House sends bill to governor renewing taxes critical to funding Missouri Medicaid
The Missouri House chamber during debate on March 12, 2023 (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). A set of medical provider taxes that fund a large portion of Missouri’s Medicaid program won…
CNN sets first Biden-Trump presidential debate for June 27 in Atlanta
CAPTION: Donald Trump, then president, answers a question as Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, listens during the second and final presidential debate at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020…
The number of births continues to fall, despite abortion bans
In the short term, having fewer births means lower state costs for services such as subsidized day care and public schools at a time when aging baby boomers are straining…
FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA
In the early morning of April 30, 2024, we liberated Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. Nearly two weeks earlier, hundreds of people had constructed the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Butler…
The Job of Consent
In sex as elsewhere, consent is asked to do a lot. It is a kind of moral magic, legal theorist Heidi Hurd has suggested, that makes all kinds of unthinkable…
When It Takes Root in the Heart: A Conversation with Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah’s poems are exquisite yet ungovernable, rebelliously innovative yet attuned to a broad range of traditions. They spoke to me long before I had the pleasure of meeting their…
An American Education: Notes from UATX
A revolution in education! A resuscitation of the university mission! To happen in, of all places, not the pompous old northeast or the debauched West Coast, not New York or…
Housewife Demonology
In the series’ penultimate episode, Mad Men’s depressive hausfrau Betty Draper trips in a stairwell on the Fairfield University campus and discovers she’s dying. Lung cancer at thirty-eight: unusual in…
FREE PALESTINE. STOP COP CITY.
In South Dekalb County, Georgia, the South River forest forms a canopy so lush and life-giving that it is referred to as one of the “four lungs of Atlanta.” This…
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…