Opinion
Opinion: I Should Have Listened To My Grandma About American Racist Terrorism
Maybe there’s a big step between “send her back” and the world my grandmother remembered. Or maybe it’s not such a big step at all.
Antjuan Seawright
Opinion: An Impeachment Trial Would Take Away Trump's Control Of The News Cycle
If Donald Trump has to be acquitted, much better for it to come at the hands of a group of people as corrupted and partisan as the Senate Republicans.
Eric Schmeltzer
Opinion: Ilhan Omar's Anti-Semitism Is Becoming A Load-Bearing Myth For American Politics
Just like hippies spitting on Vietnam veterans or welfare queens sipping champagne, Omar’s anti-Semitism has become a structural support beam for American politics.
Chase Madar
Opinion: Working People Need A New Bill Of Rights. As President, I'll Make One.
Presidential candidate Bill de Blasio proposes a new set of guarantees for all American workers, including paid family and medical leave and two weeks of paid vacation.
Bill de Blasio
Opinion: Killing Obamacare Could Turn Back The Clock On Genetic Testing
A revolutionary addition to modern medicine could be collateral damage in the Republican effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
Laura Hercher
Opinion: Cops Finally Found A Decent Use For Sex Trafficking Charges
Police and prosecutors love to use claims of "sex trafficking" to crack down on innocent sex workers. For once, though, they seem to be getting it right.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Opinion: Don’t Regulate Facial Recognition. Ban It.
We are on the verge of a nightmare era of mass surveillance by the state and private companies. It’s not too late to stop it.
Evan Greer
Opinion: Surrogacy Is About Bodily Autonomy. Feminists Should Embrace It.
It’s clear that surrogacy is a women’s rights issue, at the heart of debates over bodily autonomy and choice.
Kelli Auerbach
She Left Canada To Tell Somalia’s Untold Stories. Terrorists Took Her Life
Hodan Nalayeh represented the best of the global Somali diaspora. She was also the model for a new kind of trailblazing international journalist.
Mukhtar M. Ibrahim
Opinion: I Was In Juvenile Hall. Here's Why It Should Be Abolished.
Juvenile hall is a relic of the past: kids, mostly young people of color, put behind bars because government can’t figure out what else to do with us.
Leticia Silot
Opinion: Rivers Of Blood, Black Snow — What Rich Men Did To My Russian Hometown
Heavy industry made my hometown look like a postapocalyptic wasteland, where rivers run red and the snow is black. It also made some men very rich.
Nadya Tolokonnikova
Lesbians Won The Women's World Cup
Opinion: I’m not proud of this country’s curtailment of human rights, but I am proud of Megan Rapinoe and her team for demanding better.
Shannon Keating
Opinion: It's My First July 4 As An American. I Hope More Refugees Are Welcomed Like I Was
Refugees like me know that we can never go home. It gives us a burning desire to establish ourselves here and prove that we belong.
Jay Abdo
Opinion: There's Nowhere Worse To Have Your Period Than A Refugee Camp
It's pitch-dark, and the only private space is a block of communal toilets 500 feet away. The door locks may not be working, and there's no lighting inside. The world can do better.
Maggie Schmitt
Opinion: Pro-War Democrats Are Still In Charge. Let's Clean House.
He voted for the Iraq War and against the Iranian nuclear deal. Why is Eliot Engel leading Democratic foreign policy in Congress?
Rabyaah Althaibani
Opinion: Everyone Is Wrong About Israel Folau
Israel Folau’s belief that gay people go to hell is not niche. But it is harmful — and sacking him does nothing to help.
Lane Sainty
I Am A Refugee, And I Dream Of A World Without Refugees
For decades US foreign policy has not only turned a blind eye to refugees — it has created millions more of us.
Luma Mufleh
Opinion: Florida Is Burning. The Midwest Is Flooding. Why Aren't Democrats Debating Climate?
Miami hit its highest temperature ever recorded in the same week Democrats arrived for the first presidential debate. This isn't rocket science.
Karthik Ganapathy
Opinion: “Chernobyl” Shows How Modern Russia’s Propaganda Machine Is Falling Apart
It’s ironic that a show about narratives, and the way they can turn sour, caused Russia’s own narrative machine to show its fragility.
Georgy Birger
Opinion: Four Years Ago My Friend Was Murdered In His Church By A White Supremacist. It Still Hurts Every Day.
He walked into their Bible study group. They talked with him and prayed with him, and he repaid their kindness by killing them.
Antjuan Seawright
Opinion: I Have A New Challenge As A CEO: Protecting My Staff In Anti-Abortion States
Anti-abortion laws are forcing businesses to consider how we would operate in places where women’s health services are made illegal.
Amy Nelson
Opinion: I'm Covering The Most Important Election In The South This Year. Where Is Everyone Else?
If this week's vote succeeds, it could break open the anti-union South, changing the trajectory of working-class power in the process.
Mike Elk
Opinion: The Child Separation Horror Is Made Worse By How Little We Know
The government is both unable and unwilling to tell us what is really happening. But here's one way we can shine light on our nation's darkest places.
Kaji Dousa
Opinion: New York Still Has Laws That Discriminate Against LGBTQ People. Let's End Them Today.
We were the first big state to pass marriage equality. Now is the time for us to abandon the repugnant laws that remain on the books.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Our Son Was Born. Then We Had To Convince A Judge We Were His Parents.
Most parents take for granted that their baby is legally theirs from the day they’re born. That’s not the case for many LGBTQ families.
Allison Hope
Opinion: I Saw The Horrors Of The Pre-Roe Era. Let's Never Go Back.
I worked in a 40-bed hospital ward dedicated to women whose unsafe abortions went wrong. Deaths were a common occurrence.
Allan Weiland
Opinion: I Was Arrested At The Mexican Border Because The War On Immigrants Is Also Targeting Their Allies
The constitutional rights of US citizens are being stripped away in service of the president’s anti-immigrant fearmongering.
Ana Adlerstein
Opinion: Bernie Is Rich. But He Got Rich From Working, And That Makes All The Difference.
Bernie has gotten rich from the fruits of his labor — something socialists want every working person to experience.
Aaron Freedman
Opinion: We Live In The Safest Big City, But Citizen Is Scaring The Hell Out Of People
Just as crime hits historic lows, people are consuming a freakout-inducing stream of every single 911 call in their neighborhood.
Justin Brannan
Opinion: Companies Say They Value Women. It's Time For Them To Stand Up For Abortion Rights
Corporate leaders have been outspoken on issues like LGBTQIA rights and immigration in the Trump era. But they’ve been disturbingly quiet on abortion.
Amy Everitt
