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The board of the non-profit Code for Science & Society blocked a statement against genocide. The fallout tore the high-profile organization apart. The events at CS&S are an example, of the label “progressive except for Palestine”.

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Health workers have become regular victims of violence, easy targets for a society that vents its anger against those who are there to care for others.

President-elect Donald Trump’s chief advisers would include one person who calls global warming an “existential” threat and some who don’t accept it as a problem at all.

"President Biden came into office committing to abolishing the federal death penalty because of its fundamental flaws. Commuting the federal row is the way he can honor that commitment," said one advocate.

Nineteen-year-old Sofia Orr was jailed for refusing to enlist in the Israeli military. In an interview with Jacobin, she explains the disturbing authoritarianism of an Israeli society that has rallied behind the massacre in Gaza.

More Trump screwball nominations are going down, and he belatedly agrees to let the FBI vet nominees—meaning that still more will fall.

"Josh Hawley’s long-threatened tome about American masculinity is here," writes this reviewer. "Savor it with me."

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for labor secretary, Oregon Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, has been portrayed as the rare pro-union Republican, but a quick review of her history as an elected representative reveals a more mixed record.