With the World Focused on the Pandemic, Israel Prepares to Annex Large Swaths of the West Bank
This Israeli expansionism deserves far more attention in those countries, such as the U.S., which fund and enable it.
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Supreme Court Upholds Trans People’s Workplace Protections — but Trans Lives Remain Under Constant Threat
The ruling was a necessary victory, but anti-transgender discrimination and violence remain firmly embedded in American life.
Maria Ressa's Libel Conviction Is a Blow to Press Freedom
The case is part of Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign to persecute Ressa and her news organization, Rappler.
I Saw My Friends Beaten by Police. This Is What Happens When Cities Prioritize Property Over Black Lives.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot deployed hyperaggressive police to violently clamp down anti-racist protesters of police violence even as she praised them.
George Floyd's Murder May Finally End the Army's Fealty to Defeated Confederate Traitors
The men for whom the Army bases were named were passionate advocates of a slavocracy and often incompetent military leaders.
Police Budgets, Austerity, and Tax Cuts for the Rich Are Colliding in Democratic States and Cities
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis faces a question Democratic leaders across the country must grapple with, as budget pressures force a reckoning.
The Abrupt, Radical Reversal in How Public Health Experts Now Speak About the Coronavirus and Mass Gatherings
Is the change in posture about the coronavirus based on science or political ideology?
How the Far-Right Boogaloo Movement Is Trying to Hijack Anti-Racist Protests for a Race War
The real terror threat comes not from anti-fascists in black masks, but from actual fascists in Hawaiian shirts.
The New York Times Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year's Coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods Peddled by the U.S., Its Media, and the Times
The U.S. government and its media once again help destroy a thriving Latin American democracy.
Trump Built His Own Green Zone. He Got the Wall He Deserves.
Concrete barriers have been placed around the White House, an echo of the Green Zone in Iraq where U.S. officials lived in fear behind walls.