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Shane Burley, Waging Nonviolence. Nancy Kurshan, cofounder of the theatrical antiwar group the Yippies, discusses her new memoir. And how counterculture can revitalize our movements. Since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, an authoritarian presidency has been accompanied by a brutal crackdown on social movements. While there are strikingly new features of Trump’s reign, many of the […]

Scott Wiener and Dr. Nasser Mohamed staged a World Cup LGBTQ rights moment. But who was it for?

As someone who watches too much soccer and knows Erling Haaland as perhaps the world’s most formidable striker playing today, seeing friends and acquaintances show me viral videos of the player as an onion has been quite funny.  Despite my distaste for his club team (Manchester City is effectively owned by the United Arab Emirates, […]

Osama Al-Shafi's mental deterioration from the stresses of war culminated in him wandering in a disassociated state towards Israeli soldiers who detained him and his infant son.

Union leadership’s fealty to the Democratic Party puts it on the losing side of NYC’s historic primary elections.

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For a few weeks each summer, the Sebasticook River in Benton, Maine, is paved with flashing silver scales, so thick it seems you could almost walk across. The alewives have returned for their annual migration. On a mid-May weekend, […]