Should historians now and in the future need to identify a moment illustrating President Donald Trump’s unabashed attempts to politicize the Justice Department, they could easily look to the events of the past few days. Let’s start with Trump publicly calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to use the powers of the department to go […]
The endorsement of the Block the Bombs Act by one of the largest caucuses in Congress gives a significant boost to efforts to hold Israel accountable for its genocidal war in Gaza.
NFL star and noted activist Colin Kaepernick is paying for an independent second autopsy for a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree. Demartravion “Trey” Reed, 21, was a student at Delta State University whose body was found on campus a week ago. The state’s medical examiner ruled it a suicide, but […]
Silencing protesters. Getting Jimmy Kimmel taken off air. Ordering Mahmoud Khalil's deportation. Another week of Zeteo's project to document the growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.
The Republican party apparently thinks that making fun of people’s deaths is absolutely abhorrent, unless the people dying are your perceived political enemies. Over the past two weeks, the Trump administration has deployed two lethal, and highly contested military strikes on boats in international waters, claiming that the passengers were members of Tren de Aragua […]
When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes and came to a shocking conclusion: In one month, the ER physician had treated at least 18 children with gunshots to the head or chest. And that’s only the patients she had […]
From The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today, Counterpoint Press. The prosecutor at the Treblinka trials, Alfred Spiess, described his defendants to filmmaker Claude Lanzmann this way: “They weren’t SS men; they came from the euthanasia project, became accustomed to killing, were kept together during the winter of the […]
Mehdi and Owen discuss the Tommy Robinson far-right rally in London, the crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters by the unpopular Starmer government, and Owen's recent visit to the occupied West Bank.