11+ hour, 54+ min ago   (1589+ words) The new sanctions may be groundbreaking, but they’re also full of loopholes — including for certain weapons exports. The United Kingdom, joined by Canada and France, announced this week that they are taking action against Israeli settlements in the West Bank....

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (343+ words) A top economist estimated that Trump’s Iran war has already cost the average American household an extra $1,650. Houthi forces have reportedly seized the entirety of Yemen’s Red Sea coastline, further solidifying the group’s control over its key waterway and sending…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (665+ words) Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has described a plan to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries. Nearly a year after Donald Trump announced the creation of the “Board of Peace,” which was ostensibly charged with ending Israel’s…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (172+ words) Philosopher George Yancy analyzes the contemporary expression of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the “entrails of whiteness.” The war on terror was not inevitable, nor was the extraordinary violence carried out in its name necessary. Two and a half decades after…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (584+ words) New Orleans is the latest to refuse a $300 million grant program that critics say would build Trump’s police state. After taking a “serious look” at applying for federal funding under the Trump administration’s Model Cities Initiative, the city leaders of…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1125+ words) “Here I am, thousands of miles away from my dreams,” said one 14-year-old. Despite the restrictions that had long stifled Gaza prior to October 7, 2023, it was a remarkably young society, shaped by high fertility rates and a culture in which…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (460+ words) Initial observations of the floods found they were caused by glacial collapse, likely a result of the climate crisis. Government leaders from Nepal are calling for climate justice in the wake of devastating glacial floods last month that killed 1,300 people…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (866+ words) CUNY has direct investments in weapons manufacturers enabling Israel’s genocide, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin. On Wednesday, September 9, activists from CUNY4Palestine broadcast their findings regarding the City University of New York’s (CUNY) investment portfolio in a press conference in front of…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (571+ words) Adam Abdullah of St. Paul, Minnesota, is a legal resident with no criminal background. Federal immigration authorities have sent a resident of St. Paul, Minnesota, to Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, despite the man having no criminal record and…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (987+ words) No space, either on land or in water, sits outside the drones’ reach, tightening the siege by the day. Sadeq Abdelhafiz, 26, noticed an unusual quiet around him as he stood in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza near the cemetery on…...