Among the many grim features of U.S. life in 2022, gun violence might be especially depressing because it is a crisis that seems so solvable and yet hopeless at the same time. We are trapped in a national gun debate between a rabidly political right wing and a stubbornly apolitical…

David Correia’s new book brings to life the Red Power movement of the early 1970s and the Navajo struggle for self-determination against a society that ruthlessly exploited them. In today’s struggles against oil pipelines and other environmental catastrophes, Native people are at the forefront of humanity’s existential fight against climate…

The Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine has provoked strong reactions across the world, from empathetic solidarity with the Ukrainian people to crass anti-Russian bigotry. Looking to ride the wave of both sentiments is a domestic foreign policy establishment that is eager to restore the U.S.’s …

Shepherd Books asked me to recommend 5 books about socialism today. With apologies to many amazing authors I could have listed, here they are. Who am I? I’ve been a socialist for my entire adult life and a wise-ass for even longer. As a writer I’ve found a way to combine these two…

In the nearly two years of this pandemic, we have endured not only illness, loss and social isolation, but also the mentally exhausting calculations of how to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe under constantly changing variants, infection rates and vaccine protections. From early on, we had to learn…

COVID has universalized the long struggle of disabled people for humane workplace and school accommodations. — The COVID pandemic has been a traumatic and revelatory historic experience for everyone, but especially so for disabled communities. …

As we head into the winter holidays nervously checking news about the Omicron variant and rising COVID-19 case numbers, let’s take a moment to think of how a more just society might handle the coming weeks. Schools and many workplaces would offer remote options for the final week before Christmas…

For months, a small coalition of parents and educators has sounded the alarm about New York City’s reopening plan. — Students have had a range of experiences with remote learning over the past 18 months, with some students thriving at home, others completely disappearing from the school system, and most falling at various points in between. …

“Zoom showed society a different way of relating and working. . . . Are those people going to come back from the Hamptons, from Aspen, from Florida? . . . If you were to see a 15 percent decline of people coming back to New York City, that would have…