Jacobin
- What Universal Childcare Should Look Like
Earlier this month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled the initial stages of a plan for universal childcare. To discuss the recent history of childcare policy in New York City, and the lessons it may hold for the Mamdani administration, Nathan Gusdorf spoke with Josh Wallack, an early childhood policy expert who served
- A Child’s Voice Demands to Be Heard in The Voice of Hind Rajab
For decades, François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows has stood as cinema’s definitive portrait of an unhappy childhood. Kaouther Ben Hania’s devastating new film, The Voice of Hind Rajab, may finally dislodge it. Centered on the real-life story of a five-year-old Palestinian girl, the film renders Truffaut’s adolescent anguish almost quaint by comparison. Built around real
- The Epstein Whistleblower Who Was Silenced
A former compliance officer for the international financial powerhouse Deutsche Bank told the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) she was fired in 2018 after raising concerns about suspicious banking activity from accounts owned by financier and sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, as well as accounts linked to Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, adviser, and business partner. The
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Channeling FDR
In 2021, Academy Award–winning director Alex Gibney and I published a desperate plea. In a Rolling Stone essay, we implored Democrats then in power to heed Franklin D. Roosevelt’s (FDR) long-forgotten warning about the link between economic hardship and authoritarianism. Five years later, it appears that at least one prospective Democratic presidential candidate understands the warning — and
- Politics Is Everywhere, So Why Do People Feel So Powerless?
Halfway through his acclaimed novel Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico inserts a particularly revealing episode. It is 2015 and Anna and Tom are both graphic designers, working in one of Berlin’s trendiest neighborhoods. Their comfortable life is suddenly interrupted, however, when a picture surfaces on social media and soon goes viral. It is an image of Alan
Mother Jones
- CBS Didn’t Want Colbert to Talk to This Democratic Candidate. He Did It Anyway.
Executives at CBS News made it clear to Late Show host Stephen Colbert: he wasn’t to interview Texas state Rep. James Talarico last night, nor was he to discuss how he wasn’t supposed to talk to the Democratic US Senate hopeful. But Colbert, who only has months left of his tenure on the show after
- Murdoch’s Defense in Epstein Lawsuit: Trump Is Lewd
A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Sometimes there’s no smoking gun, but there’s the smell
- Louisiana Bets Big on “Blue Ammonia.” Communities Along Cancer Alley Brace for the Cost.
This story is from Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action. Sign up for Floodlight’s newsletter here. From her home in Donaldsonville, La., less than three miles from the world’s largest ammonia plant, Ashley Gaignard says the air itself carries a chemical edge. The odor, she said, is sharp and lingering.
- Trump’s Climate Repeal Will Kill America’s Transition From Gas Guzzlers to EVs
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding on the dangers of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is aiming to take out many federal actions on climate change in one blast. The first impact of this deregulatory
- They Just Wanted to Grow Food. Their Suburban Neighbors Declared War.
This article is adapted from Kate Brown’s new book, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City, which will be published February 17, 2026, Copyright W. W. Norton & Company. In 2013, Nicole and Dan Virgil lived in a lush, affluent suburb of Chicago. Dan had a good job. Nicole home-schooled their
The Real News Network
- SOS: The US is manufacturing a humanitarian crisis in Cuba
“I need to believe that Cuba is going to survive this. We are survivors, the whole Cuban population. But the situation is really critical…”
- Data center giant secures $14 million deal to consume 40% of Pennsylvania town’s excess water
The data center will get access to 400,000 gallons of water per day—enough to serve over 2,300 homes.
- 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.”
The Progressive
- The Trump Center for Performative Narcissism
I’m mourning what the Kennedy Center was, and what it is becoming.
- Property Tax Reforms Can Bring Racial Justice
Homes in Black neighborhoods are more likely to be over-assessed for tax purposes while being undervalued by private appraisers.
- Surviving in Gaza Through Learning, Writing, and Freelancing
Writing and reporting has become part of my informal education—a lesson in perseverance in a world that gives you nothing easily.
Z Network
- EU Election Observers Visit The Deltagram to Discuss 13th General Election in Bangladesh
Two members of the European Union’s Election Observer Mission visited The Deltagram yesterday to seek the newspaper’s assessment of Bangladesh’s 13th general election. The delegation included Karin Bergquist and Žiga Šubic, long-term election observers with the EU mission. They met Ahmede Hussain, editor of thedeltagram.com, at the publication’s office in Dhaka. The visit formed part of the
- Dancing With the Beautiful People
It was a privilege to sit and stand, to chant and dance a bit. To savour the moment and enjoy vegan chocolates outside the Royal Courts of Justice – the High Court in London yesterday [Friday 13 February]. To celebrate the ruling by Judicial Review that the Home Secretary’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action as
- Strengthen the United Nations
Although the United Nations was created in 1945 with the goal of ending war and solving other global problems, in many cases the international organization has been unable to fulfill its mission. Since that time, wars have been fought, unscrupulous national leaders have done whatever they can get away with, and numerous global problems remain
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
- What a Federal Court Taught Us and What Universities Must Learn About Anti-Zionism vs. Antisemitism
Judge Richard Stearns's order does not deny that antisemitism exists or that it must be confronted. It rejects something else: the increasingly common practice of treating criticism of Israel as presumptively antisemitic—an accusation that can be leveraged to trigger investigations, discipline-and-punish processes, lawsuits and public vilification. That definitional slippage has become a tool for constricting debate about Israel’s genocide in Palestine—often under the banner of combating hate. The result is a narrowed campus conversation in which certain viewpoints are treated a priori as uniquely suspect. More The post What a Federal Court Taught Us and What Universities Must Learn About Anti-Zionism vs. Antisemitism appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Why are the Teamsters Endorsing Greg Abbott?
Abbott’s hostility to working class people and unions is not a secret. He’s fearmongered about “Big Labor,”especially public sector unions for years. Labor unions by any stretch of the imagination are not big, at all Texas is a right-to-work state. Union membership is barely 4.5% of the statewide workforce. Abbott aggressively promotes Texas as a “business-friendly” precisely because of its anti-union laws and low taxes to corporations wanting to flee states, where unions are numerically larger and more politically influential. Abbott has seized every opportunity in his long political career to weaken unions and undermine every effort to improve workers’ lives in Texas. More The post Why are the Teamsters Endorsing Greg Abbott? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- 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’ More The post The War on Drugs or the War on the Poor? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.