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By Targeting Artists and Journalists, Israel Is Trying to Kill the Truth

By Targeting Artists and Journalists, Israel Is Trying to Kill the Truth By Targeting Artists and Journalists, Israel Is Trying to Kill the Truth

The recent targeting of Hamdan Ballal, Hossam Shabat, and Mohammed Mansour shows that Israel sees the truth as a threat to be eliminated.

Mar 25, 2025 / Dave Zirin

Four men in suits sit in the Oval Office.

Group Chat War Plans Provide a Window Into Trump’s Mafia State Group Chat War Plans Provide a Window Into Trump’s Mafia State

American foreign policy is now all about incompetent shakedowns and cover-ups.

Mar 25, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Mike Huckabee speaks with Donald Trump in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, October 29, 2024.

Democrats: Tell Mike Huckabee to Go to Hell Democrats: Tell Mike Huckabee to Go to Hell

Trump’s nominee for Israel ambassador believes that we need bloodshed in the Middle East to bring about the end times. Nobody could be a worse choice.

Mar 25, 2025 / Beth Miller

Mark Carney stands at a Liberal Party of Canada podium.

Trump’s Threat to Canada Won’t Be Defeated by Centrist Nostalgia Trump’s Threat to Canada Won’t Be Defeated by Centrist Nostalgia

You can’t fight fascism with cozy memories.

Mar 24, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Dodger Jackie Robinson stealing home in a Cubs game on May 1, 1952.

Brooklyn Dodger 1, Draft Dodger 0 Brooklyn Dodger 1, Draft Dodger 0

Donald Trump picked on the wrong athlete. Even though Jackie Robinson died in 1972, last week he bested Trump in a contest about the role of racism and the civil rights movement.

Mar 24, 2025 / Peter Dreier

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

JKF riding in a car through a parade.

JFK Assassination: The Final Secrets JFK Assassination: The Final Secrets

The release of the John F. Kennedy papers sets a standard for transparency that must also be applied to the current administration.

Mar 21, 2025 / Peter Kornbluh

A woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her house, destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on March 18, 2025.

Israel’s Renewed Assault on Gaza Is a Prelude to Mass Expulsion Israel’s Renewed Assault on Gaza Is a Prelude to Mass Expulsion

With Trump’s green light for ethnic cleansing, Israel’s return to war threatens to become an all-out effort to empty the enclave of Palestinians.

Mar 21, 2025 / Ben Reiff

Eric Schmidt, David S. Cohen, General Mark A. Milley, Alex Karp, and Andrew Ross Sorkin speak for The Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation and National Security panel during the AI Expo for National Competitiveness on May 7, 2024, in Washington, DC.

At This Point, Silicon Valley Militarists Aren’t Just Greedy—They’re Bloodthirsty At This Point, Silicon Valley Militarists Aren’t Just Greedy—They’re Bloodthirsty

By all means, let’s unite around a common purpose. But that purpose shouldn’t be a supposedly more efficient way to build killing machines.

Mar 21, 2025 / William D. Hartung

University of Austin founder Bari Weiss interviews Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz at a DC inauguration-weekend event cohosted by Weiss's publication The Free Press.

How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule

Bari Weiss's University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary's speech-suppressing regime

Mar 20, 2025 / Jacqueline Sweet

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