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Mike Johnson Says He Won’t Push Federal Abortion Ban. Advocates Don’t Buy It.

"The technical political science term for this is 'lying,'" said Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin.

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Olivia Rosane

How One Student Gaza Encampment Built a Model for Deaf Accessibility

Deaf pro-Palestine students joined their hearing peers at the now-cleared George Washington University encampment.

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Sara Luterman

The Era of Lean Production Is Coming to an End. What Does That Mean for Workers?

Climate crisis and the COVID pandemic have revealed the cracks in global supply chains. What comes next?

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Kim Moody

Unprecedented Climate-Fueled Flooding May Force a Political Reckoning in Brazil

Experts say the floods may mark an inflection point in the way Brazilians think about climate policy and adaptation.

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Zoya Teirstein

My Mother’s Letters Should Belong to Me — Not a Company That Works With Prisons

My mom has written me thousands of letters. As an incarcerated person, I don’t own any of them.

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E. Paris Whitfield

As I Nurse My Baby, I Mourn for All the Mothers in Gaza Whose Milk Is Drying Up

I am spending this day grieving for mothers in Gaza who, dehydrated and under attack, are unable to feed their children.

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Amy Tran-Calhoun

Plan to Crack Down on Unhoused People Spells Disaster for Philadelphians

The city of Philadelphia has released a 100-day Public Safety Plan with a section focused on cleaning up the “open-air drug market” in the...

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Sterling Johnson

New Doctors Are Avoiding Residencies in States With Abortion Restrictions

Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some...

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Julie Rovner

Delayed State Dept. Report Covers for Israeli Crimes​ Committed With US Arms

Foreign policy and human rights experts on Friday sharply condemned the Biden administration’s delayed report to Congress about Israeli...

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Jessica Corbett

General Strike Brings Argentina to a Halt Over Milei Austerity Program

Argentina’s primary trade union federation on Thursday held another nationwide general strike, the second called since President Javier Milei, a...

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Jessica Corbett

University Leaders Are in the Wrong. Students and Faculty Won’t Back Down.

The student encampment movement is expanding as faculty find new ways to intensify participation and solidarity. Teachers across the country are...

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Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem

No Contract, No Pirouettes — Ballet Dancers Are Organizing for Labor Rights

As they perform Swan Lake, dancers at Miami City Ballet in Florida have been facing a union-busting campaign from the company’s management. Their...

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Naomi Lachance

Report: Israeli Prisons Subject Palestinians to Constant Torture, “Revenge”

Palestinians imprisoned en masse without charges by Israeli forces are subject to constant torture, amputations due to prolonged confinement, and...

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Sharon Zhang

Missouri Axes Medicaid Funds for Planned Parenthood

On Thursday, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) signed a bill into law that effectively cuts off Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds in the...

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Zane Mcneill

Israeli Officials Vote to Expand Rafah Invasion Amid “Unspeakable” Disaster

Members of the Israeli security cabinet voted to expand Israel’s brutal invasion of Rafah on Thursday, a report finds, amid warnings that a...

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Sharon Zhang

Grieving Mothers Say Punitive New Drug Laws Won’t Solve the Overdose Crisis

Ahead of Mother’s Day, grieving moms who lost their children to drug overdose are warning that the wave of punitive anti-drug legislation sweeping...

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Mike Ludwig

Universities Have Failed Their Democratic Mission by Repressing Gaza Protests

As two U.S. philosophers, we feel compelled to bring our experience and perspective to bear on the current crisis in academia and the pressing need...

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George Yancy

Princeton Students Vow to Remain on Hunger Strike Until the University Divests

Over a dozen students at Princeton University have been on hunger strike for the past week as part of a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus...

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Amy Goodman

GOP Congressman Wants to Impeach Biden Over Blocking Israel Weapons Transfer

A freshman member of Congress has drafted articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden, alleging that Biden has abused his executive branch...

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Chris Walker

Israeli Extremists Set Fire to UNRWA’s Headquarters in East Jerusalem

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said Thursday that it was forced to shutter its headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem after a...

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Jake Johnson

Public Health Experts Raise Concerns About State of Bird Flu Testing

After public health officials confirmed H5N1, the virus also known as bird flu, jumped from poultry to cows and recently infected an American,...

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Nicole Karlis

Rubio Calls for Deportation of International Students Over Campus Protests

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio wrote a letter to the Biden administration this week demanding that international students who have taken part...

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Chris Walker

UN Conference on Plastic Pollution Crisis Dominated by Industry Reps

This story was originally published by ProPublica . ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story...

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Lisa Song

Trump Seeks $1 Billion From Big Oil, Vows to Overturn Climate Regulations

Last month, former President Donald Trump, now the presumed GOP nominee for president, met with dozens of oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago resort,...

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Chris Walker

Louisiana GOP Blocks Abortion Exception for Young Survivors of Rape and Incest

A state legislative committee in Louisiana has blocked the advancement of a bill that was designed to allow young people who are pregnant as the...

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Chris Walker

Biden Vows to Withhold Some Bombs If Israel Invades Rafah, Days Into Siege

For the first time in Israel’s genocide that has killed 35,000 Palestinians so far, President Joe Biden has threatened to withhold some military...

