in the era of Donald Trump. Read more
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Edge of Sports: Getting a Kick Out of Anti-Fascism
We are living in a moment when some of the grandest public displays against street-thug fascism are taking place at Major League Soccer games. Sincerely. Read more
First-Person Singular: The Circus of the Damned
I’m waiting for the day when every call from Jimmy doesn’t begin with “This is a call from a Louisiana correctional facility . . . .” Read more
Pete Ryan
No Health Care for You!
Prodded by Team Trump, states are requiring people to work for their Medicaid. Read more
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How Dollar Stores Prey on the Poor
“Their whole strategy is to go to a neighborhood that has a lot of poor people who don’t have access to transportation and can only walk to and from the dollar store.” Read more
Trumpism Comes to Latin America
How the U.S. President has buoyed far-right governments throughout the hemisphere. Read more
Ryan Bracey
By the Thumbings of a Prick
So oft have I invok’d for all my muse, To spread my knowledge of the dealer’s art; My Sharpie, dried by rampant overuse, Rewetted by the pourings of my heart. Read more
Maeve in America: Standing on My Own Good Luck
Consider the story of Annie Moore, a seventeen-year-old girl who left my hometown of Cobh, County Cork, back in 1891. Read more
