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The Cuban saga of Francis
Francis’ Cuban saga began in March 2014, when he wrote personal letters to Barack Obama and Raúl Castro. He offered the Vatican as neutral ground for discreet dialogue, which took place sometimes in public and sometimes in absolute confidentiality. He did so without fanfare or press releases, as is usually the case with efforts that pursue truly momentous goals.
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The attentional Oligarchy
Trumpism thrives on the arms race for our eyes and ears. Chris Hayes knows how to get out of it.
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What correctly defines Pan-Africanism in 2025 and beyond
Since its initial organizational expression in 1900, the phrase Pan-Africanism has been expressed in many different forms.
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The right to water: A new front in Trump’s aggression on Mexico
For the first time in 81 years, the U.S. denied Mexico’s request to supply water from the Colorado River to Tijuana.
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Terror on the campus
Let us forget for a moment the fact that the very existence of Israel is an instance of ruthless settler colonialism that has displaced millions of Palestinians and taken over their land.
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Morgan McSweeney’s ‘plot without precedent in Labour history’
A new book chronicles how Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used ‘any means necessary’ to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.
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Get ready for the end of Autism
The squatter and RFK Jr. have it all figured out—except for the figured out part.
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U.S. and Israel gangsterism has created a hobbesian International state of nature
Gaza has exposed the West’s ‘human rights’ as a colonial farce. Now, the world is experiencing a descent into imperial barbarism, and only collective resistance can build a future beyond fascism.
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The Department of Education is collecting delinquent Student Loan Debt
The Department of Education will withhold money from tax refunds and Social Security benefits, garnish federal employee wages, and withhold federal pensions from people who have defaulted on their student loan debt.
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FBI and police raid homes of Palestine activists in Michigan
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies raided multiple homes in Michigan, reportedly targeting a number of student activists connected to Gaza solidarity protests at the University of Michigan.
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We are the resistance
The UK Supreme Court does not change the reality of trans and non-binary people.
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Famed whistleblower Philip Agee among CIA officers who worked under State Department cover
Recently released documents as part of JFK dump show how CIA took charge of American embassies around the world operating under State Department cover.
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U.S. maternal deaths rise by 27% in 5 years
Recent research shows that the national average rate of maternal deaths is now 32.6 per 100,000 live births, with much higher rates seen for Indigenous mothers with 106.3 deaths, and Black mothers with 76.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, respectively.
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What can be passed down
How one North Carolina family fights the U.S. land policy that robs Black descendants of their inheritance—and their autonomy.
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Harvard welcomes MAGA witch hunt, becomes the hunted
The leadership of the Democratic Party nationally and especially in Massachusetts–who run the state from the U.S. Congress to its governor to Boston-area mayors and city councils–are championing the Harvard Corporation’s “standing up” to the Trump administration’s headline-grabbing attacks on Harvard.
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Trump’s NSC Director for Israel and Iran previously worked for Israeli Ministry of Defense
The story is co-reported with my Breaking Points colleague Saagar Enjeti. We’ll be covering it on the program Monday morning.
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Trump massacres Yemenis so Israel can massacre Palestinians
On April 17, U.S. airstrikes on Yemen killed 74 people and injured 171 in a dangerous escalation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against the poorest country in the Middle East.
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Mainstream obituaries are erasing Pope Francis’s deep concern for Palestine
Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.
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UN agency says nearly 600 children killed in renewed Israeli assault on Gaza
UNRWA warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated significantly, describing it as likely the worst it has been since the outbreak of the brutal Israeli military campaign in October 2023.
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‘Racism and ‘Free Speech’’ by Anshuman A Mondal, ’The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life’ by Sophia Rosenfeld reviewed by Guy Lancaster
‘The Ethics of Belief,’ an 1877 essay by Cambridge mathematician and philosopher William K. Clifford, begins with the story of a fictional shipowner whose seagoing vessel, he himself acknowledges, might not be as sound as should be.