Jacobin
- India and Pakistan Are on the Brink of Catastrophe
Pakistan and India, two nuclear-armed rivals in South Asia, are once again on the brink of a catastrophe. On Wednesday, India launched missile strikes in nine different districts across Pakistan, killing at least thirty-one civilians, including an eight-year-old, in one of the most dangerous escalations in decades. The incident also witnessed the largest aerial battle
- Free Speech Is Under Attack in Texas
Texas is considering a sweeping set of legislative changes that would erode First Amendment protections, emboldening corporations and powerful individuals to use retaliatory lawsuits to silence their critics. If passed, the bills could unleash a torrent of defamation attacks against journalists and citizens at a time when major businesses, including Silicon Valley tech giants, are
- The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish
As pundits debate whether inflation or cultural grievance drove high numbers of working-class voters into Donald Trump’s embrace, legal scholar Joan C. Williams suggests a new approach to the problem. In her book Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back (St. Martin’s Press, 2025), Williams argues that the
- Germany’s New Chancellor Is a Man Without Qualities
There is a telling rumor in Berlin political circles. Upon his appointment as leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) in 2022, Friedrich Merz was gifted a copy of Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) by his conservative colleague Wolfgang Schäuble, the veteran former finance minister and then president of the German parliament. A dismayed Merz is said
- Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE
A massive aviation industry clearinghouse that processes data for twelve billion passenger flights per year is selling that information to the Trump administration amid the White House’s new immigration crackdown, according to documents reviewed by the Lever. The data — including “full flight itineraries, passenger name records, and financial details, which are otherwise difficult or impossible
Shadowproof
- Shadowproof Is Shutting Down
After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is coming entirely to an end. The post Shadowproof Is Shutting Down appeared first on Shadowproof.
In These Times
Occupy.com
- Confederacy of Dorks: Curtis Yarvin and the Techno-feudalists
Yarvin saw the “red pill” as the realization that the Enlightenment ideals he came to associate with “the cathedral” and democracy are actually a poison leading to societal decadence and decline.
Current Affairs
Mother Jones
- Tufts PhD Student Released From ICE Detention After Chilling Arrest
Tufts University PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk has been released from an immigration detention center in rural Louisiana in response to an order from a federal judge. Öztürk’s arrest led to nationwide outrage after a chilling video showed plainclothes immigration agents in masks pulling her off the street in Massachusetts in March. Öztürk, a 30-year-old Turkish
- White South African “Refugees” Will Soon Arrive in the United States
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump suspended refugee admissions from around the world. In February, Trump made one exception—ordering the US government to promote refugee resettlement for white South Africans. Now, the first group of Afrikaners is set to arrive. National Public Radio reports that a flight with 54 Afrikaners will arrive
- “They’re Trying to Kidnap Someone”
This dispatch by Bill Shaner, an independent journalist who writes the Worcester Sucks and I Love It newsletter, was first published by Luke O’Neil’s Welcome to Hell World. I’m driving five miles across the city to check out a tip that there’s an ICE rendition ongoing. I’ve got the scanner on the car stereo as
- Inside Alabama’s Threats to Prosecute Abortion Helpers
In August 2022, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall made a guest appearance on a local conservative talk radio show. It was two months after the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, and abortion was now illegal in Alabama. And Marshall addressed rumors that he planned to prosecute anyone helping people get abortions out of state.
- Purslane Sex and the City
This story was originally published by bioGraphic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Steps from a public bathroom, across a narrow street from a home goods store in Tokyo, Japan, a tangle of delicate reddish stems fringed with rubbery emerald leaves pokes from a crack in the pavement. Smaller than a discarded Big
Dissident Voice
- Beyond Socialist Purity
Orientation International political economy at a crossroads As most of you know the world economy is peppered with fault lines. On one hand we have the rising in the East of a new economic block, the BRICS nations and their friends. On the other hand, in the West we have a rapidly declining Yankeedom and The post Beyond Socialist Purity first appeared on Dissident Voice.
- AI is a Perfect Storm Threatening Humanity
© Getty Images/XH4D The global economy was already navigating a minefield of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) when US President Donald J. Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs reverberated across international markets. This aggressive escalation of trade barriers, including a mélange of sudden rate hikes, retaliatory measures, and rhetorical brinkmanship, didn’t just amplify the chaos; it The post AI is a Perfect Storm Threatening Humanity first appeared on Dissident Voice.
- Small Party Candidates
What the voter needs to know about small party candidates dedicated to the people. The post Small Party Candidates first appeared on Dissident Voice.
The Progressive
- The Anti-Fascist War
On the eightieth anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe, the history of World War II holds lessons about identifying fascism—and the need to create a united front to defeat it.
- Real Threats to Religious Freedom
Two recent court cases showcase the thinning line between state and church.
- Freedom Flotilla Heading to Gaza Attacked by Drones
About sixty activists were set to join those already on board to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Counterpunch
- A Silence That Kills
The problem with writing about Gaza is that words can’t explain what’s happening in Gaza. Neither can images, even the most gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. Because what needs to be explained is the inexplicable. What needs to be explicated is the silence in the face of horror. Israel has been brazenly upfront about its plans to To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post A Silence That Kills appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Roaming Charges: 100 Days of Turpitude
America finally got its Pope, but not the reactionary, the Opus Dei wing was furiously lobbying for. And not an anti-abortion zealot like Cardinal Dolan, either. (Though his views on homosexuality and gender appear to be more orthodox than his predecessor's.) Instead, the Vatican’s smokestack spewed white in honor of Robert Prevost, a Chicagoan, whose attitude, at least, seems that of a Southsider (Indeed, the new Pope's brother told WGN that Leo is a White Sox fan! They certainly need all the Divine intervention they can get.). For years, Prevost served as the head of the Augustinian Order, whose members, like the Franciscans, are instructed to lead simple lives and devote themselves to the ministration of the poor. More The post Roaming Charges: 100 Days of Turpitude appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Israel’s Continuing Defiance of International Law and Contempt for Palestinian Lives
The United Nations General Assembly (GA) asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give a non-binding advisory opinion on Israel’s obligations to facilitate aid into Palestinian territory. Starting April 28, for one week, diplomats and lawyers from 40 countries and three multilateral organizations argued in the Hague to try to force Israel to allow aid to enter. Once again Israel chose to ignore the ICJ, considered the World Court. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar called it “another shameful proceeding” meant to delegitimize Israel. More The post Israel’s Continuing Defiance of International Law and Contempt for Palestinian Lives appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
The American Prospect
Antiwar.com
- We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords
“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two ...
FAIR
- ‘Black History Is American History’: CounterSpin interview with Tanya Clay House on erasing history
"This administration is intent on repeating the sins of the past, which is why they don't want people to learn about what happened in the past."
- Bartlett Naylor on Meme Coin Grift, Ashley Nunes on Public Land Selloff
Our lack of knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will only hurt us in our response to the effects that the dealings around that stuff are having on our lives.
- ‘Our Position on Palestine Is Not Fringe’: CounterSpin interview with Danaka Katovich on attacks on activists
"Their goal here is to make people afraid of expressing a very normal human opinion."