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Headlines for February 11, 2026; “De Facto Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront ICE, CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics; Impeach the President: Rep. Al Green Denounces Trump’s Racist Obama Video & Attacks on Black History; “Devastating”: Trump EPA to Scrap Landmark Climate Finding in Pro-Fossil Fuel Deregulatory Push

Headlines for February 10, 2026; Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence; Rep. Joaquin Castro Slams ICE “Prison” Where Children as Young as 2 Months Old Are Held; “I Have Never Felt So Much Fear”: Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX

Headlines for February 09, 2026; Meet Aliya Rahman, Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted, Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis; As Black History Month Turns 100, Trump Refuses to Apologize for Video Depicting Obamas as Apes; JD Vance Is Booed at Olympics While Thousands Protest U.S. Sending ICE Agents to Games in Italy; “The War Hasn’t Ended”: Palestinians in Gaza Still Face Israeli Attacks, Disease, Medical Neglect

Headlines for February 06, 2026; Juan González on Lasting Impact of 9/11 Toxic Exposure as NYC Faces Calls to Release Suppressed Files; “Journalism Deserves Better”: Ex-Washington Post Staffers Slam Billionaire Bezos for Gutting Paper; Can U.S. & Iran Lower Tensions? Officials Begin New Talks Amid Trump Threats of Military Strikes; Right of Return: Omar Shakir & Ken Roth Debate “Blocked” Human Rights Watch Report on Palestine

Headlines for February 05, 2026; Rep. Khanna Slams DOJ for Not Launching New Probes of Jeffrey Epstein’s “Co-Conspirators”; “Tear Down ICE” & Probe Trump-UAE $500M Crypto Deal: Rep. Ro Khanna; Shot, Harassed & Threatened: U.S. Citizens Describe Surviving Violent Attacks by Immigration Agents; Elon Musk Under Fire for Epstein Links, Grok’s Sexualized AI Deepfakes & SpaceX-xAI Merger

Headlines for February 04, 2026; “No Means No”: AZ Secretary of State Calls for Resistance as Trump Pushes to “Nationalize” Voting; Why Was Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard at FBI Election Raid in Georgia? Ex-DOJ Attorney Speaks Out; A New Nuclear Arms Race Could “Spiral” as Last U.S.-Russia Treaty Expires: Dr. Ira Helfand; “Geopolitics of the Weak”: Colombian Senator Urges “Collective Action” Against U.S. Aggression

Headlines for February 03, 2026; Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Directs Local Police to Investigate “Rogue, Reckless” ICE Agents; Philly City Council Considers “ICE Out” Legislation, as DA Krasner Decries “Wannabe Nazi” ICE Agents; Immigrant Rights Leader in Maine Says ICE Raids Caused Panic & “Wave of Fear”; ProPublica Identifies CBP Agents Who Fatally Shot ICU Nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

Headlines for February 02, 2026; “Journalism Is Not a Crime”: Georgia Fort & Don Lemon Arrested for Covering St. Paul Church Protest; “Leave Our City Now”: Minneapolis Residents March as Part of National Strike Against ICE; “Billionaire Boys Club”: What the Latest Epstein Files Reveal About Elite Impunity; FBI Raid in Georgia Is Part of “Trump’s Scheme to Try to Rig the Midterms”: Ari Berman

Headlines for January 30, 2026; “Hostile Takeovers”: As U.S. Claims Venezuela’s Oil, Trump Seeks “Vassal States” Across the World; “Cold-Blooded Murder”: Families of Trinidadian Men Killed in U.S. Boat Strike Sue Trump Admin; 350,000 Haitians in U.S. “at Risk of Losing Everything” After Trump Revokes Legal TPS Status; “Prevent the Bloodshed”: Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi on Iran Protests & U.S. Threats of Military Strikes

Headlines for January 29, 2026; “Let Us Out”: ICE Detention of Children Sparks Protests at Immigration Jail in Dilley, TX; “Not Going to Bully Me”: Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces 17 Years in Prison over ICE Jail Inspection; ICE Agents Film Minnesota Protesters & Immigrants as Part of Massive Facial Recognition Push

Headlines for January 28, 2026; ICE “Wartime” Recruiting Effort Targets Gun & Military Lovers Using White Nationalist Messaging; Rep. Ilhan Omar Attacked by Man at Minneapolis Town Hall After She Called for Noem’s Impeachment; “The Border Is the Entire Country”: How Trump Brought Borderland Violence into U.S. Cities; Abolish ICE: Rep. Delia Ramirez Calls for Defunding DHS & Defends Rep. Ilhan Omar After Attack

