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FBI Director Christopher Wray

The DOJ Is Using “Foreign Agents” Accusations to Repress Black Liberation Organizers The DOJ Is Using “Foreign Agents” Accusations to Repress Black Liberation Organizers

We must demand that the FBI cease invoking the Foreign Agents Registration Act to spy on and criminalize Black social justice leaders.

Apr 25, 2023 / Collin P. Poirot and Azadeh Shahshahani

BuzzFeed Jonah Peretti

BuzzFeed’s Epic Fail Is Bad News BuzzFeed’s Epic Fail Is Bad News

The shuttering of the online publication's news division is yet more evidence of a corporate landscape dangerously hostile to the act of journalism.

Apr 25, 2023 / Maria Bustillos

Anna Badkhen in Fonguja, Kenya, 2006

The World According to Anna Badkhen The World According to Anna Badkhen

A conversation with the journalist about borders, birthplaces, reporting from conflict zones, and her recent book, Bright Unbearable Reality. 

Apr 25, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Lucas Iberico Lozada

men hold flags in Karthoum

What the World Should Know About Sudan What the World Should Know About Sudan

To understand the violence in Khartoum, you need to understand European foreign policy.

Apr 25, 2023 / Nanjala Nyabola

close-up of a frightened dog on a sofa

Private Equity Is Killing Your Pets Private Equity Is Killing Your Pets

Private equity firms have gobbled veterinary companies around the country—and the results have been disastrous.

Apr 25, 2023 / Brendan Ballou

A digital billboard reads

Don’t Let the Door Hit You in the Ass, Tucker Carlson! Don’t Let the Door Hit You in the Ass, Tucker Carlson!

The racist misogynist Fox host lost his show. It’s a great day for democracy—and women.

Apr 24, 2023 / Joan Walsh

People demonstrate in Paris, France, on March 30, 2023

The Protests in France Are About to Collide With the 2024 Paris Olympics The Protests in France Are About to Collide With the 2024 Paris Olympics

Rage over Macron’s pension raids is feeding into anti-Olympic activism. But who will benefit: the French left or the racist right?

Apr 24, 2023 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

A group of people protested in front of the British Embassy, in Paris, to demand the release of Ernest Moret, on April 18, 2023 in Paris, France. The french publisher was taken into custody when he arrived in London to attended to a book fair. (Photo by Telmo Pinto/NurPhoto via AP)

What the UK’s Arrest of a French Publisher Means for Public Intellectuals the World Over What the UK’s Arrest of a French Publisher Means for Public Intellectuals the World Over

The detention of Ernest Moret raises urgent questions about British authorities’ targeting public intellectuals at the request of other nations.

Apr 24, 2023 / Natasha Hakimi Zapata

abortion protest, Washington, DC

Democrats Should Make Abortion a Cornerstone Issue Democrats Should Make Abortion a Cornerstone Issue

As the Republican Party keeps radicalizing, Democrats need to elevate reproductive freedom.

Apr 24, 2023 / Jeet Heer

What the GOP Is Dying to Ban…

What the GOP Is Dying to Ban… What the GOP Is Dying to Ban…

But don’t mind Americans dying.

Apr 24, 2023 / OppArt / Rob Rogers

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