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

Surveillance and self-protection

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. 

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Lawmakers who support reproductive rights must recognize that abortion access and mass surveillance are incompatible. Systems built to track stolen cars and issue parking tickets have morphed into today’s reproductive dragnet.

Only a new governing coalition capable of expanding political democracy and beginning a process of structural change can push MAGA back to the margins. Lessons from the 2020 election and the Biden years help show a path toward that goal.

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.

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.

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.

Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks. New doctors from other countries account for one in six medical residents at U.S. teaching hospitals.