Meet the Gaza Mom Suing the U.S. Over Israel Military Aid
Despite a pause in Israel’s military assault on Gaza, there is a legal case being made that the United States is complicit in enabling Israeli genocide against Palestinians. The U.S. sends Israel...
View ArticleBeating Back Attacks on Voting Rights
In a ruling handed down in November, the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), making it harder to enforce the 1965 law. In a 2-1 decision, the...
View ArticleWhy Are Fossil Fuels Booming Under Biden?
When President Joe Biden announced his signature bill, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), it was touted as making “the single largest investment in climate and energy in American history.” But...
View ArticleWhy This Jewish American Activist Stands With Palestine
Mass protests against Israel’s assault on Gaza have been ongoing in the United States. According to Penny Rosenwasser, a founding board member of Jewish Voice for Peace, a majority of the high-profile...
View ArticleThe Most Censored Stories of the Year
Each year, Project Censored publishes its annual survey of independent journalism, State of the Free Press, consisting of stories that corporate news media failed to cover or badly misrepresented....
View ArticleBlack Americans Back Defunding Police
A new survey conducted by the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), in collaboration with GenForward at the University of Chicago, shows broad support among Black Americans for defunding police and instead...
View ArticleHow One Socialist Changed Seattle
Seattle’s famed socialist firebrand and city council member Kshama Sawant announced in January 2023 that she would not be seeking reelection at the end of the year. After a decade as an elected...
View ArticleWhat Will It Take to End Gaza Genocide?
South Africa has filed a genocide claim against Israel at the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The case centers on Israel’s relentless bombing of the Gaza Strip, considered to be the most...
View ArticleHow Tribes Are Restoring Wildlife and the Land
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington state are restoring the lands and species of their traditional ecological community after decades of settler-colonialism-fueled...
View ArticleSoil As a Source of Prosperity
What happens when subsistence farming communities are forced to be cogs in the giant wheels of industrial agriculture? The results are land dispossession, racial inequity, and the loss of human and...
View ArticleThe Politics of Claudine Gay’s Resignation
Harvard University’s first Black president and second woman president, Claudine Gay, was recently forced to resign in the wake of allegations that she engaged first in antisemitism and then in...
View ArticleVeterans Against Trump Call for Democratic Reforms
During the three years after the violent insurrection at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than a thousand people have been arrested and tried, and hundreds have been convicted in the...
View ArticleTrump Wins in Iowa. Now What?
A mere 30 minutes after the Iowa Republican caucuses began on Jan. 15, 2024, the Associated Press declared former president Donald Trump the winner of the nation’s first primary. Trump beat Florida...
View ArticleYemeni Houthis Take Direct Action Against Gaza Genocide
Houthi fighters from Yemen have been attacking commercial cargo ships and oil tankers in the Red Sea in an attempt to thwart Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, in solidarity with Palestinians. In...
View ArticleLessons in Pandemic Spending
Four years ago, the world economy faced a historic shutdown as COVID-19 began spreading across the globe. Families already living in precarity stood on the edge of financial collapse in the spring of...
View ArticleIsrael Is Using an Old Playbook to Justify Gaza Genocide
On Jan. 21, 2024, Gaza’s Ministry of Health announced that Israel has killed more than 25,000 Palestinians since it began its latest assault on the Gaza Strip. The grim death toll comes as the...
View ArticleWhat Could the U.S. Fund Without War?
The anti-war organization World BEYOND War recently launched a billboard campaign across California’s Bay Area. Now, half a dozen billboards highlight a shocking but little-known fact: The United...
View ArticleCombatting Anti-DEI Efforts
It’s been less than four years since the police killing of George Floyd sparked a racial justice uprising and prompted a mainstream embrace of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in...
View ArticleIjeoma Oluo Wants You to “Be a Revolution”
Mainstream news outlets tend to focus on the dire state of the world and less on the ways in which people are fighting back against oppression and injustice in their communities. But Ijeoma...
View ArticleTo the American Right, Trump Can Do No Wrong
A New York City jury has ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million in damages to journalist E. Jean Carroll for defamation. Trump had spent years maligning Carroll in public forums and on social...
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