We need to rethink PTSD
Growing up, we laughed about the neighbor kid’s dad waking up in the middle of the night thinking he was in Vietnam, but while it was a little scary, it never really went beyond the level of a...
Category: North America
There is no guaranteed security, especially not from governors
News just broke that the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s attempt to block the resettlement of Syrian refugees in his state, saying the effort “was based on ‘no...
What you need to know about Mike Pence
Tonight's vice presidential debate will pit Tim Kaine and Mike Pence against each other for their only formal public debate of the election cycle. It's easy for many people to forget the vice...
Clinton versus Trump: Who won the first debate?
Last night marked the first of three presidential debates in the United States, allowing voters to see Secretary Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump go head to head in a series of discussions about...
Must reads: Presidential debate edition
Tonight, it's the debate of the century: Secretary Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump go up live against each other at 9pm Eastern (find out how to watch here), moderated by Lester Holt of NBC. It may...
Ask not whether Clinton is sick: Ask why it matters
In a year where the election is not particularly close, the media has leapt at any chance to make Secretary Clinton’s victory seem less assured and amplify the perception of a horserace. This...
Colin Kaepernick, Civil Disobedience, and American Colorblindness
The erasure of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s radical legacy is a transgression of historic proportions. Just a few months before King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, he wrote the...
What we’re missing in the EpiPen debate
The EpiPen is one of the most brilliant lifesaving medical developments of recent years: Few other medications and devices can have such an instantaneously dramatic effect. Americans with severe...
On moral accountability and perfect victimhood
I just watched the Vice documentary about Anthony Sowell, the black serial killer in Cleveland who raped and strangled eleven women between 2007 and 2009, and raped a few others who managed to get...
Sarah Jaffe’s Necessary Trouble is a Fascinating, Readable Chronicle of the Post-2008 Activist Landscape
Labor journalist Sarah Jaffe has covered a myriad of topics in her work, ranging from “trickle-down feminism” to tenants’ rights to popular culture—and her first book, Necessary Trouble,...