By Lauren Rankin for Truthout With a decidedly anti-choice Trump administration taking office at its start, 2025 was poised to be yet another brutal year for abortion rights. Advocates feared the imminent resurgence of the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that made it a criminal offense to share contraceptives, abortifacients, and information about either across state lines or through […]
Survivors wait as Gaza's Civil Defense works to recover the estimated 10,000 bodies that remain buried under rubble.
“We're looking at execution roughly every 16 days," said Grace Hanna of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
Project 2025 initiated a war on reproductive rights that could escalate into even higher gear in 2026.
Seb Alex is an animal rights activist, lecturer, photojournalist and author who runs the Middle East Vegan Society and has given animal rights advocacy workshops to over 1300+ activists across Europe, the Middle East and Australia. He is the author of the free e-book When Logic and Animal Rights Meet, which explains how logical fallacies are used to justify animal exploitation and how you can detect them.
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment  The Algerian newspaper al-Masa’ reports that on December 24, the Algerian parliament passed a law recognizing French colonialism in that country, 1830-1962, as having been a crime that involved mass killing, rape, displacement of populations, usurpation of land, and marginalization of people. The law also makes claims on France for […]