| Jun 16, 2021 | RoundupThis month marks the 50th anniversary of the war on drugs, an institution so ingrained that many of us grew up without ever realizing it was a policy choice. But even after five decades of gargantuan investments in policing, penalties, and prisons, fatal drug...
| Jun 9, 2021 | RoundupIn northern Minnesota this week, tensions are coming to a head over the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline — the latest pipeline project, like the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines before it, to unite indigenous people’s movements with environmentalists in...
| Jun 2, 2021 | RoundupWhile partisan deadlock over infrastructure spending grips Congress, big ideas are moving ahead elsewhere. As Sarah Anderson reports this week, there’s a potentially historic new resolution in Congress now that lays out a real plan to end poverty — and its...
| May 26, 2021 | RoundupMore than half of all Americans have gotten at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. Nearly 40 percent are full vaccinated. But there’s another big group — about 30 million of us — who say they want to get the vaccine but haven’t been able to. This...
| May 19, 2021 | RoundupAs the latest Israeli assault on Gaza continues, we offer two perspectives from writers who’ve visited the region. Jill Richardson, whose upbringing was Jewish, visited Israel with her family as a teenager. Tracey L. Rogers, a racial justice advocate in the...
| May 12, 2021 | RoundupNew data suggests slow hiring is holding up the economic recovery. Some Republicans are blaming unemployment benefits. But maybe, Rebekah Entralgo argues this week, the real problem is low wages. Who wants to risk COVID-19 working for a poverty wage, she wonders?...
