Monday, June 1, 2026

How a worker cooperative is mitigating the stray animal crisis in Texas

Houston’s Pet Care Co-op empowers humans and helps animals survive.

Resettling Gaza: Trump’s empire-building agenda?

Critics have accused Trump of endorsing a form of ethnic cleansing, a charge vehemently denied by his administration.

America’s nuclear gamble: The dangerous push to resume atmospheric testing

Experts warn of catastrophic fallout as calls grow to restart nuclear weapons tests abandoned since 1963.

Moving from a Doomsday Clock to a Peace Clock

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists only moved the hands of the Clock forward by one second, which must have come as a relief to the few members of the public who heard about it. 

The Gilded Age of animal advocacy: A transformative era for America’s moral compass

Nineteenth-century activists revolutionized attitudes toward nonhuman animals amid cultural, economic, and moral shifts in a rapidly changing nation.

Federal judges block Trump’s unconstitutional attempt to end birthright citizenship

Trump’s citizenship order faces legal defeat as judges reaffirm 14th Amendment protections.

Three months after Missouri voted to make abortion legal, access is still being blocked

Are anti-abortion lawmakers strategizing to prevent a return of abortion services?

The mass deportation handoff, Biden to Trump

Its essential assumption: that Biden adored open borders, while Trump, the demagogue, is on his way to executing a profitable clampdown on them.

‘People will die’: The Trump administration said it lifted its an on lifesaving humanitarian...

“I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.

Ask not For Whom the Bell Tolls: Police state unbound

"When Donne spoke of the bells tolling "for thee", he was referring to death. But it applies every time we turn a blind eye to those whose lives are being violated in our name."