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Vanuatu's Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu, center, delivers a speech ahead of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) session tasked with issuing the first advisory opinion on states’ legal obligations to address climate change in The Hague on July 23, 2025.

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

A black-and-white photo with a mushroom-shaped explosion.

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

Niloofar Apartment in Tehran by Alidoost and Partners.

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

A close-up of a sculpture of Breonna Taylor in Union Square, New York City.

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

HELP!

HELP! HELP!

Maga broadens their horizons.

Jul 23, 2025 / OppArt / Adam Zyglis

Federal agents block people protesting an ICE immigration raid at a nearby licensed cannabis farm on July 10, 2025, near Camarillo, California.

How the Courts Blocked ICE’s Racial Profiling—Plus, How Organizers Succeed How the Courts Blocked ICE’s Racial Profiling—Plus, How Organizers Succeed

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Mark Rosenbaum on the injunction in LA, and Michael Ansara on The Hard Work of Hope.

Jul 23, 2025 / Podcast / Jon Wiener

A man carries electronic waste at Agbogbloshie dumpsite in Ghanaian capital of Accra, 2017.

Want to Understand Global Inequality? Visit the Dump. Want to Understand Global Inequality? Visit the Dump.

Alexander Clapp’s Waste Wars, a world-spanning inquiry into the politics of garbage, makes a case that everything that is wrong with capitalism is embodied in our trash.

Jul 23, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Carol Schaeffer

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) leaves the House Republican Conference caucus meeting in the US Capitol on July 22, 2025.

Republicans Would Rather Shut Down Congress Than Discuss the Epstein Files Republicans Would Rather Shut Down Congress Than Discuss the Epstein Files

The lesson for Democrats is that they should force confrontations, especially when they drive a wedge into the GOP base.

Jul 22, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

CIA chief Allen Dulles in 1958.

The CIA’s Imperial History, Part 2 The CIA’s Imperial History, Part 2

On this episode of American Prestige, the final part of our conversation with Hugh Wilford.

Jul 22, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison

Bloody Line in the Sand

Bloody Line in the Sand Bloody Line in the Sand

Netanyahu’s Gaza horror show marches on.

Jul 22, 2025 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards

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