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Reader Comments: Fate of Democracy, Preparing for the Future; They Want You To Feel Powerless And To Surrender; Readers respond to pre-Election posts; Exterminate, Expel, Resettle: Israel’s Endgame in Northern Gaza; Cartoons; more....

How activists are building solidarity in battleground states and beyond.

Over 800 people have been detained at protests calling for the release of the hostages since the October 7 attack, with some spending hours or days in detention. Five of the arrestees detail their treatment at the hands of the police...

This isn’t a normal election. My community has been deeply traumatized by the genocide in Gaza and now the devastating war on Lebanon...Explain how punishing Vice-President Harris and enabling Donald Trump to become president will end the genocide...

Reader Comments: Donald Trump - We Reject You!; Israelis, Calling for Global Pressure on Israel To Force Immediate Ceasefire; Barbara Dane; Remembering Gustavo Gutierrez; Voter Intimidation and Election Worker Intimidation Resource Guide; more...

An exploration of how "victims of the past/ Inundated by the echoing pageantry of the government’s traumatizing machine/ Become the victimizers of the present." A tribute to "idealist youth/ Who daily defy/ Refusing to lie/ Valuing all/ Tikkun Olum.

More than 2,700 Israelis have signed this open letter, published in 11 languages, asking the international community to use ‘every possible sanction’ to ‘save us from ourselves’

Reader Comments: Elections - Ten Days to Go; Hard Lessons from 1968; Gaza War: Jews for Ceasefire; Learning from the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Calling for a Peace Movement; Project 2025- Why It’s Bad-Comic Resource; Announcements; Cartoons; more....

Hizbullah is not a personality-driven organisation, or claims not to be, but in Nasrallah it had a leader of unusual gifts.

Elections elsewhere