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A cowardly attack on disabled students
The squatter in the White House is laying siege to the Education Department’s civil rights division.
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Trump wants a super bigot to be ambassador to South Africa
Trump and his daddy, Fred Trump–who was arrested while participating in a 1927 Ku Klux Klan riot in Queens, New York–refused to rent to Black families.
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The tenth demand?
The latest drama at Columbia—involving interim President Katrina Armstrong’s “resignation”—has broad implications for the academy and American democracy. Once unpacked, this episode throws into sharp relief the issue of whether universities now operate at the pleasure of the White House.
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Scholasticide at the American Historical Association
Following an overwhelming membership vote in favor of a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza the Council of the American Historical Association, in a blatantly undemocratic act, vetoed the decision. The Council’s cowardly actions are complicit in a pattern on institutional silence (and worse) within the U.S. academy in the face of the U.S. backed genocide by Israel. Daniel Johnson reports on the events and plans to challenge this decision
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“Love your neighbor” Pope-Vance controversy
You don’t have to be Christian or a religious person or even a supporter of Pope Francis to appreciate his willingness to speak truth to power, and his efforts to get U.S. Catholic Bishops to do the same.
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Trump’s State Department would support literally any Israeli atrocity
Netanyahu could live stream himself kicking a baby Palestinian off a cliff and telling the camera he did it because he wants to commit genocide, and the next day Tammy Bruce would respond to all questions about the incident by yelling the word “Hamas!” with her fingers in her ears.
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‘The Encampments’
Encampments spring up at hundreds of campuses as students object to their own university’s investment in the U.S. and Israeli arms industry.
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“The target is unmistakable”: The shooting of Gaza’s children
American doctors who volunteered in Gaza report witnessing a disturbing pattern of children being shot by Israeli snipers.
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Senate Intelligence Committee hearing turns ugly with McCarthy-style lies about CODEPINK: Women for Peace
On March 25, at the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a group I have worked with for over 20 years, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, of being funded by the Communist Party of China.
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Thoughts on the Trump team’s Signal chat about bombing Yemen
The real currency of our world is not gold, nor bureaucratic fiat, nor even war machinery. The real currency of our world is narrative and the ability to control it.
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What is Esencia and what will happen to Puerto Rico if this is constructed?
Esencia is a massive $2 billion colonial development project aiming to seize over 2,000 acres of land, spanning three miles of beaches in Punta Melones, Cabo Rojo, by 2028.
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What Rodolfo Walsh would demand we write in his place: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2025)
As attacks on the media increase in Argentina and beyond, we reflect on the legacy of Rodolfo Walsh, a heroic journalist who fought the military dictatorship with his pen.
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European militarism on steroids is not good, either
Lacking in any strategic thinking, a new bellicism has swept up the elites and gone into cataclysmic overdrive in recent weeks.
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The U.S. hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop
An extraordinary three-part series on Israeli television, The Atom and Me, lays out how the country got its nuclear weapons.
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Israel kills Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat as U.S. media look away
The Israeli military killed Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist and correspondent for Al Jazeera and Drop Site News, on Monday, March 24.
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Trump threatens 25% tariff on Countries buying Venezuelan oil as U.S. continues migrant crackdown
The White House said it planned to once again invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to extradite Venezuelan nationals.
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Trump’s Star Wars revival: The Golden Dome antimissile fantasy
Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the next proponent who should know better.
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‘A small group of people wanted to do away with Social Security from the beginning’
CounterSpin interview with Nancy Altman on Social Security attacks.
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In complying with Trump’s demands to crack down on free speech, Columbia confesses that money, not education, is its goal
Columbia University quickly rolled over for the Trump administration’s demands to suppress pro-Palestinian protests, pulling back the thin veil of liberal academic freedom.
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Betar: The far-Right hate group helping Trump deport Israel’s critics
A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States.