Global Justice Movement

A Yemeni walks over the debris of a destroyed building after it was struck by US air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, March 24, 2025.

Bombing Yemen: Signalgate Deserves to Be a Major Scandal Bombing Yemen: Signalgate Deserves to Be a Major Scandal

But the assault on Yemeni civilians the hapless conspirators discussed in their private chat group is an even bigger disgrace—though so far the press haven’t paid much attention.

Mar 27, 2025 / Phyllis Bennis

Despite the massive mobilization of Bernie Sanders’s two presidential campaigns, his supporters remain a junior partner in the Democratic Party power structure.

Time for a Progressive Rethink Time for a Progressive Rethink

Anger at the Democratic Party’s inept leadership and subservience to Big Money has been rising since the election. But the left also must examine our own role in enabling Trump.

Mar 24, 2025 / Jeff Faux

Mario Savio, a leader of the University of California Free Speech Movement, center, with Jack Weinberg and Susan Goldberg and other arrested demonstrators during their trial, Berkeley, California, 1965.

America Needs a New Free Speech Movement America Needs a New Free Speech Movement

Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.

Mar 19, 2025 / Zephyr Teachout

When They Came for Columbia University

When They Came for Columbia University When They Came for Columbia University

The university has become the Trump administration’s test case for the largest assault on higher education since the McCarthy era. Sadly, it has notably failed to defend itself.

Mar 19, 2025 / Column / David Klion

During a protest against US policies regarding Israel and Palestine outside the American Institute in Taiwan in Taipei on March 7, 2024, demonstrators from the Taiwan Action Front for Palestine display portraits of Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty member of the US Air Force who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC.

What Aaron Bushnell Is Still Teaching Us What Aaron Bushnell Is Still Teaching Us

His protest was both a rejection of the idea that human life is expendable and an acknowledgment that, for so many, it already has been.

Mar 19, 2025 / Riad Alarian

Sherrod Brown: Three decades of talking about the dignity of work wasn’t enough to save him.

How the American Left Became Conservative How the American Left Became Conservative

Against the radical, if reactionary, experiment run from the White House, everyone from Democratic leaders in Congress to MSNBC hosts have turned to the defense of institutions.

Mar 18, 2025 / Michael Kazin

South African farmer Tewie Wessels addresses a group of white South Africans supporting US President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk during a demonstration in Pretoria, on February 15, 2025.

Why Trump Is Threatened by South Africa Why Trump Is Threatened by South Africa

The country’s Constitution gives its citizens more than a right to the pursuit of happiness. But attempts to redeem that commitment to justice have enraged American reactionaries....

Mar 14, 2025 / Susan Neiman

Supporters of Mahmoud Khalil rally at Foley Square in Manhattan on March 12, 2025.

Columbia Is Betraying Its Students. We Must Change Course. Columbia Is Betraying Its Students. We Must Change Course.

The administration is choosing complicity over courage in the case of Mahmoud Khalil. It’s time for the faculty to demand a new path.

Mar 13, 2025 / Bruce Robbins

Mahmoud Khalil, a student negotiator during the protests at Columbia University against the Gaza genocide, speaks to the press on April 29, 2024.

Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

The detention and attempted deportation of Khalil is a test by Trump to see how far he can go—and a test for us to see how hard we will fight back.

Mar 11, 2025 / Laura Jedeed

Will Scholars Take a Stand Against Scholasticide in Gaza?

Will Scholars Take a Stand Against Scholasticide in Gaza? Will Scholars Take a Stand Against Scholasticide in Gaza?

The fight inside the historical profession heats up.

Mar 6, 2025 / Van Gosse

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