Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Trump & Biden’s secret bombing wars

President Biden cannot restore the world’s respect for American leadership, or the American public’s support for our foreign policy, by piling more lies, secrets and atrocities on top of those he has inherited.

Suffering in the shadows

Humanitarian calamities that aren’t on the world’s agenda.

Senator Cory Booker is wrong—ICE doesn’t need ‘better training,’ ICE needs to be abolished

That being said, it’s the wholesale cowardice of the democratic party that is the cause of this disease—fascism. 

How one organization is keeping the spirit of Occupy Wall Street alive

Occupy Wall Street changed the world and how people articulated their grievances, but it did not last long enough to seize upon its own victories.

Israel halves aid to Gaza as ceasefire fractures over return of remains

UN officials say Israel will allow just 300 aid trucks per day into famine-stricken Gaza as fuel bans continue and rubble hampers recovery of hostages’ bodies.

The power play president

For Trump, peace negotiations and military operations are simply different means to the same end: total control.

The liberal arts are not disposable

A spinoff of a forthcoming book from Johns Hopkins Press about the value of the liberal arts.

Israeli MP Galit Distel Atbaryan advocates for erasing Gaza, raising alarm

An Israeli Member of Parliament's statement advocating for Gaza to be "erased from the face of the earth" raises alarm and highlights the intensifying rhetoric in the region.

Endangered wildlife are getting dosed with rat poisons

Products marketed to kill rodents are instead threatening the lives of the wildlife that eat them as poisons travel up the food chain.

The far right’s tipping point

Over the last decade, the world has suffered bouts of political whiplash as right-wing populists and their opponents have battled it out at the ballot box.