Novel Evil
Less than a century after it began, the popular lexicon of the Holocaust has become threadbare. It is so reduced to a few suggestive and uncontroversial narrative linchpins, trite and…
Two Months
If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long…
PACBI Now
This image is the current logo for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. When, in 1963, Samuel Beckett endorsed “Playwrights Against Apartheid,” a statement instructing…
Inflation Grips American Households: A Closer Look at the Financial Strain
The rising tide of inflation continues to tighten its grip on American households, casting a long shadow over the financial stability of families across the nation. As prices soar, many…
Georgia’s controversial 2021 voting law overhaul survives preliminary legal challenge
A Georgia federal court judge declined this week to temporarily block the state’s controversial election rules, which several voting rights and civil rights organizations claim will disenfranchise Black voters throughout…
Here’s who gets money from Defend Texas Liberty, the PAC whose leader met with white supremacist Nick Fuentes
“Here’s who gets money from Defend Texas Liberty, the PAC whose leader met with white supremacist Nick Fuentes” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization…
Columbia University Deals With Revelations About Its Decadeslong Failure to Stop a Predator
Columbia University has been rocked by revelations about the university’s handling of the case of Robert Hadden, a former obstetrician-gynecologist who sexually abused patients for decades while working at the…
DeSantis declares state of emergency in Florida because of Israel-Hamas war
Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency in Florida — some 6,500 miles from the Israeli-Hamas war that’s broken out in the Middle East — to cope with…
Police Resistance and Politics Undercut the Authority of Prosecutors Trying to Reform the Justice System
After the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the months of protests that followed, the city of St. Louis was forced to reckon with its…
We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority
Series: Friends of the Court: SCOTUS Justices’ Beneficial Relationships With Billionaire Donors Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong friendship with real estate tycoon Harlan Crow and Samuel Alito’s luxury travel…