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Silky Shah on Mass Deportation
Along with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Millers cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids.
Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats
Elite news media are Trojan-horsing their hatred for any ideas that threaten their ill-gotten gains, via very deep concerns about Zohran Mamdani as a person.
Adam Johnson on Media in War Mode
US corporate media in war mode are a force to reckon with. We do some reckoning with media analyst Adam Johnson.
Michael Galant on Sanctions & Immigration, LaToya Parker on Budget’s Racial Impacts
News media could help explain immigration by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from.
Chip Gibbons on Freeing Mahmoud Khalil, Farrah Hassen on Criminalizing Homelessness
Theres an important legal development in the case of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, held without warrant since March for voicing support for Palestinian lives.
Jeff Hauser on DOGE After Musk, Katya Schwenk on Boeing Deal
Reports are that Elon Musk is going back to make Tesla great again. Well talk about how to miss Musk when he wont go away.
Tom Morello on Music as Protest
Tom Morello's music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial and economic justice.
Bryce Covert on Work Requirements, Erin Reed on Trans Care ‘Questions’
The feint Congress is using to cut Medicarewere just forcing recipients to work, like they shouldis obvious, age-old and long-disproven.
With Friends in Media, Brazil’s Coffee Workers Don’t Need Enemies
The arguments advanced to justify banning coffee imports from Brazil to the US rely on outliers representing a tiny portion of the workforce, not the norm.
Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s Aid Blockade
Millions around the world ask every day what it will take to awaken the conscience of leaders to stop the genocide of Palestinians.