Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Conservationists sound alarm on plummeting giraffe numbers

This is just the beginning of a giraffe recovery.

Trump’s new spy chief used to work for a foreign politician the US accused...

Richard Grenell did not disclose payments for advocacy work on behalf of a Moldovan politician whom the U.S. later accused of corruption. His own office’s policy says that could leave him vulnerable to blackmail.

Donald (disaster) Trump

And worse yet, those groupings are likely to be with us long after our current president has gone off to that great cheeseburger stand in the sky.

Watch: Palestinian American lawmaker gives speech the DNC wouldn’t allow on stage

Ruwa Romman, a Palestinian American and Georgia state representative, shares the speech she was barred from giving at the Democratic National Convention after the Harris campaign refused to allow a Palestinian voice onstage.

Biological annihilation

To mitigate the crisis, to save life itself, would require not merely the replacement of carbon-dirty fossil fuels with renewable forms of energy, but a genuine reevaluation of modern life and its institutions.

Drilling, drilling, everywhere…

Will the Trump administration take down the Arctic Refuge?

The other America

The new politics of the poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) U.S.A...

How U.S. policy failures have helped Hamas

To begin with, Washington has failed to be an honest broker in the peace process.

NOC on the ground – Tennessee stands up to white supremacy

NationofChange's Zach D. Roberts reports from on the ground in Tennessee, where multiple white supremacist groups plan to converge this weekend for a series of marches and rallies.

What activists who fought the AIDS crisis can teach us about organizing during a...

“The biggest lesson that I learned from ACT UP is that a small group of people — extremely focused on analysis and practical solutions to the problem — can change the world”