Party Lines
Citizens of the Present
Megan Erickson & Miya Tokumitsu
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a child, whom he put among them, and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
A nutritious start to a healthy magazine
Megan Erickson & Miya Tokumitsu
Jenny Brown
In the United States, women face the prospect of becoming mothers without necessary social protections. Many decide it’s not worth the risk.
Connor Kilpatrick
Instead of challenging the pressures that capitalism puts on child-rearing, liberals surrender to it.
Math can be fun too
Higher social spending leads to better lives for children. The United States has a long way to go.
About one fifth of American children live in poverty. Their government’s negligence is to blame.
The correlation between climbing homicide rates and child migration is too obvious to deny.
Catherine Liu
The richness of childhood needs to be embraced as a social good.
Miya Tokumitsu
“The perfect mother” is a cudgel to cut down the flesh-and-blood variety.
Now let us raise your children.
A Jacobin glossary.
Eileen Jones
Disney-Pixar vs. Laika
Jonah Walters
No mother should be forced to give birth in conditions Beyoncé wouldn’t accept for herself.
Meagan Day
Participation trophies are actually good — give one to every child.
Maria Hengeveld
Workers need independent and strong unions, not corporate-sponsored NGOs, to fight their bosses and support their families.
Alex S. Vitale
If we want to offer children a better future, we need to get the criminal justice system out of their lives.
Branko Marcetic
Meet the Silicon Valley “disruptors” who want to teach your kids.
Some parting, warm memories.
Jonah Walters
Picket lines once made the best playgrounds around.
Bhaskar Sunkara
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