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What It’s Like on the Gaza-Bound Flotilla Attacked by Drones
Flotilla volunteer Tommy Marcus and human rights lawyer Diana Buttu speak on Israel’s aid blockade and continued bombardment on Gaza.
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Trump’s Cult of Power Cancels Free Speech
Adam Johnson of “Citations Needed” on the White House’s weaponization of Kirk’s death and the broader rightward tilt of the media.
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The Real Charlie Kirk
Akela Lacy, Natasha Lennard, and Ali Breland on the weaponization of Kirk’s murder and increasing political violence.
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Unhinged: A Return to Washington
Akela Lacy, Jessica Washington, and Matt Sledge break down the battle over the Epstein files, looming government shutdown, and National Guard occupation.
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The Housing Hunger Games
“How extremely profitable all of this precarity has become.” Author Brian Goldstone on working and homelessness in today’s America.
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Democrats Are Missing Political Layups And Dooming Us All
Veteran strategist Nina Smith warns the Democratic Party is failing at the basics.
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Beyond Dobbs: How Abortion Bans Enforce State-Sanctioned Violence
Journalist Kylie Cheung on why post-Dobbs restrictions “aren’t unintended consequences.”
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“A Purely Manmade Famine”: How Israel Is Starving Gaza
The International Rescue Committee’s Bob Kitchen unpacks how Israel’s war and aid restrictions, not food shortage, are driving Gaza’s hunger crisis.
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Decades of Denial: Policing’s Past Haunts the Present
Rick Loessberg and Akela Lacy trace the trajectory of America’s unfinished reckoning with policing, from the 1967 Kerner Report to the George Floyd protests to Trump 2.0.
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Starvation as a Weapon: Chris Hedges on Gaza
While the U.S. backs Israel, Gaza’s civilian population faces mass starvation and death. Journalist and author Chris Hedges traces the roots of this unfolding atrocity.