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Hend’s family during their olive harvest season in 2024. Photo courtesy of Hend Salama Abo Helow

Israel Wants to Destroy My Family's Way of Life. We'll Never Give In. Israel Wants to Destroy My Family's Way of Life. We'll Never Give In.

My family's olive trees have stood in Gaza for decades. Despite genocide, drought, pollution, toxic mines, uprooting, bulldozing, and burning, they're still here—and so are we.

Dec 11, 2025 / Hend Salama Abo Helow

Trump Foreign Policy

Trump’s National Security Strategy and the Big Con Trump’s National Security Strategy and the Big Con

Sense, nonsense, and lunacy.

Dec 10, 2025 / Robert L. Borosage

Sunset over Christ the Saviour cathedral in Moscow

Does Russian Feminism Have a Future? Does Russian Feminism Have a Future?

A Russian feminist reflects on Julia Ioffe’s history of modern Russia.

Dec 10, 2025 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina

Destruction of Our Heart

Destruction of Our Heart Destruction of Our Heart

From Gaza to Somalia, around the world people are struggling to survive.

Dec 9, 2025 / OppArt / Anonymous and Peter Kuper

Oleksandr Ibrahimov, 56, a security guard working for 35 years at the House of Trade Unions, finds a sunflower growing amidst wreckage.

Ukraine’s War on Its Unions Ukraine’s War on Its Unions

Since the start of the war, the Ukrainian government has been cracking down harder on unions and workers’ rights. But slowly, the public mood is shifting.

Dec 9, 2025 / David Zauner

All That Glitters Is Not Gold

All That Glitters Is Not Gold All That Glitters Is Not Gold

Trump’s “Gilded Age” of suffering for we the people.

Dec 8, 2025 / OppArt / Sally Edelstein

My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor

My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor

The original doll was not made by Mattel but by a business that perfected its practice making plaster casts of Hitler.

Dec 6, 2025 / Tarpley Hitt

 “I Am a Citizen”

 “I Am a Citizen”  “I Am a Citizen”

We are all Americans.

Dec 5, 2025 / Steve Brodner

Look Up!

Look Up! Look Up!

Our addiction to cell phones is distracting from the world around us.

Dec 5, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

People participate in the Queer Liberation March in New York City on June 29, 2025.

Why Palestine Matters So Much to Queer People Why Palestine Matters So Much to Queer People

Palestinian identity can “upend the whole world order, if done right, if spun right, if we activate it enough. And I think queerness is a very similar kind of identity.”

Dec 5, 2025 / Jad Salfiti

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