Molly Crabapple Ten Years After Occupy “Since then, taking part in protests has felt like the rent I pay for living in this world.” September 18, 2021
Molly Crabapple Occupy Memory A decade ago, a grassroots anticapitalist movement burst on the scene, galvanizing people with its slogan “We are the 99 percent.” It changed me, and many others, but how much did it change the world? September 16, 2021
Claudia Dreifus ‘I Walk Through My Fear’ The artist became known for her images of a circle that would be decimated by AIDS. Today, she’s using ACT UP-style activism to highlight the Sacklers’ part in the opioid crisis—and stop museums taking their money. September 13, 2021
Timothy Snyder The World of Tadeusz Borowski’s Auschwitz The Polish writer survived the camps yet died before he was thirty. The stories he left behind provide perhaps the most unflinching literary account we have of the Holocaust. September 12, 2021
Edwidge Danticat Remembering Michael Richards The young artist was among those killed in the September 11, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers, where he had a studio. Now, twenty years on, his work is enjoying its first major retrospective. September 11, 2021
Dan Chiasson Giants of the Northeast Kingdom “Bread and Puppet was part of a Vermont I didn’t know as a kid, or only saw out of the corner of my eye.” September 11, 2021
Kenneth Roth Litigating the War on Terror: An Exchange The head of Human Rights Watch rejects criticism that efforts to mitigate America’s worst excesses after September 11, 2001 helped sanitize US belligerence. September 8, 2021
Jon Allsop Marine Le Pen’s ‘Perfect Soldier’ To focus on her 2022 presidential campaign, the National Rally candidate is handing over party leadership to her youthful protégé. Is this the ticket that will bring the far right to power in France? September 4, 2021
Mike Jay In the Drug Archives “Our current fascination with psychedelics and mental exploration has a longer history than we recognize.” September 3, 2021
Samuel Moyn Michael Ratner’s Tragedy, and Ours The career of the veteran constitutional rights litigator offers a case history of how US humanitarians ended up sanitizing the war on terror instead of opposing it. September 1, 2021
