Gaza Starvation, ICJ Climate Ruling, Thai-Cambodian Border Clash Gaza Starvation, ICJ Climate Ruling, Thai-Cambodian Border Clash
On this episode of American Prestige, all the news you need to know this week.
Jul 25, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison
From KGB Cells to Alligator Alcatraz: How Authoritarians Normalize the Grotesque From KGB Cells to Alligator Alcatraz: How Authoritarians Normalize the Grotesque
During a recent trip to Tallinn, I visited the horrific manifestations of an unredeemable totalitarian regime. A similar system is unfolding in Trump’s America.
Jul 25, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky
His Name Was Obeida—and He Died Seeking Food for His Family His Name Was Obeida—and He Died Seeking Food for His Family
Like hundreds of Palestinians, Obeida was killed while waiting for aid distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Jul 24, 2025 / Rami Abu Jamous
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
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
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
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
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