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At the centre of the University of Southern California’s campus in Los Angeles stands a statue of Hecuba, queen of ancient Troy. “A statue...
“When exactly was America great?” is a common question often asked of Donald Trump loyalists sporting MAGA (Make America Great Again) hats. The...
Israel is imposing a famine on the more than two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, one million of whom are children. Twenty-seven children have...
Immigrants helped build this country, a fact no amount of racism or xenophobia can erase. Immigrants, including children, work in fields and...
“oh rafah. aching rafah. aching of refugees aching of tumbled houses bicycles severed from tank-warped tires and aching of bullet riddled...
Haiti and Honduras have made headlines in the last few weeks. Honduras’ former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, was just convicted in a U.S....
The world recently lost two principled opponents of war, but under drastically different circumstances. Johan Galtung died on February 17 at the age...
“Gaza has become a death zone,” says World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. As Israel’s assault on the besieged...
“This thing cannot just go on and on and on, indefinitely.” That is what Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said during Prime Minister’s...
Israel’s bombardment of Gaza continues, as Palestinians trapped there share videos of their own annihilation in real time. The estimated death toll...
On Tuesday, U.S. President Biden addressed the press while boarding the presidential helicopter, saying, “I don’t think we need a wider war in the...
Countless cases lay bare the raw injustice of the death penalty in the United States. The case of Richard Glossip is certainly one of them. He’s...
In 1948, the newly formed United Nations marked the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as The Convention on the Prevention...
If you’re flying on a Boeing, buckle up. Passengers aboard Alaska Airlines flight 1282 on Saturday, January 5 were lucky their seat belts were snug...
Barber is a renowned civil rights activist, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, a theologian and preacher. He’s a Yale Professor and Founding...
Three Palestinian students, friends since they were in elementary school in the occupied West Bank now attending different U.S. colleges, were...
Truth – and journalists – are the first casualties of the war on Gaza. As Israel’s seven-week bombardment of the Gaza Strip has killed over...
Em Berry recently published a poem, Because of Us, that reads: This morning I learned The English word gauze (finely woven medical cloth) Comes from...
In the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, the nation’s founding documents are on display, including the Bill of Rights, which enshrines free speech. As Israel...
Israel’s weeks-long bombardment of Gaza and recently-launched ground invasion has killed over 9,000 Palestinians, among them 3,700 children, with...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the UN Security Council on Tuesday about the latest siege of Gaza, saying, “To ease...
The death toll in Gaza continues to climb as Israel inflicts collective punishment on the 2.4 million Palestinians trapped inside the occupied...
As Israel intensifies its brutal response to Hamas’ brutal October 7 attack, it is important to hear from those at the target end of the weapons –...
On the afternoon of October 4, cell phones across the United States buzzed or beeped simultaneously, testing the national emergency alert system. Some...
National Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States runs from September 15 to October 15, starting mid-month when several nations celebrate their...
“Humanity has opened the gates of hell,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in his welcome to world leaders at the first ever...
On September 11, 2001, terror struck the United States. Three thousand people were killed that day, and many more died afterwards, from the pollution...
In May 1901, 150 white men gathered in Montgomery, Alabama to rewrite their state’s constitution. They elected John Knox, a prominent lawyer, to...