My Week Inside Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment
Fri 8:07pm By Najib AminyIn the early morning, one can hear the birds perched on trees around the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University. Farther off, there are sounds of protest and counterprotest. But inside the camp itself—technically the second camp after the New York…Oklahoma Is Finally Trying to Cut Prison Time for Abused Moms
Fri 4:39pm By Samantha MichaelsA year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their abusers, state lawmakers passed a bill that could allow some of those mothers’ sentences to be shortened. But this week, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed…Trump’s Happy Birthday Message for Melania Is a Gift for His Haters
Fri 2:53pm By Inae OhThe first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels.…Raffi’s Guide to Fighting Fascism
Fri 6:00am By Emma SilversI became reacquainted with Raffi in the spring of 2020, around my son’s first birthday. These were the early days of the pandemic: People had barely stopped hoarding toilet paper; we’d started going to the car wash for fun. It was on one of these drives…G20 Ministers Get Behind a Global Wealth Tax on Billionaires
Fri 6:00am By Larry ElliottThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2 percent tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise about $313 billion a year for…Trump Denies the Affairs at the Heart of the Hush-Money Case. Almost No One Believes Him.
Thu 4:02pm By Dan FriedmanDonald Trump is on trial in Manhattan facing 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of another crime: conspiring to influence the 2016 election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argues that, to squelch negative publicity that might hurt…Samuel Alito Has a Very Strange Theory for How to Protect Democracy
Thu 3:29pm By Pema LevyOn Thursday, the Supreme Court held oral arguments over former President Donald Trump’s claims that he enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for engaging in what he contends were his official duties while in office. And one justice, Samuel…The GOP’s “Election Integrity” Lawyer Was Just Indicted for Election Subversion
Thu 11:12am By Pema LevyThe attorney running the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity” effort has been criminally charged by the state of Arizona for her efforts to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election. This turn of events highlights the Orwellian meaning of…Students Are Demanding Universities Divest From Israel—and Dirty Energy
Thu 6:00am By Dharna NoorThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating…Utility That Bribed Ohio Regulators Secretly Bankrolled Republican Mike DeWine’s 2018 Governor…
Thu 6:00am By Mario Alejandro Ariza and Jessie BalmertThis story was produced by Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. In 2018, the Akron, Ohio-based utility FirstEnergy donated $2.5 million to a Republican Governors Association-affiliated dark money…
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