A Visit to Belmarsh Prison, Where Julian Assange Awaits His Final Appeal Against Extradition to the US A Visit to Belmarsh Prison, Where Julian Assange Awaits His Final Appeal Against Extradition to the US
The Wikileaks founder says he fears his own imprisonment, US government surveillance, and restrictions on the group’s funding have effectively scared off potential whistleblowers....
Jan 2, 2024 / Charles Glass
The Street and the Elite Can Unite to End Israel’s Criminal War The Street and the Elite Can Unite to End Israel’s Criminal War
Both realists and idealists realize that Biden’s carte blanche policy of support for Netanyahu is hurting America.
Dec 22, 2023 / Jeet Heer
A Measure of Justice at Last for Victor Jara A Measure of Justice at Last for Victor Jara
On December 1—just two days after the death of Henry Kissinger renewed international attention to the US role in the 1973 coup in Chile against the democratically elected governmen…
Dec 21, 2023 / Peter Kornbluh
The Progressive Refugee Policy That Puts the West to Shame The Progressive Refugee Policy That Puts the West to Shame
Uganda’s role as a co-convenor of the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva this week should raise urgent questions about the interests behind its much-lauded open-door refugee policy.
Dec 12, 2023 / Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Biden Should Abolish Secretive Corporate Tribunals that Bypass the Law Biden Should Abolish Secretive Corporate Tribunals that Bypass the Law
A legal regime known as investor-state dispute settlements erode environmental regulation and increase fossil fuel industry profits.
Dec 12, 2023 / Molly Taft
Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas
The Israeli prime minister followed a decades-old divide-and-rule strategy that fuels endless war.
Dec 11, 2023 / Jeet Heer
On the 75th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights On the 75th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights
How Eleanor Roosevelt's leadership made her the “First Lady of the World.”
Dec 8, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Biden Is Overseeing the Silent Death of the First Amendment Biden Is Overseeing the Silent Death of the First Amendment
By continuing the persecution of Julian Assange, the US government is signaling how little it cares about press freedom.
Dec 8, 2023 / Yanis Varoufakis, Lina Attalah, and John Kiriakou
“Let’s Wait Till Israel Says Something”: Why the Media Has Failed the Test of the War in Gaza “Let’s Wait Till Israel Says Something”: Why the Media Has Failed the Test of the War in Gaza
A dispatch from the front lines of the information war.
Dec 5, 2023 / Razia Iqbal
Biden’s Bear Hug of Netanyahu Is a Disaster Biden’s Bear Hug of Netanyahu Is a Disaster
The renewed fighting between Israel and Hamas shows the incoherence of mixing humanitarian words and bigger bombs.
Dec 4, 2023 / Jeet Heer