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Sharon Zhang

There’s Only 1 to 3 Days’ Worth of Food Left in Gaza, World Food Programme Warns

There are only a few days’ left of food in Gaza, aid groups are warning, with Israel’s total aid blockade at Gaza’s southern border over the...

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Sharon Zhang

More Than 100K Sign Petition Calling for Judge’s Removal From Trump Docs Case

A petition posted on MoveOn.org calling for the removal of federal Judge Aileen Cannon from the case relating to former President Donald Trump’s...

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Chris Walker

Modi Runs on “Hatred and Demonization” of Muslims in World’s Largest Election

Millions of voters in India are casting their ballots in the third of seven phases in the country’s mammoth general election. The election pits...

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Amy Goodman

Tennessee Law Will Force Schools to Out Trans Students to Their Parents

Due to a law recently enacted by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R), educators in the state will now be required to out transgender students to their...

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Zane Mcneill

Democrats Introduce Bill to Allow Medicaid Coverage of Doulas and Midwives

Originally published by The 19th . Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, both Democrats, are introducing...

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Darreonna Davis

Campus Protests Are Fighting Militarism and Corporatization at Home and Abroad

The long-simmering crisis over Israel’s genocide of Palestinians has reached a breaking point. Campus protests in solidarity with Gaza have...

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Henry A. Giroux

Progressives Explain Why They Did Not Join Other Dems to Save Mike Johnson

The majority of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday saved far-right Speaker Mike Johnson from Rep. Marjorie...

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Jessica Corbett

Genocide Fuels Climate Crisis. The Fate of Palestine Shapes Our Climate Future.

Seven months of Israel’s genocidal attack — with massive U.S. support — has left more than 35,000 Gazans dead with thousands more missing and...

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David Klein

Tribal Communities Face Severe Risks of Flooding Due to Climate Change

We are just beginning to see how expensive adapting to a new climate will be. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has awarded $25 million for three...

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Mark Trahant

Outside Agitators Are Good, Actually

“When people come from outside your community or your campus, it makes you feel like you’re connected to a bigger whole,” says Solidarity...

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Kelly Hayes

UN Official: Gaza Without Fuel Means Defunct Hospitals, Trash Piles, Disease

There will be no more running hospitals, water processing or sanitation services in Gaza within the next couple of days if Israel continues its...

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Sharon Zhang

First-Ever Faculty Gaza Solidarity Encampment Erected at The New School

Workers for The New School in New York City have erected the first-ever faculty solidarity encampment amid the wave of pro-Palestine protest...

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Sharon Zhang

Scientists Warn Climate Change Is to Blame for Brazil’s Worst Floods in 80 Years

Devastating floods in the south Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul have killed dozens of people and displaced thousands more over the past...

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Chris Walker

Israel Is Blocking All Aid From Gaza, Risking Shutdown of Remaining Hospitals

With its takeover of the Rafah border crossing on Gaza’s Egyptian border, Israel is now blocking all forms of aid from entering Gaza, threatening...

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Sharon Zhang

Amid Rafah Siege, Biden Officials Delay Report on Alleged Israeli War Crimes

As Israel intensifies its horrific blockade of humanitarian aid into Gaza, Biden administration officials have indefinitely delayed the release of...

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Sharon Zhang

Critics Lambaste Judge for Indefinitely Delaying Trump’s Classified Docs Trial

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing former President Donald Trump’s federal trial regarding his improper transfer of classified...

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Chris Walker

Plaintiffs in Abu Ghraib Torture Case Aim to Retry Case After Mistrial

In Virginia, a historic case against U.S. military contractor CACI brought by three Iraqi survivors of torture at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison...

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Amy Goodman

Most Democratic Voters Believe Israel Is Committing Genocide, Poll Shows

A day after U.S. President Joe Biden commemorated the Holocaust, speaking about Americans’ “obligation to learn the lessons of history” to...

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Julia Conley

Parasites, Often Miscast as Villains, Are Ecologically Critical — and Declining

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist ’s weekly newsletter here. When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect...

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Jesse Nichols

US Company Fined $649K for Illegally Hiring Children to Clean Slaughterhouses

A Tennessee-based janitorial company has been fined $649,000 after a Department of Labor (DOL) investigation found that it had employed at least 24...

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Zane Mcneill

Sense of Urgency About Climate Change Is Declining Among Youth, Poll Finds

The number of U.S. adults who say climate change is a “very serious” problem has dropped by 10 percent since 2021, according to a national...

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Mike Ludwig

Gender-Affirming Care Gave Me a Life I Love. Why Do Pundits See It as a Tragedy?

On the day I left for a much needed vacation last month, I woke up to yet another op-ed in The New York Times praising restrictions on access to...

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Chase Strangio

Advocates Worry “Forever Chemicals” Cleanup May Reinforce Environmental Racism

Originally published by Capital B . While virtually every environmental group across the nation celebrated the Biden administration’s historic...

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Adam Mahoney

As Israel Begins “Final Phase” of Genocide, Biden Slams Pro-Palestine Protests

As Israel embarked on the first steps of its long-promised invasion of Rafah, Biden delivered a chilling speech scapegoating Hamas militants and...

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Sharon Zhang

Trump Says Gag Order Jail Sentence Would Be “Sacrifice” to Protect Speech Rights

After being warned by the judge in his New York trial over continued violations of his gag order, former President Donald Trump errantly framed...

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Chris Walker

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