A New Wave of Protests Confronts Zelensky’s Move to Rein in Anti‑Corruption Agencies A New Wave of Protests Confronts Zelensky’s Move to Rein in Anti‑Corruption Agencies
These are the largest since the Russian invasion of 2022—and seem poised to continue.
Jul 24, 2025 / Jared Goyette
Challenging the Silence Over Palestine in the American Historical Association Challenging the Silence Over Palestine in the American Historical Association
Institutional complicity in injustice.
Jul 24, 2025 / Van Gosse
Punished for Playing by the Rules: the Deliberate Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Regime Punished for Playing by the Rules: the Deliberate Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Regime
Migrants who show up for their court dates now routinely face arrest by ICE. But failing to appear triggers a deportation order.
Jul 24, 2025 / Eileen Markey
Desperate for Fuel in Gaza Desperate for Fuel in Gaza
An extraordinary eyewitness report reveals that food isn’t the only thing Palestinians are starved of. Fuel is almost as scarce.
Jul 24, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard
RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon
How a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health.
Jul 24, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves
The Argentine Grandmothers Who Resisted the Junta The Argentine Grandmothers Who Resisted the Junta
Haley Cohen Gilliland’s A Flower Traveled in My Blood looks at the efforts of a human rights group to find the children and grandchildren who were disappeared by a dictatorship.
Jul 24, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jacob Sugarman
How Climate Justice Reached the UN’s Top Court—and Won How Climate Justice Reached the UN’s Top Court—and Won
The International Court of Justice’s ruling that countries have a legal duty to curb climate change was the result of a yearslong campaign that began with university students.
Jul 23, 2025 / Panthea Lee
We’re Still Living With the Decisions Made During the Trinity Tests We’re Still Living With the Decisions Made During the Trinity Tests
Eighty years after the first atomic weapons tests at Los Alamos, humanity has yet to fully reckon with the power of mass annihilation.
Jul 23, 2025 / Eric Ross
Iranian Brickwork Shows Us Better Architecture Is Possible Iranian Brickwork Shows Us Better Architecture Is Possible
Why the beauty and inventiveness of contemporary masonry in Iran has captured Western audiences.
Jul 23, 2025 / Kate Wagner
Trump World Will Never Allow Justice for Breonna Taylor Trump World Will Never Allow Justice for Breonna Taylor
The sentencing of police officer Brett Hankison to 33 months in prison by a Trump-appointed judge is a travesty—even if it’s better than the DOJ’s request for one day.
Jul 23, 2025 / Elie Mystal