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Headlines for December 24, 2025; “Heartbreaking”: Journalist Vicky Ward on New Epstein Files & Survivors’ Fight for Accountability; “Never Stop”: Freed After 9 Months in ICE Jail, Immigrant Activist Jeanette Vizguerra Keeps Fighting; Free Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Woman Who Joined Columbia U. Protest Has Been Detained Since March

Part 2 of our conversation with Jasper Nathaniel, the New York–based writer and reporter who covers Israel’s occupation of the West Bank on his Substack, Infinite Jaz. Nathaniel helped bring national attention to the case of Mohammed Ibrahim, the Palestinian American teenager who was released in late November after more than nine months in an Israeli military prison.

Headlines for December 23, 2025; CBS Censorship: Bari Weiss Pulls “60 Minutes” Exposé on Torture of Migrants U.S. Sent to El Salvador; “Out for Blood”: Writer Jasper Nathaniel on Surviving Israeli Settler Attack on W. Bank Olive Farmers

Headlines for December 22, 2025; “Who Are They Protecting?”: Rep. Ro Khanna Urges Contempt Charges over AG Bondi’s Epstein Redactions; Rep. Ro Khanna on Venezuela Strikes, Zohran Mamdani, Trump-Kennedy Center & More; Israel Approves 19 New West Bank Settlements as State-Sponsored Violence Escalates; “Destroying Knowledge”: Michael Mann on Trump’s Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado

Headlines for December 19, 2025; Doctors in Jail? Hospitals Stripped of Fed Funding? The Criminalization of Trans Youth Healthcare; Kilmar Ábrego García Reunites with Family, But Trump Admin Threatens to Jail & Deport Him Again; “Terror & Fear”: Trump Moves to Denaturalize Citizens, End Birthright Citizenship, Halt Visa Lottery

Headlines for December 18, 2025; “Divorced from Reality”: Economist Dean Baker Fact-Checks Trump’s Primetime Speech; Meet Tania Nemer, Fired Immigration Judge Suing Trump Admin Amid Purge of Immigration Court System; “No Military Solution”: Is Peace Possible in Sudan as “Proxy War” Expands?

The longtime peace activist Cora Weiss died December 8 at the age of 91, after decades of advocacy demanding civil rights, nuclear disarmament, gender equality and the abolition of war.

Headlines for December 17, 2025; A Path to WWIII? Greg Grandin on Venezuela, Trump’s “Madman Doctrine” & More; Chile’s Trump? Ariel Dorfman on the Election of Pinochet Admirer José Antonio Kast; How Did Epstein Get Rich? The New York Times Investigates His “Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons”

Headlines for December 16, 2025; “We’re Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence; Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age”; From “Alligator Alcatraz” to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump

Headlines for December 15, 2025; Antony Loewenstein on the Hanukkah Massacre in Sydney & the Muslim Food Vendor Who Saved Lives; Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi Arrested Again in Iran; Meet Mia Tretta: Shot 6 Years Ago, Brown Student Speaks Out After Surviving 2nd School Shooting

Headlines for December 12, 2025; From COVID to Hepatitis to Measles, RFK Jr. Is Gutting Vaccine Science: An Ex-CDC Expert Speaks Out; “Watched, Tracked & Targeted”: Gaza Writer Mohammed Mhawish on Life Under Israeli Surveillance; Trump Gold/Platinum Card: Amid Immigrant Crackdown, U.S. Sells Visas for Up to $5 Million; “A Force of Terror”: Rep. Delia Ramirez on ICE Abuses & Her Push to Impeach DHS Chief Kristi Noem

Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began days after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955.

