Re-Naming Rikers
Outrage over the penitentiary’s mistreatment of inmates has aligned with a movement to expunge racist names from American…
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The Rush to Re-Write Transgender Politics
Remember last Wednesday? The Department of Justice (DOJ) warned North Carolina its now-infamous law HB2 violates residents’ civil…
The Privatization of Childhood Play
With playdates replacing free childhood play, it’s upper-class families who set the social norms — and working-class families who pay…
Don’t Worry About the Human Gene Pool
Modern medicine may or may not be changing the evolutionary process, but we shouldn’t care. By Michael White…
Land Grab Duplicity
Right-wing land transfer activists are trying to convince the American people that federal public lands belong to the…
The Post-9/11 Ethics of ‘Captain America: Civil War’
Marvel’s Civil War comic series was an allegory for a traumatized moment in American history. Professor Mark D. White explains why its focus on liberty and security still feels so urgent.
Suffocating the Ocean
Oxygen-depleted oceans have preceded many mass extinctions in Earth’s past, including the worst one of all 252 million…
What’s Going to Happen to the Narwhal in the Northwest Passage?
An interview with marine biologist Kristin Westdal. By Eva Holland (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) As I noted in my…