Headlines for January 27, 2026; “Feels Like a Cover-Up”: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Slams Trump Admin over Deadly ICE Crackdown; Can ICE Forcibly Enter Homes Without a Warrant? Inside Trump’s Attack on the 4th Amendment; From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing

Headlines for January 26, 2026; “He Was Executed”: Minneapolis Residents Outraged, Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti; RIP Alex Pretti: Colleague Remembers “Compassion,” “Deep Empathy” of ICU Nurse Killed by Feds; “Trumped-Up Charges”: Out of Jail, Nekima Levy Armstrong Faces Prosecution for Anti-ICE Church Protest; ”ICE Out”: Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike Against Immigration Raids

Headlines for January 23, 2026; “Emperor” Trump’s So-Called Board of Peace Erases Palestinians from Gaza Governance; Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After Protesting ICE Official Who Also Serves as Pastor in St. Paul; ICE Out of Minnesota: Unions & Churches Lead Economic Blackout in “Day of Truth and Freedom”; “Kings and Pawns”: Howard Bryant on What Jackie Robinson & Paul Robeson Reveal About America

Headlines for January 22, 2026; “An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order; “Catch of the Day”: Latest ICE Operation in Maine Targets Somali Community; Born in Evin Prison, Iranian Author on Protests Against “Authoritarian, Theocratic Regime”

The new film Magellan chronicles the life of Portuguese colonizer Ferdinand Magellan, the first person to circumnavigate the globe. Known for his voyage crossing the Pacific Ocean and landing on the island of Cebu, now the Philippines, the movie shows how Magellan was heralded as a hero to some, but is viewed as a murderer by many. In the film, the famed, acclaimed actor Gael García Bernal plays Magellan. We speak to the film’s director, Lav Diaz, an award-winning filmmaker and writer from the Philippines.

Headlines for January 21, 2026; Facing Possible Arrest, Minnesota Lawyer Defends Protest at Church Whose Pastor Is Top ICE Official; As Trump Threatens to Take Greenland, Oxfam Warns of Rising Authoritarianism & Billionaire Boom; NYC Nurses’ Strike Enters 10th Day; Mayor Mamdani & Sen. Sanders Join Picket Line

Headlines for January 20, 2026; ICE vs. People of Minnesota: A Special Report on Community Resistance to Trump’s Militarized Crackdown; “Not Above the Law”: Law Prof. Michele Goodwin Decries Violent ICE Activity in Minnesota; A Distraction from Epstein Files? Trump Ramps Up Chaos in Minnesota, Greenland & Beyond; “No Going Back”: Trump Escalates Threats to Take Greenland & Tariff European Allies

MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words

Part 2 of our conversation with Palestinian American director and actress Cherien Dabis about her new film, All That’s Left of You. It’s a new feature film that looks at 70 years of Palestinian history through the lens of one family’s experience over three generations. The film features the acclaimed Palestinian actor Mohammad Bakri, who died in December.

Headlines for January 16, 2026; ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report; “Autocratic Power Grab”: Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Deploy Troops to Minnesota; Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil Speaks Out as New Ruling Could Lead to His Rearrest, Deportation; “All That’s Left of You”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Traces Palestinian Family’s Love & Loss Since 1948

Headlines for January 15, 2026; FBI Raids Home of Washington Post Reporter as Attacks on Press Freedom Intensify Under Trump; “This Regime Will Fall”: Director Jafar Panahi on Deadly Iran Protests & Filmmaking Under Censorship

Headlines for January 14, 2026; “Federal Invasion”: Minnesota Officials Condemn Violent ICE Raids, Arrests; Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check; ”ICE Is OK with Renee Good’s Killing”: Journalist Ken Klippenstein on ICE Tactics & Recruitment; ICE Detention Expands Dramatically; 70,000 Immigrants Now Jailed, Deaths Increase; Supreme Court Appears Poised to Uphold State Bans on Trans Student Athletes

Headlines for January 13, 2026; “Stolen from Us”: Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter, Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent; “State of Siege”: Iran Protest Death Toll Rises to 2,000 After U.S. Sanctions Spawn Economic Crisis; “Empire in Decline”: Historian Alfred McCoy on U.S. Aggression in Venezuela, Iran & Beyond

The documentary Yanuni profiles Indigenous chief and activist Juma Xipaia, who has survived six assassination attempts while defending her people’s land from illegal gold miners and deforestation. The film is shortlisted for a 2026 Academy Award.

Watch Part 2 of our interview about All the Walls Came Down, a new short documentary by filmmaker Ondi Timoner that looks back at the devastating 2025 fires in Los Angeles, which destroyed Timoner’s home and left the historically Black community of Altadena in ruins.