Headlines for December 11, 2025; Is War Next? U.S. Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker as Anti-Maduro Campaign Escalates; “Slow Poison”: Scholar Mahmood Mamdani on New Book About Uganda, Decolonization & More; “My Advice to Parents Is Learn from Your Kids”: Mahmood Mamdani on Raising Zohran, NYC’s Next Mayor; “Slower Form of Death”: Despite Ceasefire, Israel Keeps Killing in Gaza as Winter Storm Floods Tents

Headlines for December 10, 2025; Will the International Community Act? Preschool Massacre & “Large Piles of Bodies” in Sudan; “Torture & Enforced Disappearances” at Florida’s ICE Jails “Alligator Alcatraz” & Krome; Trump Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew’s Mother Released from ICE Jail, Faces Deportation; Despite Judge’s Order, ICE Deports Shackled Babson College Freshman, Harasses Her Family in Texas; What Activists Can Learn from Rosa Parks on the 70th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott

Headlines for December 09, 2025; “Merger Madness”: Trump at Center of Rival Netflix-Paramount Bids for Warner Bros.; “Honor Our History”: Trump Slammed for Ending Free National Park Entry on Juneteenth & MLK Day; Save Mumia’s Eyesight: Supporters March to Prison to Demand Medical Care for Him & Aging Prisoners

Watch Part 2 of our interview with former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck about her new book, The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late.

Headlines for December 08, 2025; “Murder on the High Seas”: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Trump’s Boat Strikes; “I Was Pepper-Sprayed”: Rep. Adelita Grijalva on ICE Raid, Epstein Files, Rising Health Costs & More; “Domestic Terrorism”: Leaked DOJ Memo Targets “Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity”; “The Problem with Plastic”: Former EPA Official on How to Save the Planet Before It’s Too Late

Headlines for December 05, 2025; Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage; 5,000 Arrests? ICE Descends on Louisiana to Carry Out Raids in World’s “Incarceration Capital”; Trump Calls Somali Community “Garbage”: Minnesota Responds to Racist Rant and Immigration Sweeps; “Alejandro Was Murdered”: Colombian Fisherman’s Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike

Headlines for December 04, 2025; Will Hegseth Go? Defense Secretary Faces Anger from Congress over Boat Strikes, Signal Chat; Can a Deal Be Reached to End Russia’s War in Ukraine? Matt Duss on Latest Diplomatic Efforts; “Making America White Again”: Trump Further Restricts Immigration, Ramps Up ICE Raids; West African Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC Volunteer-Run Kitchen

Headlines for December 03, 2025; U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank: Sari Bashi; Ralph Nader on Trump’s “Entrenching Dictatorship,” Reclaiming Congress, and the Fight Against Big Money; ”WTO/99” Filmmaker on Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement: “These Issues Haven’t Gone Away”

Headlines for December 02, 2025; “A War Crime & Murder”: David Cole on U.S. Killing of Survivors of Boat Strike in Caribbean; “This Is a Union Town”: Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders Join Striking Starbucks Workers’ Picket; Trump’s Cuts to AIDS Prevention Are Devastating LGBTQ+ Communities Globally: Steven Thrasher

Headlines for December 01, 2025; Trump Meddles in Honduran Election & Vows to Pardon Ex-President Jailed in U.S. for Drug Trafficking; “Kill Everybody”: Could Hegseth Face War Crimes Probe for Killing Survivors of U.S. Boat Strike?; Trump Vows to Pause Migration from “Third World Countries” After Fatal National Guard Shooting; “Imperial Blowback”: Suspect in D.C. Shooting Was Part of CIA Death Squad in Afghanistan

The Historic Rise of Zohran Mamdani: Democracy Now! Coverage from 2021 Hunger Strike to Election Night

“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home; My Father Is a Warrior & My Hero: An Interview with Leonard Peltier’s Daughter Marquetta

Headlines for November 26, 2025; “From Apartheid to Democracy”: Sarah Leah Whitson on New Book, Israel, Gaza & Trump-MBS Meeting; Mamdani’s Affordability Agenda: Incoming NYC Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan on How to Make It Happen; “Policy Violence”: ICE Raids & Shredding of Social Safety Net Are Linked, Says Bishop William Barber

Headlines for November 25, 2025; “The Epstein Class”: Anand Giridharadas on the Elite Network Around the Sexual Predator; Will the U.S. Attack Venezuela? Trump’s Anti-Maduro Campaign Seen as Part of a Broader Regional Plan; Assassinated Amazonian Rubber Tapper Chico Mendes Tried to Save the Rainforest. Meet His Daughter

Full interview with Alessandra Korap Munduruku, who led an Indigenous protest outside the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil.

