'It's Always There': Going Back to Columbine 19 Years Later
“We’ve grown up knowing nothing more than the fact that we may be shot in our school,” 16-year-old Kaylee Tyner said as…
Navigating a Digital World After 40 Years in Prison
Edward Minor had a paper due for his English class on income inequality at Wayne County Community College in Detroit.…
Pregnant, Uninsured, and Adrift
No one told Catherine Emery what labor would feel like. Just past her 24th birthday and about as optimistic as a person…
Housing Is the Key to Unlocking Andrew Cuomo's Political Ego
In March, Governor Andrew Cuomo stood in front of a public housing building for the first time in recent memory and…
Three Days in a Georgia City Where It's Not Segregation, It's 'Just The South'
Rufus Davis, the second black mayor of Camilla, Georgia, lives with his mother in a white ranch-style home nestled a…
The Only Honest Right Wing Pundit Is a Violent One
Personally, I am glad that female staffers who have had abortions at the Atlantic will not have to sit next to a man…
The Labor of Bringing a Baby Into Appalachia
Brittany Walters, tethered by an IV tube and fetal heart monitor, fidgeted in her bed at Grant Memorial Hospital in…
We Asked Every U.S. Senator About Israel Killing 17 Palestinians and Shooting Hundreds More
On Friday, the Israeli military killed 17 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more during a protest for Palestinian…
I Infiltrated the White House Easter Egg Roll and All I Got Was Played
I’ve always thought Easter was a bullshit holiday. Unlike most proper holidays, you don’t get a day off of work or…
The Silent Crisis Killing Puerto Ricans Months After Hurricane Maria
There’s a big, early-season storm blowing itself out in the Gulf of Mexico...There are over 700 known dead so…
America's Best Socialized Healthcare Could Be Privatized Soon
Evan Young, a retired army officer living in Arkansas, has reason to be upset with the Veterans Affairs healthcare…
The Appalling Anti-Abortion Trend No One is Challenging in Court
In 2009 George Delgado, a family physician and founder of a crisis pregnancy center in California, got a call from a…
Not Your Negroni: How a Mississippi Drink Menu Shook Up a City’s Deep Race Tensions
“Never let a white man know how much you really do know about anything except hard work,” John Dabney once said to his…
'Am I Next?' Inside D.C.'s March For Our Lives
Young people of color have been trying to tell us the story of their trauma caused by gun violence for years. We have…
Dismantling America’s Gun Crisis Will Cost More Lives
In 1993, standing in the White House’s east room surrounded by city governors, Bill Clinton brought Melanie Musick to…
The Slow Death of a Southern Feminist Mecca
It’s late afternoon on a Friday in early December, and the neon “open” sign on Wild Iris’s glass storefront glows red…
The Deflating Importance of the Leaked Dick Pic
I’d rather watch my own cremation by way of a Crock-Pot than look at Donald Trump’s presumably squash-colored dick, but…
The ‘Little Junkie Room’ That Quelled an Opioid Crisis
This month, as the Trump administration implements its long-promised agenda to combat opioid addiction by physically…
Right Wing Donors Are the Ones Threatening Campus Free Speech, You Idiots
The latest outrage over college students unfolded like some sort of play we are forced to watch over and over again. In…
Martin Shkreli, the Face of Every Crooked Pharma Exec in America, Is Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison
This morning Martin Shkreli, the unofficial spokesperson of wealthy people everywhere who get rich off the poor, was…
