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Trump is trying to destroy our nation's most vital asset—our innovative minds and ability to think for ourselves.
The only solution is that Israel's settler colonialism must be challenged, curtailed, and ultimately defeated.
Attempts to develop independent Palestinian economic growth through the Builders for Peace program 30 years ago were derailed by Israeli restrictions.
All over the country, resistance is rising. Here's my advice: be part of it.
Simultaneously we face two interconnected existential threats. We must abolish nuclear weapons so that we can move forward and properly address our...
The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil is part of the Trump administration’s larger project of creating and sustaining the illusion of endless...
This week's gambit: Africa should rely on... coal
There is an opportunity for the international legal and political system to be fixed based on new standards, justice that applies to all, and...
As Musk and crew gleefully erase 250 years of accomplishment—by turns, glorious and imperfect—they are creating a seemingly irreversible path to...
Do not pretend to be anything other than yourself attempting to gain the approval of heartless authority and petty tyrants of the everyday kind.
The insurers that played a role in facilitating the very climate disasters now affecting their former customers have effectively cut and run,...
DEI’s fundamental contradiction was this: It argued that race is a social invention—a system created to control people by reducing...
The current cyber-coup in Washington, D.C. by this country’s tech broligarchy is intended in part to remove the stigma from the politics of hatred...
In just one month, the only demonstrated deference of Zeldin, Burgum, Wright, Duffy, and Lutnick is to President Trump’s mantra of “drill, baby,...
As long as U.S. policy is one of annexation and domination, Hoekstra deserves to be treated as a hostile guest—not an ambassador worthy of...
Two generations of family history has convinced me that a deeply divided Weimer-like democracy can be destroyed from the inside out, even one that...
This year’s International Women’s Day theme, #AccelerateAction, calls on the world to address the structural barriers slowing progress. If we are...
If the Democrats stand with the fast-growing resistance by the people, they can stop the Trump madness and save what is left of our democracy.
Used as a poster child for health and justice in the academy when it was politically convenient, I am now facing intense repression for speaking up...
His rhetoric of ending “forever wars” masks a calculated strategy—one that replaces direct military intervention with economic control, resource...
If Trump moves forward with reducing U.S. involvement in the alliance, European countries may be forced to explore alternative security frameworks.
Perhaps Trump’s big lie about Haitians eating pets was just a smokescreen to squelch speculations about something diabolical occurring at...
As we enter a period of our history defined by billionaire oligarchs and the rule of the richest, it’s more important than ever to have agencies...
Due largely to the U.S. president's deference to Israel's far-right prime minister, the most likely near-term scenario for the Gaza Strip is thus a...
Whether you’re driven by a desire to protect the environment or the need to reduce waste mindfully, dedicating one day each week to a plastic-free...
if you've understandably been under a rock, know that our great leader just hurled a long weird bilious speech to what's left of Congress. He vowed...
It isn’t too late to stop this disaster. Everyone should call their members of Congress. Tell them that cuts to the Social Security Administration...
Trump’s foreign policy has already proved a surprising throwback to a McKinleyesque version of great-power politics marked by the urge to take...
We hope that communities and non-academic organizations across the country find ways to stand with all college and university students on the...
The goal is to make interacting with Social Security such a difficult and painful process that retired Americans will get angry with the government...
The time has arrived for diplomacy that brings collective security to Europe, Ukraine, and Russia.
Immigrant families are the latest punished in our political—and informational—crisis.