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American Eldercide

Margaret Morganroth Gullette ▪ January 5, 2021

Long-term care facilities are linked to nearly 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths in the United States. It didn’t have to be this way.

Know Your Enemy: Masks Off

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ January 4, 2021

A look back at what 2020 revealed about the state of American conservatism.

A Reckoning for the Modi Democrats

Arvin Alaigh ▪ December 23, 2020

Liberal Indian American politicians who have received donations from Hindu nationalists are facing new pressure to denounce the Modi government.

Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With the Supreme Court? With the 5-4 Podcast

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ December 21, 2020

The hosts of the podcast 5-4 talk about the rise of the conservative legal movement and the Supreme Court’s assault on American democracy.

Before Operation Dixie

Joe William Trotter Jr. ▪ Fall 2020

The fate of the Southern labor movement helps us understand why the United States took a sharp right turn over the last half-century—and points to a path for transforming the country today.

[EVENT | December 14] Belabored Live: How the Pandemic Changed Our Working Lives

Editors ▪ December 7, 2020

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen, the co-hosts of the Belabored podcast, will gather some of the smartest thinkers about labor and unions to look back on 2020, a tumultuous year for workers.

The Teacher Strike: Conditions for Success

Leo Casey ▪ December 2, 2020

The teacher insurgency of the last decade is a welcome sign of the revival of the strike. But strikes are just one part of a broader strategy to build the power of labor.

Know Your Enemy: Talking Trump, with David Roth

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ November 30, 2020

David Roth, one of the best (and funniest) chroniclers of Donald Trump, takes stock of a grotesque and damaged man as he prepares to leave the White House.

What Obama Wants to Forget

Timothy Shenk ▪ November 24, 2020

A Promised Land is Obama’s attempt to frame the discussion around his presidency. It’s most revealing where it departs from earlier accounts offered by his chief aides and his own previous memoirs.

Acceptance Without Rancor: A Father-Son Conversation About Black Lives Matter

Kevin Mattson and Jay Mattson ▪ Fall 2020

As millions rise up against police violence, a white father and his Black son discuss racism, resistance, and empathy.

Foreign Policy After Trump

Nick Serpe ▪ November 19, 2020

Joe Biden promises to lift U.S. foreign policy up from the low-minded nationalism of the Trump era. But the era of confident American hegemony is drawing to a close.