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Human Rights for Everyone

Human Rights for Everyone Human Rights for Everyone

December 10 is Human Rights Day, commemorating the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), one of the world's most groundbreaking global pledges.

Dec 10, 2024 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Donald Trump in court for his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 23, 2024, in New York City.

The Courts, Trump, and Us: A Q&A With David Cole The Courts, Trump, and Us: A Q&A With David Cole

Last time, the courts were an essential checking force on the Trump administration. This time around, they may again provide a check—if we push.

Dec 10, 2024 / Q&A / Jon Wiener

A bunch of flowers marks the spot where 40 infants who died in the Bethany mother-and-baby home were buried in unmarked graves at Mount Jerome graveyard in Dublin.

Can You Understand Ireland Through One Family’s Terrible Secret? Can You Understand Ireland Through One Family’s Terrible Secret?

In Missing Persons, Clair Wills's intimate story of institutionalized Irish women and children, shows how a family's history and a nation’s history run in parallel.

Dec 10, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Emily McBride

Palestinians, holding foreign passports, collect their luggage as they prepare to cross to Egypt from the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing.

The Underground Network Helping Gazan Refugees Survive in Egypt The Underground Network Helping Gazan Refugees Survive in Egypt

A patchwork of volunteer-run mutual aid organizations has sprung up to tackle the severe problems facing people fleeing genocide.

Dec 9, 2024 / Amba Guerguerian

The shuttered Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on March 15, 2024.

Why Bidenomics Was Such a Bust Why Bidenomics Was Such a Bust

A large majority of voters gave the Biden administration a failing grade on the economy. For the sake of future policy battles, it is worthwhile to try to understand their reasons...

Dec 9, 2024 / James K. Galbraith

The Dangers of Trump’s Foreign Policy

The Dangers of Trump’s Foreign Policy The Dangers of Trump’s Foreign Policy

Strategic incoherence and factionalism reign.

Dec 9, 2024 / Michael T. Klare

President Biden Returns To The White House After Speaking In Baltimore

President Biden Should Issue a Blanket Pardon of Undocumented Immigrants President Biden Should Issue a Blanket Pardon of Undocumented Immigrants

Protecting Trump’s enemies from prosecution just reinforces the idea of politics as retribution. Instead, Democrats should be defending his most vulnerable targets.

Dec 9, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

Shane Velez of the Bronx installs a solar electric system panel in Tory, New York, on August 7, 2015.

This Solar Panel Kills Fascists This Solar Panel Kills Fascists

New York’s Build Public Renewables Act will reduce carbon in the atmosphere, combat inequality, and help workers. It might also defeat Trumpism.

Dec 9, 2024 / Gabriel Hetland

Peter Schjeldahl’s Pleasure Principle

Peter Schjeldahl’s Pleasure Principle Peter Schjeldahl’s Pleasure Principle

His art criticism fixated on the narcissism of the entire enterprise. But over six decades, his work proved that a critic could be an artist too.

Dec 9, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Zachary Fine

Congresswoman Barbara Lee on Why Shirley Chisholm Was Right

Congresswoman Barbara Lee on Why Shirley Chisholm Was Right Congresswoman Barbara Lee on Why Shirley Chisholm Was Right

The California Democrat explains why, during her 25 years in Congress, it was important for her “to disrupt and dismantle and build something that’s equitable and just and right.”...

Dec 9, 2024 / Q&A / John Nichols

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