This Is What It Looks Like When Teachers Organize
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than 3,000 teachers in Oakland stood on picket lines for a second straight day Friday to demand better pay, smaller class sizes, and more resources for their district’s beleaguered schools. On Thursday, I joined my colleague Edwin Rios as he reported on the first…
Portraits of America’s Genderqueer Community
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Her whole life, Chloe Aftel has been told she doesn’t behave like a lady. Plainspoken and assertive, she realized in adolescence that adults expected her to be demure. As Aftel grew into herself in a binary-focused, heteronormative world, she found herself asking: “Who made up…
Beyond Cigars and Vintage Cars: A New Photobook Shows You What Havana Really Looks Like Now
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Havana Youth, the debut photobook by Washington, DC–based photographer Greg Kahn, shines a light on the new Havana—feisty, sexy, alive, and evolving. It’s a stark contrast to the place stuck in time, as so many Americans have come to know Cuba. Kahn reveals a vibrant city…
Two Years Ago, the Trump Administration Limited Abortion Access Worldwide. These Powerful Images Reveal the Impact.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When we met M, still dressed in her fast-food uniform tightly fitted around her pregnant belly, she looked lost. She shyly approached us in Gandhi Square, a main thoroughfare in Johannesburg, South Africa, and asked if we knew the location of a “women’s clinic.” My…
On the Road With Matthew Houck, a.k.a. Phosphorescent
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Matthew Houck, who has long recorded and performed as Phosphorescent, performed with his band last month at the East Williamsburg venue Brooklyn Steel for the second to last show (opener: Liz Cooper & the Stampede) of their European and US tour. Houck, best known…
These Haunting Photos Show the Pain of Native Children Ripped From Their Parents
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The truth revealed itself slowly but insistently. In 2015, photographer Daniella Zalcman had traveled to Canada to document a public health crisis among the country’s indigenous people, who had one of the world’s fastest-growing rates of HIV infection. As she interviewed subjects in Saskatchewan, Ontario,…