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Landmines have killed at least 5,000 people, many of them children, during the war in Afghanistan. They’ll be there long after we leave.
Stephanie Savell
Let us count the ways.
Bill McKibben
Stan Greenberg on the election, D.D. Guttenplan on Edward Snowden, and Sasha Abramsky on Trump.
Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
The United States will be a nonentity at this fall’s UN climate summit. But the 2020 election is a chance to change the game.
Zoë Carpenter
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Nobody owns the working class—or the warrant of “History.”
Democrats are right to be outraged—but their ideas aren’t much better.
Jake Bittle
An excerpt from the whistleblower’s new memoir.
Edward Snowden
A new project called Flowers on the Inside allows people to send postcards featuring art from undocumented immigrants to detained migrants.
Tina Vasquez
Climate Change
The Second Fleet was reactivated to patrol the Arctic. Only problem is, the fleet’s home is on the front lines of sea-level rise: Naval Station Norfolk.
Dave Lindorff
And Bernie Sanders has a plan for that.
Tom Athanasiou
The United States will be a nonentity at this fall’s UN climate summit. But the 2020 election is a chance to change the game.
Zoë Carpenter
Migrant Voices
A young woman, brought to the US as a baby and abandoned and abused by her parents, struggles to gain status and stay in her beloved Bronx.
John Washington
A Nepali TPS holder and domestic worker describes what it’s like to live in the US without papers and to fight for workers’ rights.
John Washington
Americans don’t want these jobs, or can’t do them—so nearly a quarter of a million guest workers do them instead.
John Washington
The police and Airbnb threaten to transform Athens’s radical enclave into a “tourist-friendly caricature.”
Ella Fassler
While Netanyahu’s talk of annexing parts of the West Bank caused a flurry, the reality is that few parties would oppose it.
Diana Buttu
Landmines have killed at least 5,000 people, many of them children, during the war in Afghanistan. They’ll be there long after we leave.
Stephanie Savell
A recent show in Berlin grapples with the legacy of a prominent German modernist who was a supporter of Nazism but whose art was derided by Nazis.
Barry Schwabsky
Lucy Ellmann’s novel Ducks, Newburyport provides a comprehensive diagnosis of one citizen’s very modern alienation.
Dustin Illingworth
Her second book, Normal People , mines the travails of Irish youth to tell a decidedly contemporary love story.
Hannah Gold
What We're Listening To
Her latest album, Lover , has been heralded as a return to form. It also presents an opportunity to understand the pop star’s many contradictions.
Olivia Horn
Distilling heartbreak into hits, her debut album shows the YouTube sensation is a true star.
Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Over a decade since its debut, the band that soundtracked the Great Recession returns with one of its most ambitious albums.
Bijan Stephen
Watch and Listen
Ruth Anna Buffalo is changing politics in North Dakota.
September 17, 2019
Successive US administrations have sought to turn the borderlands into a land of death—but these photos prove it is very much a land of the living.
September 12, 2019
Documentary filmmaker Nancy Schwarzman and writer Charles Modiano join the show to talk Steubenville and Antonio Brown.
September 17, 2019
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