Israel’s War on Gaza
Bed Bath & Beyond Scion Pressured Artists to Retract Gaza Ceasefire Call in Artforum Letter
The editor who published the letter in Artforum was fired after the wealthy art patron Martin Eisenberg’s behind-the-scenes push.
Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and the New York Times, among others. She is the associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”
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Scholastic Makes It Easy to Ban Black and LGBTQ+ Books
Caving to the far right, the children’s book giant lets school book fairs exclude diverse titles en masse.
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Texas Anti-Abortion Crusader Demands Abortion Patient Information In Court
The lawyer behind Texas's bounty hunter abortion ban is retaliating against people who get abortions and those who help them.
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Defying RICO Indictment, Faith Leaders Chain Themselves to Bulldozer to Stop Cop City
In solidarity with those facing racketeering charges, protesters against the planned police compound chose to stand their ground against state repression.
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Undercover Federal Police Shot and Paralyzed Unhoused Man in Wheelchair
According to Brooks Roberts’s wrongful shooting claim, officers opened fire when they saw he had a gun — but he thought his brother was being robbed.
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Alabama Trans Health Care Ruling Is a Worrying Omen for a Future SCOTUS Decision
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals pulled from Dobbs v. Jackson to argue trans health care isn’t “deeply rooted" in history.
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AI Isn’t Banning Books in Iowa Schools. Republicans Are.
Overstating the power of algorithmic systems only serves to benefit the tech companies behind them.
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Targeting Trans Kids, Florida School Board Requires Parental Approval for Nicknames
The Orange County Public Schools’ anti-trans policies are extreme, even in Ron DeSantis’s Florida.
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Atlanta City Leaders Are Subverting Democracy to Save Cop City
With a referendum against the police facility in the works, Atlanta is making sure it won’t be valid. Activists have other ways to fight.
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Judges Keep Ruling That Anti-Trans Health Care Bans Make Shitty Law. The GOP Isn’t Giving Up.
Republicans’ anti-abortion playbook shows they’re ready to fight the legal challenges — all the way to the Supreme Court.