2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (256+ words) The catastrophic violence and Islamophobia that the "war on terror" launched within the U.S. and across the globe has continued unabated. Less than two weeks after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, former President Bush announced the launch of the “war on terror” — a…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (172+ words) Philosopher George Yancy analyzes the contemporary expression of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the “entrails of whiteness.” The war on terror was not inevitable, nor was the extraordinary violence carried out in its name necessary. Two and a half decades after…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (365+ words) The US’s post-9/11 wars have cost the country at least $8 trillion in military costs, research recently found. President Donald Trump has renewed the national emergency declared by President George W. Bush three days after 9/11, extending the nation’s emergency “terrorist” threat…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (571+ words) Adam Abdullah of St. Paul, Minnesota, is a legal resident with no criminal background. Federal immigration authorities have sent a resident of St. Paul, Minnesota, to Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, despite the man having no criminal record and…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1512+ words) As the movement evolves, activists are pushing to ensure it helps workers and the people they care for. When Cai Qiong Liu applied for a visa to come to the U.S., she told officials she was in search of a better…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (604+ words) Trump’s plan to “make D.C. beautiful again” means more policing for the city’s residents. The expenditures are enormous: $16 million toward a failed paint job on the National Mall reflecting pool. $5 million for bronze horse statues. Over $900 million toward White…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (138+ words) Eddie Melton, the mayor of the majority-Black city, says infrastructure must be hardened ahead of future severe storms. As climate change worsens wildfires, a gutted US Forest Service is struggling to keep up. This is what happens when a government…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (522+ words) Five thousand people attended a rally in New York City led by the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Eighty-seven years later, global leaders in ethno-fascism and their sympathizers returned to Madison Square Garden. Speakers pointed out how the RSS’s notion of…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (625+ words) The vile fumes saturate our food with their smell. Our daily inhalation of toxic burned plastics is slowly killing us. I can’t remember how many times I told my mother, “I’m suffocating in every sense of the word, and if…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (381+ words) The White House has been in talks with the firm since the spring of last year. For the past year, the National Park Service (NPS) has been in talks with a private corporation to negotiate a possible land deal, providing…...