University students across the United States held a national day of action in solidarity with “Jane Doe,” the anonymous former student whose lawsuit alleging she was gang-raped by seven Cornell University Chi Phi fraternity members in 2024 has reignited outrage over how campuses and local law enforcement mishandle sexual assault cases and fail survivors. We go to Cornell’s campus in Ithaca, New York, where faculty have introduced a no-confidence resolution against the university administration. “The number one message that Cornell students have is that Jane Doe’s ordeal is the tip of the iceberg, that there have been many, many other cases where women have been sexually assaulted and raped at Cornell University, and they’re […]

The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, the South African jurist who led the United Nations commission of inquiry that concluded that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. Pillay’s long career in international human rights law includes work as a defense attorney for anti-apartheid activists, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, a former judge at the International Criminal Court and the U.N.’s high commissioner for human rights from 2008 to 2014. “Everybody in the human rights movement reveres Navi Pillay,” says war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody, who calls the award “a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump.” Brody, a member of the United Nations Group of Human Rights Experts […]

Protests have erupted in New York City after a federal immigration agent shot and wounded a man in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon. As masked agents reportedly posing as construction workers attempted to arrest 28-year-old Oscar Belgal, they opened fire on his car. Belgal was shot in the neck. His 5-year-old child, who was in the back seat, was physically unharmed. Belgal was taken to a local hospital, where hundreds, including our guests, Democratic congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier and New York City Councilmember Carmen De La Rosa, gathered to demand his release. “What we saw yesterday was a prime example of why [ICE] is a terror to our communities, why it should not exist,” says Avila Chevalier. She was among […]

Protests Erupt in New York After ICE Agent Shoots and Wounds Man, Video Shows Bystanders Attempting to Intervene in Violent ICE Arrest in New Jersey, Family Seeks Damages from U.S. over ICE Killing of Silverio Villegas González, USS Abraham Lincoln Arrives in San Diego After Arduous Deployment in Support of Iran War, Michigan Senate Candidates Clash over Trump’s Wars, U.S. Support for Israel in First Debate, Ukraine Says Russian Attacks Killed 78 Civilians in Two Days, Navi Pillay Wins Nobel Prize for “Efforts to Promote Peace and International Law”, DOJ Seeks Charges Against Former White House Aide and Jan. 6 Whistleblower Cassidy Hutchinson, Kimberly Guilfoyle Asked MAGA Donor to Pay $100K Credit Card Bill, Promising Access to […]

This week marks 25 years since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, the beginning of what would become the longest war in U.S. history. After installing a pro-Western government in Kabul in December 2001, U.S. and other NATO troops would remain in the country for the next two decades battling a stubborn insurgency — until a chaotic U.S. withdrawal in August 2021 that saw the Taliban return to power. “During the 20 years of America’s longest war in Afghanistan, we could clearly see that failure was coming,” says journalist Emran Feroz, just back from a month of reporting in Afghanistan. He says the relative economic and political gains under the Western-backed government were undercut by widespread corruption and violence, […]