Courtney Martin

The “Oppression Olympics” are a distraction from the critical conversation about how race and gender matter in this election and in this country.

Let’s not kid ourselves: Most of America votes largely on the basis of personality. And every candidate fits a stereotype.

What’s the best way to decide how — and how much — to give to charity?

Staying informed has become — for so many of us — a moral obligation that feels like hell.

TAP talks to Ethan Nichtern, author of the new Buddhist political treatise One City, about faith, youth, 9-11, consumption, and powerlessness.

The institutionalization of activism on college campuses is a key culprit in the absence of visible youth movements in this country.

We strive to be truer or freer or smarter or richer or perhaps just happier than our own parents were. The American Idea is about generations in reaction and reinvention.

Thomas Friedman has mistaken my generation’s absolute paralysis in the face of so many choices, so many causes, and so much awareness, for a mere quiet.

Americans and their elected representatives need to start considering the relationship between the economy and quality of life.

Thursday’s rally in Jena, Louisiana, should be the starting point for a national conversation about the state of race relations in America.