Activist and author Robin Marty says the biggest threat facing women in a post-Roe America would be arrest, not death.

By using avatars, Facebook, fake websites, and fake news, new private intelligence firms staffed by Israeli intelligence personnel are waging wars on perception to alter targeted groups’ beliefs and behavior. In their story for The New Yorker, Adam Entous and Ronan Farrow profile one firm called Psy-Group to delve deep into this disturbing frontier, which one Israeli intelligence […]

There’s no doubt that Atlantic City is going under. The only question left is: Can an entire city donate its body to science?

“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude,” wrote George Orwell in 1946, and it still stands.

A little-known city law has educators figuring out how to talk to eighth and tenth grade students about the history of Chicago police abuse.

“His brother, he assumed, was in the island’s detention facility, waiting to be sent to Athens with hundreds of other migrants. Days turned into weeks. Every time Javed tried Masood’s phone, the call went straight to voicemail. After a month passed with no word, it dawned on Javed that his brother was missing.”

When we hear “sexual abuse” we think “women and girls.” But Hollywood’s boy actors are suffering in a different way.

By 2030, Chicago’s Black population will have decreased by half a million people in 50 years.

Italy’s “Salvini Decree,” passed last November, has already altered life for many migrants to the country.

It’s a relatively new term for a concept as old as time.

Instead of building seawalls or raising the land to prepare for rising sea levels, California’s Imperial Beach is considering moving the town a few blocks back from the ocean.

U.S. immigration law has a history of excluding “undesirables” from citizenship through policy. It’s doing it now with LGBTQ families, in spite of marriage equality.

True crime has a reputation for being trashy, but a recent renaissance has it tipping into advocacy.

Are we having a surface-level reckoning?

A New Yorker reads “Seasonal Associate” in the age of HQ2.

The world-changing potential of a Green New Deal

As AAPI’s become a more powerful, Democrat-leaning voting bloc, efforts to keep them from the polls intensify.

Thinking of Qandeel Baloch’s murder as an honor killing doesn’t capture the whole truth. She was silenced for revealing men’s hypocrisy.

The Buzzcocks’ enduring influence might have surprised punk frontman Pete Shelley, but not his fans.

Officer Stephen Mader got fired for deciding not to shoot someone, and if that doesn’t say a lot about the problems with police culture in the U.S., I don’t know what to tell you.

In 2018, we’re inured to stories of a powerful men taking advantage of girls and getting away with it, but Jeffrey Epstein’s story still manages to horrify.

Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?

New York’s court system aids and abets predatory lenders who prey on small business owners.

While science labors to comprehend the variety and volume of insects on earth, both are declining with disturbing speed, and the ecological consequences are troubling.

How do you hold down the fort when the fort is on fire?

How do you retire from a gang?

How the sexual fluidity of the next generation reflects the limitations of the one that came before it.

It seems like America is made up of two broad groups who don’t agree on anything — maybe it’s time for a trial separation.

Policymakers’ neglect of caregiving harms a major force in American labor.

Nicole Antebi interviews historian David Dorado Romo about the fight to preserve the oldest barrio in El Paso from the City itself.