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Demonstrators chant outside Kyiv’s Ivan Franko National Drama Theater on July 23, 2025, holding cardboard placards that read “Корупція аплодує” (“Corruption Applauds”) and “Вето на 12444” (“Veto Bill 12444”) to protest new legislation placing Ukraine’s anti‑corruption agencies under presidential control.

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

Premature babies receive care in an incubator at Al-Helou Hospital, where they are at risk due to fuel shortages, in Gaza City, on July 17, 2025.

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

Matilde “Sacha” Artes, of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, in Buenos Aires, 1985.

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

Donald Trump, center, during the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Trump hailed more than $92 billion in investments in artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure during a visit to Pennsylvania, highlighting his efforts to bolster US competitiveness in the AI field.

Decomputing for a Better Future Decomputing for a Better Future

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Dan McQuillan on the global push toward rapid AI adoption at all costs.

Jul 24, 2025 / Podcast / Paris Marx

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a roundtable discussion on soil health in the Mike Mansfield Room at the US Capitol on July 15, 2025

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

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

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Maga broadens their horizons.

Jul 23, 2025 / OppArt / Adam Zyglis

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