Trump’s Baby-Cager
Stephen Miller told a high school classmate, “I can’t be your friend any more because you are Latino.”
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Immigration and the Carceral State
June 27, 2018
The Nostalgia Trap podcast, hosted by David Parsons and produced by Peter Sabatino, features weekly conversations about history and politics with some of the left’s most incisive thinkers, writers, and extremely online personalities, exploring how individual lives intersect ...
Brown Existence Anxiety
It never leaves me, this paranoia borne of being brown and female, immigrant and Muslim in the age of Trump. It is with me while I am waiting to have my blood drawn at a clinic and the two plump white grandmothers switch from talking about their grandchildren to how they like ...
Reimagining the Middle Class
June 26, 2018
We need to reimagine what it means to be successful, what it means to be middle class.
They Want New Blood
June 25, 2018
Is the Suraj Patel campaign offering progressive politics as sanitized global design?
Fresh Hell
June 22, 2018
“I’m from Cleveland. I like TGI Fridays.”
Comrades at Arms
The issue is that after college, my friend started working for one the largest U.S. arms manufacturers!
Out of Sight, Out of Our Minds
June 20, 2018
The people in Australia's island detention facilities have been exploited at every turn. They're a model of where we're headed.
The Death of Media
As the planet chokes on electronic waste, a recycler goes to prison.
On the Way to Mexico’s Vote
June 19, 2018
The coming July 1 election has brought out fake TV ads, robocalls, and a leading populist candidate.
Writing Attica’s History
June 19, 2018
The 100th episode of The Nostalgia Trap with Heather Ann Thompson, author of "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy."
Begone, President!
June 18, 2018
The President Is Missing, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson, merely confirms the claim of its title.