‘Indecency has become a new hallmark.’ In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy.
DuPont Has DDT to Sell, So Watch Out! (1945), Women Want the Vote, Men Say No Way (1915), Icelandic Women Go on Strike Against Gender Discrimination (1975), Big Tobacco Kills, and Keeps on Killing (1940), Happy Birthday, Mike Doonesbury! (1970)
Today, it is an understatement to say that mainstream U.S. society is sick with what Lenny called “false values.” Tip-of-the-iceberg evidence of how a sick U.S. society has gotten sicker? In 2024, an in-your-face scumbag bully was elected president.
If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.
Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes.
What we can learn from the life of Uruguay’s former guerrilla and leftist president Pepe Mujica.
Richard Beck’s Homeland charts how four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.
Trump's brand of thoroughly vulgar and outlandish demagogy, his politics of racism, cruelty, vindictiveness, and gleeful resentment is not new, it has deep roots and is deeply, fundamentally American.
The ruling, when it comes, will be disastrous for Black voters and for Democrats.
Doing the Time Warp again
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