Jacobin
- At NYC’s Richest Hospital, 4,200 Nurses Are Still on Strike
The largest and longest nurses’ strike in the city’s history is continuing at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) after nurses there decisively rejected the hospital chain’s contract offer 3,099 to 867. About 10,500 other nurses are starting to return to work today, ending the strike at three Manhattan hospitals run by Mt Sinai and at Montefiore Medical
- Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough
On Thursday, the Trump administration abruptly announced that it was ending the monthslong occupation of Minneapolis and St Paul by thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol officers. Donald Trump’s scandal-ridden “border czar,” Tom Homan, said that “a significant drawdown has already been underway this week and will continue to the next
- Trump Is Using Mexico’s Oil to Put the Squeeze on Cuba
In the days following the US abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on January 3, Donald Trump wasted little time in extending the threat to both Colombia and Mexico. Labeling President Gustavo Petro a “sick man,” Trump followed up by opining that an invasion of the country sounded “good to me.” As for Mexico, after
- The Class War on White-Collar Workers Is Just More Capitalism
Last week, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes took to X to announce that America’s white-collar workers were the latest victims of a newly waged class war captained by tech billionaires. The goal, he wrote, was “to do to white-collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue-collar workers.” That thread went viral because the narrative is
- There Is Still No Ceasefire in Sight for the People of Gaza
Last October, the Trump administration announced a ceasefire deal in Gaza after two years of relentless carnage. Since the deal was announced, Israel has continued to occupy much of Gaza, and its forces have killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has launched his so-called Board of Peace to administer Gaza without any input
Dissident Voice
- Everyone Is Allowed To Protest
Columbia University professor Bruce Robbins exposed his students to possible criticism of the Israeli military, and was, for that reason, declared by his employer guilty of discrimination and harassment. Robbins could have written a book on the absurdities involved in defining criticism of genocide as discrimination, and defining criticism of any military on Earth other The post Everyone Is Allowed To Protest appeared first on Dissident Voice.
- Poor Financial And Operational Performance Are Not Unique To Chicago Charter Schools
Charter schools are outsourced schools, also known as contract schools. They are privately operated, deregulated, and laser-focused on siphoning substantial sums of public money, services, and facilities from public schools. Charter schools are essentially pay-the-rich schemes masquerading as great inventions designed to close the century-old “achievement gap.” There is nothing grass-roots about them. Recognizing that The post Poor Financial And Operational Performance Are Not Unique To Chicago Charter Schools appeared first on Dissident Voice.
- The Antidote to Despair
We are living at a time of historical significance. We feel it in our bones, and it relentlessly gnaws at our consciousness. The familiar is rapidly unraveling. The transition to whatever is to come is disquieting and disorienting, and we don’t know how to respond. We cannot grasp these events because the ethical codes of The post The Antidote to Despair appeared first on Dissident Voice.
Mother Jones
- US Military Strikes Another Boat in the Caribbean Sea, Killing 3
The United States military killed three more people on Friday in their 39th boat attack in six months, according to a tracker maintained by the New York Times. All told, the strikes by US forces have killed at least 133 people in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. President Donald Trump’s administration has
- Judges Have Rebuked Trump’s Mass Detention of Immigrants Thousands of Times
Hundreds of judges across the nation have ruled over 4,400 times that President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement arm is detaining people unlawfully, according to a new Reuters review of court documents. And that’s just since October. The Trump administration’s immense increase in detainments rests, in part, on their decision to detain people while their immigration
- Their Courses Were No Longer Relevant, so These Economics Students Went to Work
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University walked out of their introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and limited view” that perpetuated “a problematic and inefficient system of
- Taken by ICE
Cecelia Lizotte owns Suya Joint, a celebrated Nigerian restaurant in Boston. She’s a rising star in the city who was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2024 and operates two restaurants and a food truck. But last year, a key employee—who happens to be her brother—was detained by ICE. “I’m not able to operate
- Elon Is Back? (Edit: He Never Really Left.)
Elon Musk, who formally distanced himself from the White House last year, hasn’t stopped trying to influence American politics. Musk took a step away from the Department of Government Efficiency—the agency he crafted and wielded against long-held federal spending practices. But, contrary to what some expected, that didn’t signal indefinite distance from Republican politics for
The Real News Network
- NO DEAL: Nurses at NY-Presbyterian overwhelmingly vote to stay on strike
“This has always been about getting a fair contract. We never wanted to go on strike… We want to do our jobs, we love our jobs, but we can only return when our patients are being cared for safely… with more staffing and job security.”
