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By Targeting Artists and Journalists, Israel Is Trying to Kill the Truth

By Targeting Artists and Journalists, Israel Is Trying to Kill the Truth By Targeting Artists and Journalists, Israel Is Trying to Kill the Truth

The recent targeting of Hamdan Ballal, Hossam Shabat, and Mohammed Mansour shows that Israel sees the truth as a threat to be eliminated.

Mar 25, 2025 / Dave Zirin

Four men in suits sit in the Oval Office.

Group Chat War Plans Provide a Window Into Trump’s Mafia State Group Chat War Plans Provide a Window Into Trump’s Mafia State

American foreign policy is now all about incompetent shakedowns and cover-ups.

Mar 25, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Duped

Duped Duped

Racism in today’s America.

Mar 25, 2025 / OppArt / Barbara Brandon-Croft

Roxane Gay on What Feminism Can Do in This Moment

Roxane Gay on What Feminism Can Do in This Moment Roxane Gay on What Feminism Can Do in This Moment

An interview with the best-selling author about her latest project, The Portable Feminist Reader.

Mar 25, 2025 / Q&A / Sara Franklin

Mike Huckabee speaks with Donald Trump in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, October 29, 2024.

Democrats: Tell Mike Huckabee to Go to Hell Democrats: Tell Mike Huckabee to Go to Hell

Trump’s nominee for Israel ambassador believes that we need bloodshed in the Middle East to bring about the end times. Nobody could be a worse choice.

Mar 25, 2025 / Beth Miller

Pro-Palestinian Jewish Americans gather outside the ICE headquarters on March 20, 2025, at the emergency rally to release Palestinian green-card holder and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil and reject the Trump administration’s mass deportations.

What’s Happening at Columbia University Won’t End There What’s Happening at Columbia University Won’t End There

The actions of the Trump administration have not made our campus a safer place, and their broader McCarthyite punishment of dissent is just beginning.

Mar 25, 2025 / StudentNation / Destiny Spruill and Jordan Weinstock

Exploitation

Exploitation Exploitation

The US economy benefits from the labor of immigrants, including undocumented workers.

Mar 24, 2025 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo

George Foreman poses as he trains in 1972 in New York, New York.

The Time George Foreman Sang Me Some Dylan The Time George Foreman Sang Me Some Dylan

With the passing of the boxing legend, I want to recall an interview I never expected and will never forget

Mar 24, 2025 / Dave Zirin

Dodger Jackie Robinson stealing home in a Cubs game on May 1, 1952.

Brooklyn Dodger 1, Draft Dodger 0 Brooklyn Dodger 1, Draft Dodger 0

Donald Trump picked on the wrong athlete. Even though Jackie Robinson died in 1972, last week he bested Trump in a contest about the role of racism and the civil rights movement.

Mar 24, 2025 / Peter Dreier

Joseph Howley, an associate professor at Columbia University, speaks after a hearing for Mahmoud Khalil on March 12, 2025, in New York City. The Trump administration is seeking to deport Khalil over his participation in pro-Palestinian protests at the school.

Reading “King Lear” at Columbia in the Wake of Mahmoud Khalil’s Kidnapping Reading “King Lear” at Columbia in the Wake of Mahmoud Khalil’s Kidnapping

Trump’s war on my colleagues and students helped me understand the play’s political caution, which is not just about bad actors but those who fail to stop them.

Mar 24, 2025 / Joseph A. Howley

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