2020

black and white photograph of our new executive editor, Vivian Veidt

Letter From the Editor, OpinionOctober 1, 2020<October 1, 2020

Voices
A Letter of Introduction from the Executive Editor

by Vivian Veidt

To our returning readers, I wish you a familiar comfort in this time of unparalleled estrangement. To our new readers, I bid you welcome…

drawings of faceless people grasping at their throats for breath

NewsSeptember 28, 2020<October 1, 2020

Waiting to Exhale
The stress of unemployment and governmental stalement

by Conor Carroll

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 2020 had the highest rate of unemployment nationally and the largest month to month increase since…

Digital illustration of a person struggling to hold an unequal pile of blocks.

OpinionMay 2, 2020<May 14, 2020

An Unequal Pandemic
Common labor is deemed essential, spotlight shines on the absurdity of inequality

by Wallace Milner

As I write this, several thousand Americans have died of the COVID-19 coronavirus. By the time it is read, that number could be drastically…

Letter From the EditorMay 1, 2020<May 1, 2020

The Longest Year
Only five months in with quite a ways still to go

by Jake Johnson

illustration by Josh Gates Life during the reign of COVID-19 has been weird, and it will continue to get weirder. Articles by a variety…

A computer animated Joe Biden, shoulders up, in front of a dark red background. He is facing to his right, staring sternly into the distance.

OpinionApril 4, 2020<April 4, 2020

The Case Against Joe Biden
Biden isn’t enough, but we still have time to turn this election around.

by McKinzie Smith

If Joe Biden gets the Democratic nomination, the DNC will have failed the American people once again. Progressives need to rally behind Bernie Sanders…