Sara Nelson on the Drive to Unionize Delta Flight Attendants
Before the pandemic, Sara Nelson had emerged as one of the most visible leaders in the labor movement. The Association of Flight Attendants represents some fifty thousand workers and nearly twenty air...
6 Kesä 202213min
Why a Weakened N.R.A. Still Gets What it Wants
The National Rifle Association has been one of the most feared groups in Washington, D.C., for decades. It profoundly reshaped the conversation around guns in America through a combination of financia...
2 Kesä 202224min
What Makes a Mass Shooter?
In America, unthinkable violence has become routine. In the wake of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings, David Remnick speaks with the researchers Jillian Peterson and James Densley, whose book “Th...
31 Touko 202219min
Normalcy Returns to Kyiv as Russia Doubles Down in Eastern Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on into its third brutal month, with no end in sight. But, in ways large and small, the conflict has shifted. At the start of the war, the Russian military hoped to...
26 Touko 202228min
The Attack on Gender-Affirming Medical Care
Across the United States, conservative politicians are leading a backlash against L.G.B.T.Q. identity, framing legal restrictions as protection of children. Several states have introduced laws to ban ...
23 Touko 202227min
The Other Kind of Racism in Buffalo
Last weekend, an eighteen-year-old white man killed ten people and injured three in a Tops grocery store located in Buffalo’s majority-Black East End. It was a deliberately planned attack, motivated b...
19 Touko 202235min
The Battle After Roe v. Wade
Assuming that Justice Samuel Alito’s final opinion in the Mississippi abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization gets majority support, there will be profound social, political, and he...
16 Touko 202219min
How COVID Strengthened Authoritarianism in China
China’s “zero COVID” strategy has brought the bustling metropolis of Shanghai to a standstill, with many of its twenty-five million residents sealed in their homes. These exceptionally strict measures...
12 Touko 202228min