Headlines for January 12, 2026; Iran Escalates Deadly Crackdown on Mass Protests as Trump Threatens to Launch Military Attack; “We Had Whistles. They Had Guns”: Nationwide Protests Held over ICE Killing of Renee Good; “All the Walls Came Down”: L.A. Fire Survivors Fight Foreclosure & Demand Justice in Altadena

Extended conversation with Liat Beinin Atzili, an Israeli American high school teacher who was held hostage in Gaza for 54 days after being seized on October 7, 2023. Her story is the focus of the new documentary Holding Liat, directed by Brandon Kramer.

Headlines for January 09, 2026; “What Are You Hiding?” Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Says ICE Killing of Renee Good Must Be Investigated; “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Shortlisted for Oscar, Uses Audio of 6-Year-Old Girl Killed in Gaza; “Holding Liat”: Former Israeli Hostage Says “There Aren’t Any Conflicts That Are Unsolvable”

Headlines for January 08, 2026; “Terror & Chaos”: Minneapolis Reels After ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Renee Good, Mother of 3; Trump Vows to “Indefinitely” Control Venezuela’s Oil as U.S. Seizes Two More Oil Tankers

Headlines for January 07, 2026; “This Is Our Hemisphere”: Report from Colombia on Trump’s Escalating Threats to the Region; Trump’s Plan to Seize Greenland Would “Militarize the Arctic,” Trample Indigenous Rights; “Firestorm”: MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff on Anniversary of L.A. Fires & “America’s New Age of Disaster”

Watch Part 2 of our interview with David Uberti, reporter for The Wall Street Journal, about President Trump’s “war on wind” farms, and backing of AI Data Centers.

Headlines for January 06, 2026; “It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”: Mehdi Hasan on Trump Attacking Venezuela & Kidnapping Maduro; “Imperial Laboratory”: Alexander Aviña on the “Donroe” Doctrine & U.S. Intervention in Latin America; Chevron Stocks Surge After Trump Vows to “Take Back” Venezuela’s Oil After U.S. Attack; Trump Family Businesses Rake in $4 Billion After His Reelection with Focus on AI, Crypto & Nuclear

Headlines for January 05, 2026; “Venezuela Is Not Going to Be a U.S. Colony”: Report from Caracas on U.S. Attack & Maduro Abduction; “Imperialist Intervention”: Law Prof. David Cole on the Illegality of U.S. Attack on Venezuela; Trump “Just Wants Oil,” Not Democracy: What’s Next in Trump’s War on Venezuela?

Amy Goodman and Juan González host breaking news coverage on U.S. forces attacking Venezuela and seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. We speak to Venezuelan reporter Andreína Chávez in Caracas, as well as professors Miguel Tinker Salas and Alejandro Velasco.

Headlines for January 02, 2026; Mamdani Takes Oath at Abandoned NYC Subway Station to Highlight Plan to Improve Public Transit; Zohran Mamdani Supporters Celebrate “Politics of Optimism” at His Inauguration; AOC, NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams & Poet Cornelius Eady: Voices from the Mamdani Inauguration; “I Will Govern as a Democratic Socialist”: Watch Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders at NYC Inauguration

“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

Headlines for December 31, 2025; U.S. Strikes Against Venezuela: Trump “Wants the Oil” as Grassroots Resist “Economic Asphyxiation”; “One More Step to Push Out Principled Humanitarian Actors”: NRC on Israel Ban on Aid Groups in Gaza; “Mayor for the Masses”: Can the Democratic Socialist Movement That Elected Mamdani Keep Its Momentum?; “The Blue Road to Trump Hell”: Norm Solomon on “How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy”

Headlines for December 30, 2025; “Whatever Israel Wants”: Trump Backs Netanyahu’s “Colonial” Wars in Gaza, Iran & Beyond; “Israel Crushed Mohammad Bakri”: Gideon Levy & Rami Khouri on Death of Iconic Palestinian Filmmaker; Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults; The Debt Collective Lays Out Other Options; Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess

Headlines for December 29, 2025; What’s Behind Trump’s Christmas Strikes on Nigeria? Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing MAGA Base?; “Witch Hunt”: Jailed U.K. Palestine Action Activists Continue Hunger Strike Despite Health Risks; Cover-Up? New HBO Film Examines 2010 Immigrant Death Under Trump’s Current Border Commissioner

Arundhati Roy on New Memoir “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” Gaza & Authoritarianism from India to U.S.; Remembering Bill Moyers: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public Broadcasting

A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz

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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