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Michael Ratner was one of the most accomplished radical lawyers of his generation, representing clients from Attica to Guantanamo.…
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’s ‘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.
Family vows to file a wrongful death lawsuit, demonstrators demand infamous jail be closed.
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