Jacobin
- The New York City Nurses’ Strike Was a Historic Victory
I am one of the nearly 15,000 New York City nurses who went on the largest and longest nurse strike in New York City history. I work at Mount Sinai Morningside hospital in a surgical step-down unit and a medical surgical unit that sees a mix of patients with different needs. It can be a
- Reflecting on New York City’s Largest Nurses’ Strike
This winter saw the largest nurses’ strike in New York City’s history and one of the biggest in US history. On January 12, 2026, 15,000 nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) walked out across the city’s three biggest private sector hospital systems: Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian, and Montefiore. The strike was a
- Only Love Can Set the Looksmaxxer Free
By now, you’ve perhaps heard of looksmaxxers, the young men pursuing extreme physical transformation in the belief that appearance is the sole determinant of social and sexual success. If not, I’m sorry to have to inform you that they’re injecting gray-market steroids and peptides, getting experimental cosmetic surgeries, even hitting their own facial bones with
- Everyone Is Missing the Point of SCOTUS’s Tariffs Decision
Last month, on February 20, the long-anticipated tariffs decision finally landed. As we predicted in a previous article, the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration in Trump v. Learning Resources, Inc., holding that the president lacked the authority to impose his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
- Why They Hated Rosa Luxemburg
Since 1998, Rosa Luxemburg’s name has slowly been crumbling to pieces. Back then, she was included on a huge monument in Barcelona’s Montjuïc hill alongside twenty-four other founding fathers of the European project. She thus figures alongside Willy Brandt and Winston Churchill: now the site has fallen into disrepair. Yet even the fact that she
Mother Jones
- DOJ Is Trying to Convince a Judge That RFK Jr.’s Decisions Are Untouchable
A lawyer for the Justice Department argued on Wednesday that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine decisions are protected from legal scrutiny, in a case brought by medical groups challenging HHS’s vaccine policy changes. So much so that the Trump administration appears to believe that Kennedy’s actions are “totally unreviewable.” Reuters
- These Far-Right Conspiracists Are Pushing Trump to Take Control of Voting
On Monday afternoon, as war raged with Iran, President Trump was seemingly preoccupied with more trivial matters. “FREE TINA PETERS!” he wrote on Truth Social, referring to the former Colorado election clerk who’s serving a nine-year sentence for giving election conspiracists access to sensitive voting equipment. While it might seem odd for Trump to be
- Chevron’s Hometown Paper Is Quiet on Climate. Guess Who Owns It?
Children were starting to stream out of Peres Elementary School in Richmond, California, as activist Katt Ramos pointed towards a plume of smoke in the distance. Ramos is an activist who, at the time, helped to lead the Richmond chapter of Communities for a Better Environment. She was standing outside of the school in the
- Trump’s Actions Threaten the Integrity of Our National Parks, Critics Say
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just over a year ago, the Trump administration gutted staff across the National Park Service, triggering a series of protests around the country, a signal of the public’s deep passion for America’s “crown jewels.” Since then, the service has been in flux.
- “Downright Disgraceful”: Sen. Gillibrand on Stranded Americans Abroad
Without providing clear guidance on how to do so or how it will help, the United States government is advising Americans abroad to depart immediately from 14 countries, including Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Qatar, as its deadly offensive in Iran continues. Americans abroad remain stuck in place. Thousands of flights have been cancelled and there’s uncertainty
The Real News Network
- Why Target is the center of an ICE-out campaign in Minnesota
Labor organizer Veronica Mendez Moore explains why unions, worker centers, and other organizations are focusing on Target to lead the corporate push against ICE in Minnesota.
- The chilling truth behind ICE’s detention warehouses
“The idea that the Trump administration wants to hold human beings inside of warehouses like packages at logistic facilities like this might shock a lot of people, but this is the explicit language that the administration is using.”
- We covered a now-discredited medical examiner for two decades. These are the botched cases that still haunt us.
Maryland’s former chief medical examiner David Fowler helped decide the fate of many suspicious death investigations. After a scathing audit showed his office was rife with junk science and questionable rulings, we revisit the cases where Fowler’s rulings shut down the search for truth.
The Progressive
- ‘We Became the Easiest Target’: UNRWA Layoffs and Salary Cuts
The humanitarian agency laid off hundreds of employees, leaving many without income and hope.
- When Gaza’s Borders ‘Open,’ Israeli Control Simply Changes Shape
While the recent reopening of the Rafah border crossing was hailed as a humanitarian triumph, it instead serves as an example of control over Palestinian movement.
- Resisting the Data Center Boom
Small towns are taking on Big Tech—and some are winning.
Z Network
- Trying to Dig Deeper, or 21st Century Common Sense, Part 4
“A huge problem, up there at the top of the list, is that the history of efforts over the last many centuries to create truly just and democratic societies, run by organized people, not oligarchs, has at best yielded mixed results since the Russian Revolution of 1917.” These words were part of the first column
- Instead of Defeating China, Trump Is Accelerating Its Rise on the Global Stage
If you are not paying attention to the dramatic developments between China and the United States, you must understand that something consequential has just taken place. The US government is backtracking—if not altogether retreating—from the trade war and broader escalation it launched against China. Unlike the hyped language and repeated threats by President Donald Trump to impose
- The Rubble of Gaza and the Ghosts of Tokyo
Amid the so-called “ceasefire,” as imperial grifters and disaster capitalists jockey to remake Gaza in their image and in accordance with their own interests, the genocide has not abated. In its current phase, while the killing continues daily, its defining feature is the deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction
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.
Counterpunch
- Pete Hegseth’s Epic Fury
Monday morning, game face on, Hegseth did his best to explain to a skeptical country why we were — at Israel’s prompting — diving headfirst into another Middle East regime-change war; the very thing Trump railed against on the campaign trail. Standing before a bank of cameras, Hegseth looked well-coiffed (he didn’t install a makeup studio in the Pentagon for nothing!), but also angry — which is not the disposition you hope for in someone atop the world’s greatest killing machine. Operation Epic Fury was, I thought, an apt descriptor not just for our new war, but Hegseth’s mood. More The post Pete Hegseth’s Epic Fury appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- On War Powers, Questions Aren’t a Working Substitute for Action
No president has ever been held to account by, and punished by, Congress for exceeding his powers and exercising its, not his, prerogative of declaring war or not. Why would Trump consider himself an exception? And why wouldn't he try to stretch past administrations' ridiculous "unitary executive" claims even further? More The post On War Powers, Questions Aren’t a Working Substitute for Action appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Who Decides What is Legitimate? Power, Democracy, and the War on Iran
Democracy automatically sanctifies power. But electoral success does not neutralize war crimes. It does not erase violations of international law. It does not transform contested policies into moral truths. Democracy is valuable. But it is not a moral deterrent. More The post Who Decides What is Legitimate? Power, Democracy, and the War on Iran appeared first on CounterPunch.org.