- Long Island Audit Reveals The Cost of Fighting ICE
Sean-Paul Reyes of the YouTube channel Long Island Audits dared to audit the facilities of Department of Homeland Security and confront ICE agents with his cameras. He explains the dangers of those actions as well as the difficulties in helping his viewers understand the importance of holding federal agents accountable.
- Massive strike at Kaiser Permanente enters third week with new unions joining the picket line
“It is not the same Kaiser… This is no longer a place to get your care. This is now an investment firm that dabbles in hospitals.”
The Progressive
- The Human Cost of Unregulated AI Tools
AI companies have a responsibility to respect human rights.
- The Equity Docket: When Only White Bloodshed Moves the Masses
What the death of Keith Porter Jr. and others killed by ICE reveal about racial politics in the United States.
- U.S. Imperialism Was Built In from the Beginning
An interview with historian Aviva Chomsky.
Z Network
- From Gaza to Cuba: How Canada Remains the World’s Most Tactful Bystander
The world is witnessing yet another manufactured humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in plain sight in Cuba. This crisis is not the result of any internal collapse or mismanagement. It is the deliberate outcome of United States policy, a policy of collective punishment designed to impose economic suffocation on an entire population to extract political change. President
- Elections 2026: Asia’s New Reactionary Playbook and the Future of Resistance
The march of the Ultra-Right in the Global South continues on, but unlike their Global North counterparts like Trump, Le Penn & Farage, as bleak as the future may seem, there are green shoots amongst the concrete. On 8 February 2026 following the Thai general election, there was a paradigm shift ushering in a new era
- The War on Drugs or the War on the Poor?
The constant insistence of the US discourse on the war on drugs seems to reflect a moral crusade by successive US administrations to rid their country of drug use. However, the truth is far removed from this simplistic idea that is often perpetuated by the mass media. In reality, what the so-called ‘War on Drugs’
Occupy.com
- Can the UK Green Party Surge Match Mamdani’s NYC Earthquake?
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
FAIR
- Like Melania Doc, WaPo Layoffs Are Another Way for Bezos to Suck Up to Trump
The Washington Post’s losses, reportedly as much as $100 million a year, are mere pocket change for Jeff Bezos.
- Ari Berman on Attacks on Voting
Some media still present changes to the electoral process that would make it harder for millions of people to vote as a matter of "election integrity."
- ‘What We’re Witnessing Is a Genocide Sustained’: CounterSpin interview with Rayan El Amine on voices from Gaza
"The only way that such a—I would call it what it is—colonial project could go unnoticed is under this project of ceasefire."
Counterpunch
- A Bloodstained Anniversary of the Revolution in Iran
The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, left the country on a journey to exile on January 16, 1979. Less than a month later, on February 11, the popular revolution triumphed and closed the book of monarchy. The day the Shah left was perhaps the happiest day in my life up to that point. I was at my university campus, Tehran Polytechnic, when the news arrived. I lit a cigarette, another bad habit of teenage years, and left the campus aimlessly just to join the joyous crowds. I had never seen an entire nation so exceptionally jubilant, deeply ecstatic, profoundly euphoric. People were holding up the front page of various newspapers, all of which read, in the largest font that could fit the page, the words “Shah Raft” (The Shah is Gone!). More The post A Bloodstained Anniversary of the Revolution in Iran appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Epstein and the Professors
When Jeffrey Epstein began harvesting professors for his dinners masked as seminars, he was drawing from a bountiful crop. It’s the rare professor who can’t be compromised by money. Add celebrity, fine food, first class travel and the whiff of decadence -- irresistible. So what if the person offering these things is a convicted sex offender? Epstein served his time, says the liberal professor; he paid his debt to society and it’s right to move on. Those young women with Slavic accents serving canapes and massaging Epstein’s neck are probably in college, or at least seniors in high school -- aren’t they? More The post Epstein and the Professors appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy
The United States is not merely awash in brutalizing and murderous acts of state-sanctioned violence. It is being restructured by them. The killings of Rachel Good and Alex Pretti are not aberrations or tragic mistakes; they belong to a longer and darker history that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People once named with chilling precision. In earlier periods of American turmoil, such killings were called lynchings, acts “carried out by lawless mobs, although police officers did participate, under the pretext of justice.” Today, this violence extends well beyond the bullet and the baton. It takes form in the expansion of prison camps, what Thom Hartmann rightly calls concentration camps, the war on immigrants, and the routine assault on Black and brown lives made disposable through policy, indifference, and neglect. More The post MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.