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In an age of mass protest, why aren’t we winning?

Discussion about the failure to see that Hamas had the capability and intent to do what it did isn’t being linked to something that would be obvious to any historian of colonialism: these intelligence failures are inherent to any colonial project.

Did large dinosaurs go extinct the way a Hemingway character quipped he went broke: “gradually, then suddenly”? Eoneophron adds evidence that caenagnathids were doing quite well for themselves before the asteroid ruined everything.

How did a single chapter from a book written over six decades ago by a Black psychiatrist, who never discussed the Israel-Palestine issue, become widely cited in relation to October 7? A new biography explores the life of Frantz Fanon.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was the tie-breaking vote on a measure that conflicts with Biden’s strategy in the Middle East.

Gary, Indiana’s long-running lawsuit against the world’s largest gunmakers is jeopardized by a bill that would allow only the state to sue.

Insiders say pressure from the top results in credulous reporting of Israeli claims and silencing of Palestinian perspectives

From “Salt of the Earth” to “Barbie”

An interactive tool that shows the income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living, for every County in the United States.

Internal AIPAC materials reveal huge gifts from moguls — and the strategies lobbyists used to score the cash.