‘I Am Not a Role Model’ and the Resurgence of Athlete Activism By Matt Giles Commentary More athletes are publicly taking a political stance, echoing activists who came before them.
The Face of Mass Deportation By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight At Guernica, journalist J. Malcolm Garcia profiles forty-eight-year-old Sixto Paz, a roofer with a family and no criminal record who moved into a church to avoid deportation.
‘Wir Schaffen Das’: Angela Merkel, the Refugee Crisis, and the Complexity Behind a Simple Statement Like ‘We Will Do It’ By Michelle Weber Highlight In Lapham’s Quarterly, Renata Adler returns to her familial homeland to explore Germany’s present-day reaction to the millions of people now trying to get in rather than out.
16 Documentaries by Steve Bannon By Pam Mandel Highlight “Cracking the code of the man who packs [Trump’s] ideological lunch.”
The Ban, the Wall: Bearing Witness By Dana Snitzky Feature Which of our neighbors have been rounded up so far?
‘I felt dirty, a lesser person somehow than when I had left a week before.’ By Michelle Weber Commentary Rafia Zakaria’s essay in The Baffler on flying while Muslim is an important read that exposes a long list of things that most white, non-Muslim Americans never have to worry about while traveling.
Weighing the Impact of Nationalized Medicine By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In Texas Monthly, Michael Hall surveys the Texans whose health has dramatically improved after receiving medical coverage through the Affordable Care Act, and the group who labored to get them enrolled.
You’re Fired! The Unemployable Trump Administration By Dana Snitzky Commentary The firing of FBI Director James Comey is the latest high-profile firing by the administration. It’s also one of the most troubling.
Why Are the Details of One Russian Diplomat’s Death So Hazy? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight At BuzzFeed, Ali Watkins investigates the way the Russian consulate called Sergei Krivov’s death a heart attack when he seems to have died of blunt force trauma on the floor of New York City’s Russian Consulate building.
John Oliver on the Media’s Struggle to Confront Disinformation By Mark Armstrong Highlight “It’s very dangerous to keep the old campaign architecture around with this presidency.”
The Changing Formation of the Modern American Family By Matt Giles Commentary The dynamics of what constitutes the American family is rapidly changing.
Don’t Call My Daughter Princess. Call Her Madam President. By Sarah Stankorb Feature Having taken feminist progress for granted, Sarah Stankorb must now reconcile her slow support of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential race with assuring her 4-year-old daughter she can be president someday.
Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports By Andrea Pitzer Feature The president’s executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.
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