The Supreme Court is Not Supposed to Have This Much Power
By Nikolas Bowie & Daphna Renan The Atlantic It’s June again—that time of year when Americans wake up each morning and wait for the Supreme Court to resolve our deepest political […]
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How the NRA Evolved from Backing a 1934 Ban on Machine Guns to Blocking Nearly all Firearm Restrictions Today
By Robert Spitzer The Conversation The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns […]
The Landfill of the Future
By Andreas McGuire Hakai Magazine The molecular disassembly line works like this: polluted air and water move through a series of tanks, slowly being purified along the way. Between the […]
How the AI Industry Profits From Catastrophe
By Karen Hao archive & Andrea Paola Hernández MIT Technology Review It was meant to be a temporary side job—a way to earn some extra money. Oskarina Fuentes Anaya signed […]
The Last Summer of Roe v. Wade
By Carter Sherman Vice Texas abortion providers sued to halt the law, but the Supreme Court didn’t stop the law from taking effect early Wednesday morning. Overnight, access to abortion […]
A Crusade to Challenge the 2020 Election, Blessed by Church Leaders
By Charles Homans The New York Times Evangelical churches have long been powerful vehicles for grassroots activism and influence on the American right, mobilized around issues such as abortion and […]
How Russia and Right-Wing Americans Converged on War in Ukraine
By Sheera Frenkel & Stuart A. Thompson The New York Times After President Vladimir Putin of Russia claimed that action against Ukraine was taken in self-defense, Fox News host Tucker […]
A New Germany: How Putin’s Aggression is Changing Berlin
By Sudha David-Wilp & Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff Foreign Affairs Within a week, Germany has undergone a dramatic transformation, shedding its reluctant and dovish foreign policy and committing itself to drastically increase […]
Inside Mississippi’s Only Class on Critical Race Theory
By Molly Minta Mississippi Today Brittany Murphree was born and raised in Rankin County, Mississippi, one of the most Republican counties in one of the most Republican states. She went […]
Transparency Laws Let Criminal Records Become Commodities
By Sarah Lageson Wired In April 2018, Adnan (a pseudonym) was wrongfully arrested in Newark, New Jersey, on the basis of an incorrect arrest warrant. A brief period in jail led […]
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