Democrat Candidates Election 2020
Children Are Starving in Gaza, as Soldiers Kill People Looking for Food
A child receives treatment for malnutrition at the Patient Friends Benevolent Society hospital in Gaza City on May 29, 2025. Photo: Huda Skaik In Gaza’s clinics and overwhelmed hospitals, doctors and nutritionists face a haunting, daily reality: children wasting away before their eyes, unable to stand and play, who can hardly breathe. Israeli troops are…
Read MoreGoing Out to a Protest? Here’s How Not to Get Arrested.
What are your rights at a protest? If you’re going out to protest the Trump administration’s deportation regime, Israel’s genocide in Gaza, or any other affront to justice, you should know your rights. We asked an attorney who has litigated First Amendment cases, Isabella Salomão Nascimento, for a rundown. She is an associate attorney in…
Read MoreLAPD Won’t Do Immigration Enforcement — But Will Shoot You With Rubber Bullets for Protesting ICE
As federal agents abducted at least 118 immigrants throughout Los Angeles County over the weekend, local leaders swatted away suggestions of collaboration on immigration enforcement — and sought to keep the blame squarely on federal authorities. “LA was peaceful before Friday,” said Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who joined her fellow California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom…
Read MoreThe Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund Launches Rapid Response Fund for Journalists Covering California Protests
The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund is announcing a new fund to support reporters and photographers facing legal threats and other hardships for their coverage of protests in California and other regions throughout the nation. Participating in the effort to provide assistance to these journalists are CalMatters and the National Press Photographers Association. Reporters and photojournalists are…
Read MoreIn Shocking Move, Oklahoma AG Decides to Retry Richard Glossip for Murder
It was after 10 a.m. on Monday morning when Richard Glossip was led into an eighth-floor courtroom in the Oklahoma County Courthouse by three sheriff’s deputies. Wearing orange prison scrubs and Crocs, and shackled at the waist and ankles, Glossip, now 62, looked small compared to the hulking deputies around him. His hair, now almost…
Read MoreMIT Student Condemned Genocide — So ADL Chief Said She Helped Cause Boulder Attack
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at the Javits Center in New York City on March 3, 2025. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League As the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt has done little to uphold his organization’s claims to fight antisemitism as the “leading anti-hate organization in the world.” Instead, he’s shored up…
Read MoreTrump Puts Lives at Risk by Revoking Emergency Abortion Guidelines for Hospitals
The Trump administration rescinded Biden-era guidance that explicitly required emergency rooms to provide abortions to pregnant patients if such care would save their lives. Medical experts expect the policy shift to sow chaos in hospitals and endanger pregnant people throughout the U.S. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s move to overturn Roe v. Wade,…
Read MoreThe Intercept Sues for Records About Arizona’s Financial Surveillance Dragnet
The Intercept filed a public records lawsuit on Monday for documents about a financial surveillance program run by the Arizona attorney general’s office for more than a decade. For the past year, the attorney general’s office has denied multiple requests for records about its relationship with the Transaction Record Analysis Center, or TRAC, a nonprofit organization…
Read MoreHow the FBI and Big Ag Started Treating Animal Rights Activists as Terrorists
As COVID raged across northern California in March 2020, a pair of farm industry groups were worried about a different threat: animal rights activists. Citing an FBI memo warning that activists trespassing on factory farms could spread a viral bird disease, the groups wrote a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom to argue that their longtime…
Read MoreHow to Write About Palestine
A man carries a dead child at Nasser Hospital, Khan Yunis, Gaza on May 24, 2025. Photo:Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu/Getty Images Begin on October 7th, 2023. Nothing important happened before this date. History began on October 7th. Never say the word occupation and avoid using terms like, “apartheid,” “segregation” and “illegal settlements.” Avoid writing about the…
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