Saturday, October 31, 2026

As coup evidence mounts, progressives eye Georgia to jail Trump, not feds

The January 6 committee, Justice Department, and activists are diverging.

Nonviolence or nonexistence? The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Reverend King posed the fundamental choice of our time: nonviolence or nonexistence. What is your choice?

The shame of injustice

Everything that causes injustice must be uprooted, within the structures under which we live, but also, and perhaps more importantly, within the consciousness of the individual.

UN rights chief says Trump’s boat strikes are illegal as death toll reaches 61

UN human rights officials, independent experts, and rights groups say U.S. airstrikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific violate international human rights law, amount to extrajudicial killings, and may constitute a crime against humanity.

Maryland bans fracking

“Maryland is taking a huge step forward, but communities are continuing to suffer as fracking and extreme extraction expands worldwide.”

The Migrant Crisis: Arms that Welcome, Arms that Kill

More than 12 million people have been displaced from Syria, where a brutal civil war has killed hundreds of thousands of people. How ironic many of the migrants are running to the countries that sold the weapons fueling the warfare in Syria.

We must be relentless in humanizing Palestinians

The human cost of conflict: reckoning with the dehumanization in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle.

Hate speech arrest of ex-US official sparks wider conversation on Islamophobia and anti-Arab sentiment

A clash of prejudice and justice: exposing the underbelly of racial and religious intolerance in America.
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Exclusive: Lizz Winstead and Abortion Stories in the Public Square

Lady Parts Justice League protested outside the Republican National Convention to raise awareness for pro-choice activism.

Human rights in 2018 – ten issues that made headlines

Here we highlight some of the rights challenges that captured the world’s attention this year, illustrating the struggle to secure human rights is far from over.