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In the five years since Floyd's death, dozens of cities and states have passed bans on no-knock warrants, expanded crisis response teams and introduced civilian review boards — wins drowned out by public fatigue.

The Democrats neglected their voter base in 2024 and failed to respond to Trump’s campaign with anything beyond the maintenance of a bankrupt neoliberalism.

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, Yet more horrors are hidden in the fine print.

Pretoria must now accept that Washington will inflame racial tensions in South Africa for the foreseeable future. What happens in our country is no longer just a foreign-policy file, but a live domestic wedge issue in MAGA-world. 

Newly available historical evidence shows that the U.S. was deeply involved with the key players who would ultimately assassinate Diem, up to and including the day of the coup. CIA leaders opposed the coup but were overruled by President Kennedy.

The Joint List was a historic electoral alliance of Palestinian-majority parties. Ten years after its formation, this experiment in Palestinian unity inside Israel — and its ultimate collapse — shows the need for carefully cultivated alliances.

Trump is not the first president to test the limits of authority. But the pace and scale of his defiance are without precedent. Courts are issuing rulings against many Trump decrees, but if there is a limit on presidential power, it is political.

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Noura Erakat highlighted the shortcomings of international law in stopping Israel's ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza while raising several steps that the international community can take to intervene.