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How rank-and-file activists helped break their unions from politics-as-usual

Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone. Survivors describe stepping over corpses to get their hands on a bag of flour: ‘What choice do we have?’

A law banning healthcare for trans kids does not discriminate against trans kids, and other pearls of wisdom from the country’s sharpest legal minds.

Since taking office in January, President Trump has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by de-emphasizing that history or at times denying that it happened.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe

Despite the defeat of pro-worker referenda, bringing workers’ rights and dignity back to the top of the list in the public discourse, in a time saddened by wars and epochal challenges, can be considered a positive.

At two events in the suburbs of Chicago this spring, members of the Indian diaspora responded to the rise of ethnonationalism in very different ways.

Netanyahu’s boast that he will bring about regime change has produced the opposite effect. Hijabless women have been demonstrating in the streets, chanting ‘Get an atom bomb’. The country that urgently needs regime change is Israel. 

Trump is the most pliable. But Netanyahu plays them all like cheap violins, despite being wrong about every important matter of the last 25 years.

Smartphones are once again setting the agenda for justice as the Latino community documents ICE actions. On the ground, the videos helped inspire a “No Kings” movement, which organized protests in all 50 states on June 14, 2025.