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The Pandemic Is Killing Research—So Where Is University Support?

“I’m a Covid researcher whose university is abandoning me and my colleagues. And I’m one of the lucky ones.”

Ian Schlegel

War on Terror

Trump’s Secret Police Have Never Been a Secret to Brown People

The Department of Homeland Security, now menacing Portland, has been terrorizing Muslims, immigrants, and other vulnerable populations since its inception.

Elie Mystal
Foreign Policy

Will the Left Get a Say in the Biden Doctrine?

Covid-19 creates an opportunity to shift foreign policy away from the military.

David Klion
Sports

WNBA Players—Again—Show the Meaning of Radical Dissent

While the sports world rushes to cash in on “woke capitalism,” Layshia Clarendon and others in the WNBA are reminding us of the meaning of rebellion.

Dave Zirin
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Politics

Why Portland Became the Test Case for Trump’s Secret Police

Right-wing groups and media laid the groundwork for federal intervention long before this summer’s protests.

Zoë Carpenter

Why Are Mayors Inviting Trump’s Federal Agents Into Their Cities?

The Trump administration’s “anti-crime,” anti-cities agenda goes beyond sending DHS agents to Portland, and some mayors are fine with that.

Alex S. Vitale

How to Move Biden Left

Biden’s climate policy is an invitation to movements to keep pushing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

John Nichols

World

In Quarantine, on the Plains of Colombia

A photographer captures a child’s fears and hopes on a ranch on the Llanos.

Juanita Escobar, The Nation and Magnum Foundation

Covid-19 Has Put Algeria’s Peaceful Revolution on Hold

The past year’s protests have been on a scale not seen in over three decades. But now, the streets are empty.

Abdo Shanan, The Nation and Magnum Foundation

Canada’s Nazi Monuments

Why does Canada have not one but several memorials to Nazi collaborators? And why, when statues are toppling all over the world, have Canadian Jewish groups remained silent?

Lev Golinkin

Culture

Bernadette Mayer’s ‘Emotional Science Project’

Flitting between the intimate and the impersonal, the poet’s photographic project Memory is a hallmark of American conceptualism.

Tausif Noor

A Century of Struggle in Palestine

Rashid Khalidi’s new history offers a political and personal portrait of more than a hundred years of colonization and resistance in Palestine.

Kaleem Hawa

How an Artist’s Diary Can Teach Us New Ways of Seeing

Rosemary Mayer’s journal from 1971 illuminates not just her work but also how a creative person makes sense of a life.

Thea Ballard

Watch and Listen

Listen: To Fight the Coronavirus, We Need a Massive Campaign of Disruption

Gregg Gonsalves on Covid-19, plus Meagan Day on the eviction crisis.

July 16, 2020

Listen: The NBA at the Breaking Point

NBA scribe Michael Lee joins the show to talk about the NBA restart and Stephen Jackson’s comments.

July 14, 2020

View: Making George Floyd’s Life Matter

As the people of Minneapolis grieve the loss of one of their own, they’re also fighting for a future free of police brutality.

June 8, 2020

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