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“His first instinct almost always seems to be demonize someone as an enemy," said Sister Helen Prejean.
Big Tech seeks “a closer relationship to the state than they had before,” says author Quinn Slobodian.
Corporations have proposed building about 103 to 160 massive data centers on Native lands, says Krystal Two Bulls.
Advocate Setareh Ghandehari says rampant medical neglect and abuse are largely responsible for the rise in deaths.
Western countries condemn restrictions in the Hormuz Strait more than the “clearly unlawful war,” says Maryam Jamshidi.
Aliya Rahman hopes to highlight tools that could “make mass acts of racial violence seem too expensive for these folks.”
Congress “shouldn’t see these resignations as the end of the story,” gender justice expert Fatima Goss Graves says.
As Trump vows to blockade Iranian ports, the diplomats say his “mercurial” approach makes peace talks challenging.
Trump announced a blockade of Iranian ports and Iran threatened to strike other Gulf ports in retaliation.
Even far-right governments like Italy’s find it more difficult to show Trump support, scholar Nathalie Tocci says.
“The silence of states and the continued flow of weapons has only emboldened Israel,” researcher Ramzi Kaiss says.
“It’s beyond the wildest dreams of the military-industrial complex,” says Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman.
There has been “no accountability whatsoever for violations of the laws of war,” says researcher Ramzi Kaiss.
“ICE dungeons are systematically ... built to break people mentally,” Kordia said.
Trump's televised speech was an admission of “defeat in the war of narratives," says scholar Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi.
Workers are protesting low wages, lack of personal protective gear, and discrimination against immigrant employees.
Kiswani says she has been “screaming into the void” about the way Palestine activists have been targeted with violence.
Scahill also discusses possible avenues of US escalation and what he’s learned in conversations with Iranian officials.
As nuclear-armed countries violate international law, others may turn to proliferation as a form of deterrence.
Ramirez also discusses the birthright citizenship Supreme Court case, the US fuel blockade against Cuba, and more.
Daniel Levy analyzes US, Israeli, and Iranian wartime strategy; Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank; and more.
Antiwar veteran Mike Prysner attributes the spike to a shift in consciousness that started with the Gaza genocide.
People don’t feel like anywhere is safe in an unpredictable war that has no limits, says reporter Kareem Chehayeb.
Professor Laleh Khalili discusses the implications for the petrodollar and for sustainable alternatives to oil.
The system, known as Project Maven, also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic.
“Sanctions are literally killing people right now,” says Cuban journalist Daniel Montero, speaking from Havana.
Israeli strikes have killed nearly 700 people in Lebanon and over 800,000 people have been displaced.
Professor Narges Bajoghli explains how harsh sanctions and propaganda had created a political divide among Iranians.
People who were tracking civilian casualties have been reassigned to other jobs, says journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed.
War on Iran exposes “the frailty of a global order that is grounded in fossil fuels,” says journalist Antonia Juhasz.
Public focus on Iran has allowed the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to continue unabated, says journalist Orly Noy.
Far right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened to destroy areas of Lebanon as Israel did to Gaza.
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud also honors other fallen journalists, says Craig Renaud.
Iran is aiming for a war of attrition with the world’s biggest military superpower and another nuclear-armed state.
“All this does is heighten the determination of Indigenous people to find out how they can resist,” says Rami Khouri.
“These attacks are causing much suffering for Iranian people,” says a scholar who was on death row in Iran.
Even though Ellie Aghayeva was released, the university has long failed to stand up for its students, says Mahdawi.
For both 2024 and 2025, the Israeli military was responsible for two-thirds of all press killings.
“I was arrested for standing up,” says Rahman, who was removed from the chamber Tuesday and spent several hours in jail.
The Trump administration is defunding FEMA as well as climate research, making responding to such storms more difficult.
Israel continues to carry out strikes inside Gaza despite the US-brokered “ceasefire” that went into effect in October.
“I will continue to work for the freedom of the Palestinian people,” says Mohsen Mahdawi.
“Both sides actually believe that a short, intense war may improve their negotiating position,” says Trita Parsi.
The way to honor Jackson is to “intensify the struggle for racial and economic justice,” his campaign co-chair said.
Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Cuban ambassador to the UN, discusses how the US is also attacking medical programs and tourism.
Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani says Netanyahu aims to inject poison pills into the US-Iran negotiations so they fail.
Among other things, the move would undo the legal basis of the fight against global warming.
Journalist Carole Cadwalladr says the “self-censorship” happening in the United States is “deeply worrying.”
The Olympics have become a place to test new security and surveillance measures that then stay in place after the games.
“Journalism deserves better,” says Karen Attiah, who was fired last fall over comments about the death of Charlie Kirk.