Lydia Polgreen
Posts
Whatever Happened to ‘Free’ News?
We are entering an era of media haves and have-nots.
Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Are About Humiliation
Restrooms have long been porcelain crucibles for our fears and anxieties, which is why the right knows they are good sites for humiliating trans people.
Does America Realize That Sudan Is Too Big Too Fail?
The people of Sudan have been all but abandoned in the crossfire of a fight to the death between the two men who want to...
Sorry, Republicans, Your Trans Panic Won’t Help You Win
It has become blindingly obvious what happens when the G.O.P. legislates what Americans do with their sex organs. And voters, understandably, don’t like what they...
We’re Living in a World Where the Sanctuaries Are Actually Prisons
The rich world has developed a shockingly high tolerance for cruelty in order to keep out desperate people.
Will This Earthquake Be Erdogan’s Undoing?
The Turkish government’s disastrous response to the recent earthquakes has exposed the false promise of strongman rule.
I Went to Syria to See Biblical Devastation in a Land of Political Tragedy
We live in a world remade by Syria’s war. And yet we have abandoned the Syrian people.
India, the World’s Biggest Democracy, Is Jettisoning Freedom and Tolerance
The soul of a majestic nation is at stake.
Nurses Are Burned Out and Fed Up. For Good Reason.
A recent strike in New York is just the latest sign of a growing crisis in American health care.
How Will History Remember Jan. 6?
History is not just what happened. It is the meaning we make out of what happened and the story we tell with that meaning.
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