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Democratic Party Unites Under Banner of Silence on Gaza Genocide
Progressives and moderates came together to support Kamala Harris by largely ignoring the most pressing moral issue of our time.
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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The Outrageous Case of a Journalist Charged With a Hate Crime for Recording a Gaza Protest Action
“This appears to be a clear attempt to stifle both journalistic activities and pro-Palestine speech.”
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The Right-Wing Campaign to Purge Women From Women’s Sports
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is the latest athlete deemed insufficiently female by extremists obsessed with the strictest of gender binaries.
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Biden Is No Hero for Stepping Aside
President Joe Biden doesn’t deserve praise for dropping his reelection campaign. He deserves blame for getting us into this mess.
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The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose
The Trump rally shooting reveals a bipartisan consensus about what constitutes political violence — and who should wield it.
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Supporting Palestine Helped the Left Win in France and Britain. Will Democrats Learn From It?
Victories by the left in France and Britain offer powerful examples for U.S. progressives.
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Columbia Task Force for Dealing With Campus Protests Declares That Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
The task force revealed its plans not in a communiqué to faculty and students — but instead in an Israeli newspaper article.
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Joe Biden’s Cruel Border Shutdown Follows in Clinton and Obama’s Footsteps Too
The draconian restrictions on asylum-seekers owe a lot to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, but the path was paved by Democrats.
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New York Spends $225 Million on Its Own “Cop City” — to Make the Whole City Run on Cops
A proposed New York training facility shows how establishment politicians only understand governance through policing.
Israel’s War on Gaza
Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website
The students who edit the journal sought out the article by a Palestinian scholar who was censored by Harvard Law Review last year.