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Strategic Cruelty

Strategic Cruelty Strategic Cruelty

60,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, and people in Gaza continue to be subjected to the weaponization of humanitarian aid.

Aug 4, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he departs a House Republican meeting at the US Capitol on May 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. Trump joined conservative House lawmakers to help push through their budget bill after it advanced through the House Budget Committee on Sunday evening.

How the Constant Noise Distracts From the True Peril of Trump’s Misrule How the Constant Noise Distracts From the True Peril of Trump’s Misrule

His policies are making Americans less safe, less healthy, and more dead.

Aug 4, 2025 / Robert L. Borosage

Swimmers in the Rio Grande River, 2007.

The Story of America Can Be Found on the Banks of the Rio Grande The Story of America Can Be Found on the Banks of the Rio Grande

Richard Parker’s love letter to El Paso, The Crossing, argues that the Texas city can illustrate the best and the worst of the nation’s history.

Aug 4, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Kyle Paoletta

The tower at the University of Texas in April 2024 in Austin.

Texas Ended In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants. Students Are Already Feeling the Impact. Texas Ended In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants. Students Are Already Feeling the Impact.

“The message is loud and clear: You’re good enough to pick vegetables or clean hotel rooms, but not to go to college.”

Aug 4, 2025 / StudentNation / Lajward Zahra

Save the Children

Save the Children Save the Children

Backdoor.

Aug 1, 2025 / Steve Brodner

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

Let UNRWA Aid Trucks Into Gaza Let UNRWA Aid Trucks Into Gaza

The region’s most experienced aid agency could feed all of Gaza’s population for three months—if Israel would just let them do their job.

Aug 1, 2025 / Mara Kronenfeld

Voting rights protesters outside the Supreme Court Building in 2023 in advance of a gerrymandering ruling.

How the GOP Hopes to Gerrymander Its Way to a Midterms Victory How the GOP Hopes to Gerrymander Its Way to a Midterms Victory

In a series of mid-decade redistricting gambits, state legislatures are looking to rig next year's congressional balloting in advance.

Aug 1, 2025 / David Daley

Palestinians, struggling with hunger, form a line to receive hot meals in Gaza's al-Zeitoun neighborhood on July 31, 2025.

Forced Starvation Is a Grotesque Inversion of Jewish Traditions Forced Starvation Is a Grotesque Inversion of Jewish Traditions

I learned from a young age that you shouldn’t let your neighbor go hungry. Benjamin Netanyahu would do well to revisit this tradition.

Aug 1, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

A Palestinian woman carries a wooden pallet as she returns from an area in which aid trucks entered Gaza through the Zikim crossing point, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 1, 2025.

Israel Continues Starving Gaza, Thailand and Cambodia Agree to a Ceasefire, the Global Fresh Water Supply Is Dwindling Israel Continues Starving Gaza, Thailand and Cambodia Agree to a Ceasefire, the Global Fresh Water Supply Is Dwindling

Podcast / American Prestige / Aug 1, 2025 Israel Continues Starving Gaza, Thailand and Cambodia Agree to a Ceasefire, the Global Fresh Water Supply Is Dwindling Get the news…

Aug 1, 2025 / Podcast

Swamp King

Swamp King Swamp King

A billboard installed on the Fourth of July in Phoenix, Arizona.

Aug 1, 2025 / OppArt / Karen Fiorito

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