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In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.”

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Civil society can’t be saved in the courts alone. It’s up to us as a people to stand up and push back.

'Hamas has nothing left to offer – nothing left to ensure even our basic survival,' one Gazan tells Haaretz, as Palestinians protest across the enclave, desperate for a deal that will stop Israel's bombings and end the war

The Morning Star's Brett Gregory speaks with Toby Manning, author of Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music. Manning asserts that “Rock and pop music were the unexpected consequences of the working-class entering history.”

The legal profession cannot afford to remain silent. Lawyers — especially those in positions of influence — have a responsibility to represent those being victimized and to speak up. Not to accommodate.

Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection.

The targeting of foreign students at Columbia, Tufts, Georgetown, and other universities has led to outcry among academics, particularly as the ICE abductions have taken place alongside threats from the Trump administration to pull funding...

Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson. It was never about eliminating antisemitism. It was always about silencing Palestine.