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What Could Replace Jimmy Kimmel?

What Could Replace Jimmy Kimmel? What Could Replace Jimmy Kimmel?

Best guess?

Oct 2, 2025 / OppArt / Jesse Duquette

Supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro take part in a protest against the reward imposed by the US president, in Caracas on August 11, 2025.

Why Trump’s Venezuela Attacks Matter So Much Why Trump’s Venezuela Attacks Matter So Much

They signal a US empire increasingly willing to dispense with even the perfunctory legal legitimation that past presidents leaned on.

Oct 2, 2025 / Jake Romm

Tony Blair takes part in a panel at Truman Brewery during SXSW London 2025 on June 2, 2025.

Keep Tony Blair’s Blood-Soaked Hands Away From Gaza at All Costs Keep Tony Blair’s Blood-Soaked Hands Away From Gaza at All Costs

He needs to be in The Hague, not in charge of the future of Palestine.

Oct 2, 2025 / Hamza Yusuf

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at a podium gesticulating in front of a large American flag.

Hegseth’s Quantico Farce: Terrifying, or Oddly Reassuring? Hegseth’s Quantico Farce: Terrifying, or Oddly Reassuring?

Trump and the defense secretary summoned top military leaders to the side of authoritarianism and abuse, but the officers did not thrill to the message.

Oct 1, 2025 / Joan Walsh

President Barack Obama addresses a Joint Session of Congress concerning healthcare.

The Government Shutdown Is Based on a 16-Year-Old Lie The Government Shutdown Is Based on a 16-Year-Old Lie

In 2009, Republicans falsely claimed that the Affordable Care Act would benefit undocumented immigrants. They’re still peddling the same bullshit.

Oct 1, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, DC, on September 30, 2025.

The Moral Hollowing Out of the United States The Moral Hollowing Out of the United States

On the brink of a potentially devastating government shutdown, Trump spent his day with Pete Hegseth haranguing generals at a summit that should’ve been an e-mail.

Oct 1, 2025 / Column / Sasha Abramsky

Marching in NYC

Marching in NYC Marching in NYC

Protests across the country and around the world.

Oct 1, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

A stock photo of caution tape reading “Police Line Do Not Cross” across a suburban road.

Suicide or Lynching? Mississippi Officials Insist Trey Reed’s Death Is Nothing Suspicious. Suicide or Lynching? Mississippi Officials Insist Trey Reed’s Death Is Nothing Suspicious.

His family says he left for college happy and healthy. Soon after, he was found hanging from a tree on campus. Yet local officials are refusing calls to investigate further.

Oct 1, 2025 / Kali Holloway

Palestinians search their belongings among the rubble of buildings destroyed by an Israeli attack on Abu Hasira street in Gaza City, Gaza, on September 30, 2025.

In Gaza, We Are Literally Losing Our Ability to Speak In Gaza, We Are Literally Losing Our Ability to Speak

The human mind, faced with relentless pain, erects invisible barricades. Here, amid genocide, one of them is the ability to express our trauma out loud.

Oct 1, 2025 / Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

Protesters against the Gaza genocide march away from the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, last month after the company called police to disburse them.

How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military

A grassroots campaign successfully pressured the tech monopoly to take an unprecedented step toward suspending its complicity in the Gaza genocide.

Oct 1, 2025 / Maximillian Alvarez

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