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  • Democracy Now! Marks 30 Years with Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe & More

    A special broadcast: Highlights from Democracy Now!’s 30th anniversary celebration at the historic Riverside Church, featuring Angela Davis, Patti Smith, Mosab Abu Toha, Michael Stipe, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Amy Goodman, Juan González, Nermeen Shaikh and a surprise appearance by Bruce Springsteen.

  • "Top of the World": Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack

    A new documentary titled Top of the World tells the story of Windows on the World, the legendary restaurant atop the World Trade Center, through the eyes of its former employees. Windows on the World served guests for 25 years, until the morning of September 11, 2001, when it was destroyed in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Seventy-nine workers and 91 diners were killed. We’re joined by Top of the World's co-directors, Julie Cohen and Betsy West, and by Sekou Siby, a former line cook at Windows on the World. Siby, who immigrated to the United States from the Ivory Coast in 1996, was originally scheduled to work on the morning of September 11, but a co-worker asked him to switch shifts. “He didn't make it,” says Siby, who later […]

  • "Terrorizing Our City": ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops

    We go to Danbury, Connecticut, where residents held a mass demonstration this week to protest recent immigration arrests and to support the city’s immigrant community. Danbury, like many other communities across the United States, has been the target of a spike in immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, including local reports of ICE arresting parents at school bus stops. “We really have been describing it as the administration terrorizing our city, because that is what it felt like. The streets were empty. Kids stayed home from practice. Kids stayed home from school,” says Juliana Soares, the lead organizer for Danbury Unites for Immigrants. “Masked agents often would shut down the street to just abduct people. … […]

  • "They Got Zero Notice": 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois

    Tyson Foods, the United States’ largest meatpacking and processing company, shuttered a beef processing facility in Joslin, Illinois, last month, laying off more than 2,500 primarily immigrant workers “virtually overnight.” Although Tyson Foods CEO and President Donnie King made over $34 million last year, nearly 800 times more than the median Tyson worker, the company cites a historic 75-year low in the U.S. cattle herd as a primary reason for the closure. We speak to Caitlyn Clark, director of the group Essential Workers for Democracy, which is working to institute democratic reforms within the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), a labor union that represents more than a million workers across the United […]

  • Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech

    A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration violated the constitutional rights of international students in seeking to deport them for their pro-Palestinian activism and criticism of Israel. The ruling is the result of a lawsuit filed by The Stanford Daily, the student newspaper at Stanford University, which claimed that some of its writers on student visas declined to report on topics related to Israel and Palestine, or requested their published articles be removed from the paper’s website, for fear of deportation. “What we were hearing from the noncitizens in our newsroom and from noncitizens across campus — current students, former students, alumni — was that they were genuinely frightened because of what they saw in […]

Fair Observer

  • Can Europe Defend Itself? Rethinking the US Role in NATO

    US President Donald Trump has long held that NATO was costing the US “too much money.” As a presidential candidate in 2016, he pointed out that “NATO was set up when we were a richer country” and the time had come for Europe to share more of the costs of this longstanding alliance. In his… Continue reading Can Europe Defend Itself? Rethinking the US Role in NATO The post Can Europe Defend Itself? Rethinking the US Role in NATO appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • FO Talks: Making Sense of the AI Boom

    Fair Observer’s Chief Strategy Officer Peter Isackson and Devina Mehra, Founder and Chairperson of First Global, discuss whether artificial intelligence is creating a dangerous investment bubble. Mehra draws parallels between today’s AI boom and earlier periods of speculation, from the South Sea bubble to the dot-com crash and the rise of environmental, social and governance… Continue reading FO Talks: Making Sense of the AI Boom The post FO Talks: Making Sense of the AI Boom appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • The Death of the Expert? Why AGI Won’t Relieve Us of Dialogue — Part 2

    In my previous column, after examining the meaning of expert intelligence and the possible relationship between the way humans and AI approach the question of “understanding the world,” the chatbot and I agreed that attempting to quantify intelligence can only be a vain and misleading endeavor. No system of comparative evaluation exists that can frame… Continue reading The Death of the Expert? Why AGI Won’t Relieve Us of Dialogue — Part 2 The post The Death of the Expert? Why AGI Won’t Relieve Us of Dialogue — Part 2 appeared first on Fair Observer.

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Black Agenda Report

  • Black Agenda Report Will Return September 9, 2026!

    The Black Agenda Report team is taking our annual summer break. We will be back with a new issue on September 9, 2026. Thanks for your support, and we will see you soon!  

