Campus Protests Continue as ICC Issues Arrest Warrants
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli politicians, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for the crime of genocide, and...
View ArticleFeminism Is About Justice, Not War
Former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently made headlines for dismissing pro-Palestinian student protesters as being ignorant of the history of the Middle East. Liberal feminists...
View ArticleWhat “Access” Means for YES! Magazine
The summer 2024 issue of YES! Magazine has just dropped and is themed around the idea of “Access.” In her editor’s letter, YES! Executive Editor Evette Dionne asks the question “What if we lived in a...
View ArticleIsrael Attacks Rafah Refugee Camp, Killing Dozens
An Israeli strike on a refugee camp in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, has killed at least 45 people and injured more than 200. Palestinians displaced by more than six months of genocidal assault...
View ArticleCan the DOJ Break Up Live Nation’s Monopoly?
The United States Department of Justice has launched a lawsuit against Live Nation and its ownership of Ticketmaster. According to the Associated Press, “Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket...
View ArticleToward a Multiracial Immigrants’ Rights Movement
The issue of immigration tends to reach a fever pitch during election years. But organizers work continuously between election cycles for immigrants’ rights. In a new op-ed for YES!, writer Ingrid...
View ArticleTrump Becomes the First President Turned Felon
Former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been convicted on 34 felony charges in New York in a case stemming from a hush-money incident that took place ahead of...
View ArticleDoes Biden’s Border Policy Look Like Trump’s?
Just weeks before incumbent president Joe Biden faces Donald Trump for the first pre-election debate of 2024, his administration announced it would adopt an order temporarily sealing off the...
View ArticleAddressing America’s Political Amnesia
A new poll found that nearly half of all independent voters in the United States and 15% of Republican voters want Donald Trump to suspend his campaign following his recent felony convictions in a...
View ArticleIndian Voters Deliver Blow to Prime Minister Modi and BJP
India, the world’s largest democracy, recently concluded its six-week-long election and delivered a blow to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), whose leader, Narendra Modi, has been prime...
View ArticleMarking Father’s Day From Behind Bars
This Sunday, June 16, marks Father’s Day, a day when many families celebrate the father figures in their lives—biological, adopted, surrogate, or chosen—with brunches, lunches, or barbecues, and make...
View ArticleWhy This Vegan Restaurant Introduced Meat
A popular vegan-friendly restaurant chain in Southern California is under fire—from vegans. Sage Regenerative Kitchen, formerly known as Sage Vegan Bistro, announced earlier this year that it would be...
View ArticleWhy the Boy Scouts Are Rebranding
After more than a century of existence, some of it fraught by serious controversy, the Boy Scouts of America announced in May 2024 it would rename itself to “Scouting America” in order to be more...
View ArticleSerj Tankian Says “Down With the System”
Few mainstream musicians begin their memoirs with a political analysis of United States foreign policy. But Serj Tankian, the lead singer of Grammy-winning System of a Down, is no ordinary rock star....
View ArticleHow Three Young Women of Color Took on Power
What happens when young people are confronted with serious social and political problems that they know are not being tackled by grown-ups? Sometimes they become activists and warriors for justice. In...
View ArticleCan Connection Be the Cure for What Ails Us?
The health care system in the United States is generally individualist, requiring people to acquire health insurance and find a personal physician who will prescribe medication as needed for physical...
View ArticleThe Battle Over Biden
President Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in the first presidential debate of 2024 has sparked serious questions about his candidacy within his own party—even among those who have backed him...
View ArticleLand as Reparations
The California State Legislature just announced a meager $12 million as a first step toward funding reparations-related efforts in the nation’s most populous state. The funding was announced months...
View ArticleAre the Olympics Still Relevant?
Ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics, hotels and airlines in the French capital are ironically seeing plummeting sales as tourists avoid the predictable frenzy. The Olympics, held every four years, were...
View ArticleHow to Save Democracy From the Supreme Court
Of all the rulings made by conservative justices on the United States Supreme Court this term, none might be as consequential as the decision to make former president Donald Trump immune from criminal...
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