Thursday, July 16, 2026

Hate crime or isolated incident? Texas woman charged with attempted murder of Palestinian-American child

A shocking case in Euless, Texas, where a woman attempted to drown a 3-year-old Palestinian-American child, has sparked demands for a hate crime investigation amid rising anti-Muslim sentiments.
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Lights back on at NYC jail after hundreds protest, but prisoners still without heat...

Demonstrators rallied throughout the weekend to protest the conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center, which is run by the Bureau of Prisons.

Chief Obama trade negotiator: “We can get the votes” for TPP

“I don’t see how anyone could believe there was integrity in this process.”

Native American burial sites destroyed during Trump’s border wall construction

“There has been no consultation with the nation. This administration is basically trampling on the tribe’s history — and to put it poignantly, it’s ancestry.”

Trump signs new executive order revising Muslim travel ban

“President Trump still seems to believe you can determine who’s a terrorist by knowing which country a man, woman or child is from.”

‘A warrant is not a license to kill’: Rev. William Barber condemns police ‘execution’...

The family says it shows Brown was shot in the back of the head while his hands were on the steering wheel of a car, calling it an “execution.”

A progressive revival: Cleveland, Preston and municipal social democracy

One of the progressive left’s goals has to be to empower citizens and this is most easily done at the local level.

Chicago Alderman and her chief of staff indicted on bribery charges

Carrie Austin is now one of three sitting members of the City Council under federal indictment, along with Ed Burke and Patrick Daley Thompson.

Voting Rights Remain Under Attack 50 Years After the Bloody Sunday March in Selma

This past weekend, thousands of people, including President Obama and more than 100 members of Congress, marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Still, the Voting Rights Act is under peril today.

Normalizing vigilantism? The American right’s reaction to the Rittenhouse verdict

“This might be interpreted across the far right as a type of permission slip to do this kind of thing or to seek out altercations in this way.”