Headlines for November 24, 2025; From Affordability to Genocide, Trump-Mamdani Meeting at White House Was Full of Surprises; Climate Deal Excludes Fossil Fuel Phaseout as Wealthy Nations Place Burden “On the Backs of the Poor”

Headlines for November 21, 2025; No Fossil Fuel Phaseout, No Deal! At COP30, Vanuatu Climate Minister Joins 30+ Dissenting Nations; “We Need to Be Heard”: Indigenous Amazon Defender Alessandra Korap Munduruku on COP30 Protest; “Inviting the Arsonists”: Indian Climate Activist Slams Fossil Fuel Lobbyists at U.N. Climate Summit

Headlines for November 20, 2025; Climate Crisis Displaces 250 Million Over a Decade While U.S. & Other Polluting Nations Close Borders; Brazilian Indigenous Minister Sônia Guajajara on Fossil Fuel Phaseout, Bolsonaro’s Conviction & More; The Race to Save the Amazon: Top Brazilian Scientist Says Rainforest Is at “Tipping Point”

Headlines for November 19, 2025; “Bring the Truth Out of the Shadows”: Survivors Hail Congressional Vote to Release Epstein Files; Susana Muhamad, Ex-Colombian Environment Minister, on COP30 Talks, Trump, Gaza & More; Sudanese Researcher Lina Yassin on COP30 Climate Talks, UAE-Funded Proxy War in Sudan over Gold & More; “Data Crunch”: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals

Headlines for November 18, 2025; Brazil’s Contradictory Climate Policies: Lula Gov’t Reduces Deforestation, Boosts Oil & Gas Production; Indigenous Leaders Converge in Belém, Brazil, Demanding Greater Role at U.N. Climate Talks; Kumi Naidoo on U.S. Skipping COP30, Why Rich Nations Must Pay a Climate Debt, Gaza, Sudan & More

Headlines for November 17, 2025; Report from COP30: Thousands March in Indigenous-Led Protest at Brazil Climate Talks “in Defense of Life”; Protect the Amazon, Tax the Polluters: Climate Activists Demand Action at COP30 in Belém, Brazil; “Just Transition”: Polluting Countries Must Take Responsibility for Extreme Climate Change

Headlines for November 14, 2025; “Gunboat Diplomacy”: U.S. War in Latin America Feared as Hegseth Launches “Operation Southern Spear”; “You Have Arrived in Hell”: Venezuelans Sent by U.S. to El Salvador Faced Torture, Sexual Abuse; “The Trillion Dollar War Machine”: William Hartung on How U.S. Military Spending Fuels Wars; How Mamdani Won: Field Director Tascha Van Auken on Grassroots Organizing Behind Historic Victory

Headlines for November 13, 2025; Trump “Knew About the Girls”: Calls Grow for Full Epstein Files After Release of Emails; Rep. Adelita Grijalva Speaks Out on Epstein Files & More After Being Sworn In 7 Weeks Late; Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID

Headlines for November 12, 2025; “Caved Too Soon”: Ro Khanna on Senate Shutdown Deal, Why Schumer Should Step Down & Epstein Files; “Food Is a Fundamental Human Right”: U.S. Hunger Expert Decries Trump Withholding Food Assistance; Epstein & Israel: Drop Site News Investigates Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence; “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”: New Film on Gaza Photojournalist Killed in Israeli Strike

Headlines for November 11, 2025; Calls for Schumer to Step Down Grow as Democrats Cave on Healthcare & Help GOP Pass Funding Bill; Chicago Parents Denounce ICE for Violently Detaining Beloved Daycare Teacher in Front of Toddlers; “Free Joan Little”: New Film on Landmark 1975 Murder Acquittal of Woman Sexually Assaulted by Prison Guard

Watch Part 2 of our interview with acclaimed journalist Jelani Cobb, dean of the Columbia Journalism School, about his new collection of essays, Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here.

