By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan(*) – Democracy Now! You know the United States is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic when the pace of mass shootings gets back to “normal.” As of June 2nd, there were 244 mass shootings in the U.S. this year.
By Anthony Idowu Ajayi * – The Conversation The number of girls who marry before their 15th birthday has remained unchanged for 20 years in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has the highest rate of child marriage, with nearly four in 10 girls married before age…
By Dahlia Scheindlin* – The Guardian A government led by Naftali Bennett would not be progressive, but political paralysis has only deepened the occupation As Israel inches closer to ending two years of political stalemate and 12 consecutive years of Benjamin Netanyahu’s…
By Mikhal Dekel* – Boston Review Not all research is at stake, however, only work that reveals the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews. By This year, for the first time in history, an individual used Poland’s “Holocaust Law” to sue in a civil court.
By Journalists from The Guardian* Dozens of grassroots people’s defence forces have emerged to take on brutal military Myanmar is on the verge of a new civil war, a spokesperson for the country’s parallel government has warned, as communities increasingly take up arms to…
By Maryam Jamshidi* – Boston Review The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on In an article published last winter in the Harvard International Law Journal, legal scholar Naz…
By Wen Stephenson* – The Nation A conversation with Andreas Malm about his new book, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. Andreas Malm, a historian and scholar of human ecology at Lund University in Sweden, may be the hardest-working intellectual on the…
By Steve Phillips* – The Nation From the Democrats of the Civil War era to the Republicans of the Trump years, the white party has always posed the greatest threat to our political system Alarm bells are ringing about the dangerous implications of the behavior of the Republican…
By Amy Goodman * – Democracy Now! Guest: Elizabeth Hinton, associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and professor of law at Yale Law School.
By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat * – The Washington Post The past few weeks have left us more hopeless than ever Over the past two weeks, watching the escalation of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories from my home in Florida has been horrifying and…
