Issue 264
The Indypendent
Issue 264
Jun 9, 2021
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Black Lives Matter Inspires the Whitney
What a way to go. For his 2003 video “Self-Portrait Piñata,” artist Dave McKenzie cast his image as a…
Put a Woman in Charge: New President Changes Tanzania’s Covid Approach
After Tanzania’s Covid-denialist president drops dead, “Mama Samia” takes the helm and turns to science to guide pandemic response.
How the Jewish State’s founding ideology shapes it to this day.
Andrew Yang and Eric Adams have topped the polls for most of the mayor’s race. It’s a depressing spectacle…
Millennial leftists have moved on like Scott Stringer never existed. However, the unions that backed him have remained in his corner.
Dianne Morales’ ‘Beautiful Mess’
The former non-profit CEO’s mayoral campaign excited the left with its promise to defund the police before imploding in late May amid staff allegations of a toxic workplace and union-busting.
Police and Prisons, What Are They Good For?
Last summer’s protests put police and prison abolition on the progressive agenda. Yet it remains difficult to imagine a…
Social Justice Bait-and-Switch
City invokes George Floyd’s name in order to justify developer giveaway in SoHo rezoning battle.
Ranked Choice Voting Explained
New York City faces a historic primary on June 22: For the first time in almost a century, we’ll…
How Critical Race Theory Became The New Conservative Bogeyman
Critical race theory is not primarily about history. It is about the effects of history on institutions, policies, laws, and, most importantly, ideas. And that makes the rightwing deeply uneasy.
Black moms suffer disproportionately when giving birth. New York could begin to address that by empowering more Black midwives.
Protester Alleges NYPD Stripped Her in Public
“He pulled my pants down to my ankles and then made me walk across the Brooklyn Bridge naked,” she says.