Headlines for November 10, 2025; U.N. Climate Summit Opens in Brazil as the Philippines Is Hit by Back-to-Back Deadly Typhoons; Exposed: 5,000+ Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Got Access to U.N. Climate Talks & Helped Block Climate Action; How We Got Here: Jelani Cobb on Rise of Trump & White Nationalism After Push for Racial Justice

Headlines for November 07, 2025; “The Fight Is Not Over”: LGBTQ Advocates Challenge Supreme Court’s Anti-Trans Passport Ruling; “Without Precedent”: Lisa Graves on the Supreme Court, Tariffs, Voting Rights & Legacy of John Roberts; Is the U.S. Planning to Assassinate Maduro? Peter Kornbluh on “Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy”; Remembering Peter Weiss: Legendary Human Rights Lawyer Dies at 99

Part 2 of our conversation with Tareq Baconi, author of the new memoir, Fire in Every Direction.

Headlines for November 06, 2025; “My Community Is Under Invasion from Our Own Federal Gov’t”: Evanston Mayor Decries ICE Raids in Illinois; “Taken: The Agents Raiding Communities and the People Trying to Stop Them”: Maria Hinojosa; “Fire in Every Direction”: Palestinian Author Tareq Baconi on Gaza, Zionism & Embracing Queerness

Headlines for November 05, 2025; Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins Historic NYC Mayoral Race: “The Future Is in Our Hands”; The Movement Behind Mamdani: Organizers & Supporters Celebrate Stunning Victory & Repudiation of Trump; This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory; “Epic Night for Democrats”: Party Wins Races Across the U.S. in Voter Rebuke to Trump

Headlines for November 04, 2025; From Mamdani to Prop 50, John Nichols on Election Day Races & the Future of Democratic Party; “The Dark Side”: Dick Cheney’s Legacy from Iraq Invasion to U.S. Torture Program; “Injustice”: How Biden’s DOJ Failed to Hold Trump Accountable for Jan. 6, Corruption & More

Headlines for November 03, 2025; “Denying People the Right to Food”: Millions Could Go Hungry as Trump Admin Holds Up SNAP Benefits; Trump Throws “Great Gatsby” Party at Mar-a-Lago as Food Stamps End for Millions; “Our Time Is Now”: Zohran Mamdani’s Mayoral Campaign Inspires NYC’s Working-Class South Asians; Trump Threatens to Go “Guns-a-Blazing” into Nigeria over “Killing of Christians”; Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Denial of His U.S. Visa & Trump’s Threat to Strike Nigeria

Headlines for October 31, 2025; Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids “Coming to Other Cities” as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails; Did U.S. Cover Up Shireen Abu Akleh Killing? Whistleblower Says Report Was Watered Down for Israel; “Mamdani of the Midwest”: Meet Omar Fateh. Could He Be the Next Mayor of Minneapolis?

Headlines for October 30, 2025; “Extraordinarily Destabilizing Decision”: Trump Denounced over Call to Immediately Resume Nuclear Tests; U.S., China Reach Trade Truce as Trump & Xi Meet for First Time in Years; Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital; U.N. Votes Overwhelmingly to Denounce U.S. Embargo on Cuba as Hurricane Melissa Batters Island

Headlines for October 29, 2025; “Groundhog Day”: Israel Breaks Ceasefire to Attack Gaza, Killing 104 People, Including 46 Children; Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Firms: Mikaela Loach, Jamaican British Climate Activist; Federal Agent Pointed Gun at My Head: Illinois Lawmaker Hoan Huynh Denounces ICE Raids in Chicago; “Coexistence, My Ass!”: Israeli Comic Noam Shuster Eliassi Uses Humor to Oppose Occupation & Genocide

