Politics

The Conservative Con That Gave Us Trumpcare

The American Health Care Act has a long history that returns us to the New Deal and its critics.

Lawrence B. Glickman

Gender & Sexuality

Is Stealthing a Sex Crime?

Prosecuting stealthing may not be the best way to end the practice.

Judith Levine

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

He Said, He Said: The Feminization of James Comey

Conservatives routinely deny that gender is fluid. Yet they have feminized Comey in order to bring him down.

Bonnie Honig

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Politics

How Trump Builds: On the Hollow Promise of #InfrastructureWeek

Trump's infrastructure proposal is more propaganda than plan.

Max B. Sawicky

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Class & Inequality, Education & Opportunity

The Dream Hoarders: How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality

Focusing on the top 1 percent is a mistake. The real class divide is between the upper middle class and the rest of America.

Richard V. Reeves

Science & Nature

Silicon Valley to Liberal Arts Majors: We Want You

Tech billionaires love to declare the death of liberal arts, but could they instead be the future of Silicon Valley?

Tom Slee

Fiction

Submit: The Aura Estrada Short Story Contest

Judged by Viet Thanh Nguyen, the contest is open until October 1. The winner receives publication and a $1,500 prize.

Class & Inequality

All in the Family Debt

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

Melinda Cooper

Science & Nature

The Death and Life of America's Waters

From the Great Lakes to the Flint River, we have devastated our waters through negligence, lethargy, and good intentions.

Meghan O’Gieblyn

Literature & Culture

Radicalism Begins in the Body

Junot Díaz interviews science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany about what it means to be an aging sex radical and why he wrote the essay “Ash Wednesday.”

Junot Díaz, Samuel R. Delany

Class & Inequality

Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder?

‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ raised important questions about inequality that the Ivory Tower would rather ignore. 

Marshall Steinbaum

Forum

The Right to Strike

Unions are being strangled by laws that block workers from organizing, striking, and acting in solidarity. Becoming a rights-based movement is the only way to save labor.

James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, Peter Kellman