  • Black Agenda Radio August 28, 2026

    In this week’s segment, we hear about the crisis in northwest Indiana, including the city of Gary, where some residents have gone more than two weeks without power after a storm. As in the rest of the country, a supposedly public utility, which is actually a corporate entity, failed to meet […]

  • Journalist Sam Husseini Runs for Congress as a Green Party Candidate

    Our guest is Sam Husseini. He’s a veteran independent journalist and senior analyst at the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is now running for Congress in Maryland’s 4th district as a Green Party candidate. Sam discusses his work as a journalist and his congressional campaign.

The Guardian

  • Trump administration asks supreme court to allow voter verification database blocked by judge - US politics live

    Justice department petitions court to let it use revamped database for checking state voter rolls amid mounting concern over federal involvement in midtermsSign up for US Breaking News emailsFurther down the ballot in New Hampshire, the Democratic primary for Chris Pappas’s House seat has drawn eight candidates, with Stefany Shaheen – daughter of the outgoing senator – and Maura Sullivan, a former Obama administration official, leading the field.The district, long purple, has been reliably blue since 2017. Republicans now see it as flippable, and Donald Trump has endorsed Anthony DiLorenzo, a businessman who owns several car dealerships, in the GOP race. Continue reading...

  • Mass polygraphs at the Pentagon show Hegseth’s weakness | Margaret Sullivan

    The more defense secretary Pete Hegseth tries to flex his manly strength, the wimpier he looksThe more the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, tries to flex his manly strength, the wimpier he looks.The former Fox News host has attempted to seize control of what the public is allowed to know, but bad news keeps creeping out from the Pentagon.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

  • Trump’s call to rename New Mexico ‘New America’ is a distraction tactic, Democrats say

    Amid unpopular Iran war and persistent inflation, governor says state has had its name since before US existedDemocrats have hit back against Donald Trump’s suggestion that the state of New Mexico should be renamed “New America”, accusing the US president of trying to distract from his war on Iran and rising prices.The administration moved to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” hours after Trump’s return to office in January 2025. In August, as trade tensions escalated between the US and Canada, it moved to do the same with Lake Ontario, moving to rename it as “Lake America”. Continue reading...

  • New Hampshire voters head to polls in race crucial to Democrats’ Senate hopes

    Centrist Chris Pappas faces progressive primary challenger Karishma Manzur while Republicans eye chance to flip seatNew Hampshire voters head to the polls Tuesday for primaries that will set up a closely watched Senate contest – a vulnerable open seat Democrats must defend if they are to have any shot at reclaiming the upper chamber.The race opened when Jeanne Shaheen, 79, the state’s three‑term incumbent Democratic senator, announced her retirement. Congressman Chris Pappas, who represents New Hampshire’s first district, is seeking the nomination and enters the final stretch with a clear financial edge: more than $4m cash on hand, according to his latest filings. But his main challenger, Dr Karishma Manzur – a scientist and […]

  • Democrats need to win. Here’s the message our research says works

    Candidates must focus on two issues: affordability and accountability. They are not competing prioritiesAs the November election approaches with control of the House and Senate on the line, the stakes are high. With so much riding on the outcome, there is no shortage of debate about the message Democrats need to win.Affordability has emerged as a shared – if often undefined – rallying cry. Working families are struggling with rising costs and looking for answers. But too often, we’ve seen affordability positioned as the beginning and end of the plan. Meanwhile, many see holding the Trump administration accountable for its corruption and harms as at odds with a relentless focus on kitchen-table issues. Continue reading...

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Aeon

  • Our eloquent hands

    Physicians reject palmistry as nonsense. But reading the creases of our palms for hidden meaning is what doctors have always done- by Alison BashfordRead on Aeon

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The Conversation

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Yale Environment 360

  • Satellite Images of Penguin Droppings Reveal Impact of Antarctic Warming

    Penguin colonies are so large that their masses of excrement can be seen from space, offering scientists a useful means of studying the Antarctic birds. An analysis of 30 years of satellite images of penguin guano shows how the birds' diets are shifting in response to warming.Read more on E360 →

Inside Climate News

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    Truthout

    Labor Notes

    • Trabajadores de la salud luchan por la comunidad inmigrante en Vermont

      Los trabajadores de la salud quienes están luchando por un contrato sindical en Vermont han acudido a la mesa de negociaciones no solo con sus propias demandas de plantillas suficientes y salarios justos, sino también con una petición algo inusual: una planteada en solidaridad con trabajadores lecheros en el estado. Quieren que su empleador, el Centro Médico de la Universidad de Vermont, se una al programa “Leche con Dignidad”.

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