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Headlines for September 03, 2026; Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon & Ms. Magazine Co-Founder, Dies at 92; “Catastrophic Failure”: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns Mail-In Voting Rules Could Derail Election; “Modern-Day Poll Tax”: Dem. Texas Commissioner…

Headlines for September 02, 2026; U.S. Empire in Decline: Richard Wolff on Iran War, Rising Inequality, $40T National Debt & More; “Went to Sea and Never Came Back”: Families of Fishermen Seek Answers After Deadly U.S. Boat Strikes; “Stand Up for…

Headlines for September 01, 2026; The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela’s Oil Reserves; U.S. Deports Thousands to Countries They Don’t Know Under Secretive “Third Country” Deal; Amid Severe Water Crisis &…

Headlines for August 31, 2026; “Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions”: Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing; The Real Reason There’s a Munitions Shortage? Too Many Wars & a Dysfunctional Pentagon: William Hartung; “Left Behind…

Headlines for August 28, 2026; “Shut Down Dilley”: Rep. Joaquin Castro on “Abusive” ICE Family Jail, Targeting of Military Families; Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is “Glaring Example of Climate Injustice”; “Don’t Be…

Filipino filmmaker Rafael Manuel discusses his debut feature film Filipiñana. Set at an upscale golf country club outside Manila, the film explores inequality, colonialism, structural violence and patriarchy. Filipiñana premiered at Sundance, where it won…

Headlines for August 27, 2026; As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late: Amba Kak; Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”; “Platform Extractivism”: Inside…

Part 2 of our conversation with Jack Crosbie of Rolling Stone, who has been reporting on the Prairieland Nine — the nine activists in Texas who were sentenced to between 30 and 100 years in connection to an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland ICE jail…

Headlines for August 26, 2026; “They Threw Me to the Wolves”: Karen Attiah on Censorship Under Trump, Winning Her WaPo Job Back; Trump’s Contested Order to Restrict Mail-In Voting Could Disenfranchise Millions: Ari Berman; “Most Americans Are Getting…

Headlines for August 25, 2026; U.S. Threatens New Economic War on Iran by Targeting China & Tehran’s Other Top Trading Partners; Illinois Is a Sanctuary State, But Cops & Prosecutors Still Secretly Work with ICE: Injustice Watch; Meet Prairieland Protester…

Headlines for August 24, 2026; “Most Stupid Trade Fight in History”: U.S. & Canadian Workers Stand to Lose in Trump’s New Tariff War; Montreal Considers Cutting Ties to Israel as Outrage Grows in Canada over Israeli Impunity: Avi Lewis; “Unbought &…

Headlines for August 21, 2026; As Pressure Grows, Israel Finally Opens Probe into 2024 Killing of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab in Gaza; Meet Loui Ridi: Palestinian American Returns to West Bank Home Besieged by Israeli Settlers; DOJ Whistleblower Confirms…

Headlines for August 20, 2026; 5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life; AI Superintelligence Is Not a Tool, It’s an Adversary Threatening Humanity: ControlAI’s Connor Leahy; “Love Machines”: James…