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There's no way, and there won't be one, to justify or defend what Israel is doing in the West Bank. Under the cover of the war, with the full backing of the IDF.-.They are driving out Palestinian residents and seizing more and more of their land.

Young people carried Zohran Mamdani in his victory in the mayoral primary, stunning establishment Democrats and reshaping the electorate. Nowhere was this more clear than the so-called “Commie Corridor,” where young voters had extremely high turnout.

With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest. Today in Washington, DC the order is out - lock up the unhoused.

Trump doesn’t care about “crime.” He cares about the right white people being in charge. On his first day in office in 2025, he pardoned 1,500 people convicted of assault and property destruction on January 6.

A better world’s in birth

Mohammed and Anas were the eye behind the lens catching all the details to the world from Gaza City. They were the only two prominent voices left in Gaza.

“The president foreshadowed that if these heavy-handed tactics take root here, they will be rolled out to other majority-Black and Brown cities, like Chicago, Oakland and Baltimore, across the country.”

Donald Trump badly wants a deal to end the war in Ukraine. What is he willing to give up?

Fear-mongering is built on a series of myths about how the electorate in New York – and indeed, elsewhere –is likely to view candidates like Mamdani. What are these myths?