1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1589+ words) The new sanctions may be groundbreaking, but they’re also full of loopholes — including for certain weapons exports. The United Kingdom, joined by Canada and France, announced this week that they are taking action against Israeli settlements in the West Bank....

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (475+ words) Unions sued over the question, which asks job applicants to share how they would further the president’s agenda. A court’s decision to block the Trump administration from including a “loyalty question” on federal job applications was a win not only…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (800+ words) More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE. Just a year ago, Martín Soto was making breakfast at home with his wife, Gabriela, while their daughter got ready for her first day…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1191+ words) Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.” Atahualpa Sofía Enciso’s children don’t know what a normal river is, she says. Living by the Santiago River in the state of…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (362+ words) The ruling is one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s use of “energy emergency” powers. The Department of Energy overstepped when it ordered an aging coal-fired power plant in Michigan to stay open past its planned retirement…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1079+ words) Organizers are hard at work to convince officials to roll back an agreement with a private prison operator. Louisiana residents are mobilizing in opposition to the immigration jail with the help of CENLA Activism, a grassroots group of concerned residents…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (574+ words) National Nurses United is expanding its campaign against Palantir in a global week of action starting on September 28. National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S., is demanding that hospitals cut ties with Palantir, with nurses…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (172+ words) Philosopher George Yancy analyzes the contemporary expression of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the “entrails of whiteness.” The war on terror was not inevitable, nor was the extraordinary violence carried out in its name necessary. Two and a half decades after…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (360+ words) Nearly 6 in 10 Democrats said they back the socialist group. More than a quarter of U.S. voters, including the majority of Democrats, identify as supporters of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), new polling finds as left-wing ideology surges in popularity despite…...

3+ day, 27+ min ago   (427+ words) “This is what has become the norm in our politics,” one Democratic candidate said in reaction to the GOP event. The second night of the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, this week featured racist remarks from speakers and a…...