Headlines for October 28, 2025; Calls Grow for Humanitarian Ceasefire in Sudan as RSF Forces Seize Key City of El Fasher in Darfur; 42 Million to Lose Food Assistance as Trump Refuses to Tap Emergency SNAP Funds; Millions Face Soaring Health Insurance Premiums as GOP Refuses to Extend Obamacare Subsidies; Master Plan: David Sirota on Trump & the Decadeslong “Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”

Headlines for October 27, 2025; “Rubio’s Ideological Project”: What’s Driving Trump’s Campaign Against Venezuela?; Jeremy Scahill on Gaza “Ceasefire,” Talking to Hamas & Israel’s Doctrine of Dehumanizing Palestinians; NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Rallies with Bernie Sanders & AOC, Confronts Islamophobic Attacks

Headlines for October 24, 2025; As Israel Pushes to Annex West Bank, Norwegian Refugee Council Condemns Growing Settler Violence; Cracks Grow in MAGA Coalition over Epstein Files, Healthcare & Racist Group Texts: Ex-GOP Adviser; “Criminal Justice Is Criminal”: New Film Is “Musical Indictment” of Cash Bail & Deadly Houston Jail

Headlines for October 23, 2025; International Court of Justice: As Occupying Power, Israel Must Allow U.N. Aid into Gaza; Ex-U.S. Diplomat Robert Malley on Gaza Ceasefire & U.S. Double Standards on Israel; “Fascism or Genocide” Author Ross Barkan on NYC Mayoral Race, Mamdani’s Rise, Socialism & More

Headlines for October 22, 2025; “Nobody’s Girl”: Virginia Giuffre’s Memoir Details Sex Abuse by Epstein, Maxwell, Prince Andrew; Colombia’s U.S. Ambassador Denounces Trump’s Deadly Strikes on Boats in the Caribbean; Tensions in Latin America Rise as U.S. Threatens Venezuela & Colombia

Headlines for October 21, 2025; “We Are Under Attack”: Rep. Delia Ramirez on Immigration Crackdown in Chicago, Gov’t Shutdown & More; Shadow President: Project 2025 Architect Russell Vought Is Using Shutdown to Gut Federal Agencies; “Armed Only with a Camera”: HBO Film on Life & Death of Brent Renaud, Journalist Killed in Ukraine

Headlines for October 20, 2025; “The War Has Not Really Ended”: Gaza Reporter on Israeli Attacks & Reuniting with Imprisoned Brother; The Forgotten Captives: Israel Still Imprisoning 9,000 Palestinians Even After Hostage Deal; No to Authoritarianism: 7 Million Rally Across U.S. in Historic No Kings Day Protests; “This Is Ethnic Cleansing”: Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta Decries Trump’s Targeting of Immigrants

Headlines for October 17, 2025; “Israeli Sadism in a Nutshell”: Amira Hass on Israeli Prisons, Settler Violence & Gaza Ceasefire; “Cold-Blooded Murder”: David Cole on Trump’s Boat Attacks & CIA Covert Action in Venezuela; “No Kings. No Thrones. No Crowns.”: Millions to Protest Saturday in 1000s of Cities, Towns Nationwide

Headlines for October 16, 2025; Report from Gaza: Despite Ceasefire, Humanitarian Crisis Continues as Israel Severely Restricts Aid; “Taken Hostage by the Israeli Military”: Freed Palestinian Prisoners Describe Widespread Torture; Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina’s President Milei While Firing Thousands of Workers in U.S.?; Will Supreme Court Gut Voting Rights Act & Weaken Electoral Power of Black Americans?; Walkout: Top U.S. Media, Including Conservative Outlets, Reject New Pentagon Press Restrictions

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