Trans Youth Under 19
Left with Few Options in NC By Brandon Kingdollar After North Carolina’s two largest medical providers halted gender-affirming care for patients below the age of 19, trans youth in the state are left with few…
Injustice
Belgium’s Lumumba Case Raises a Question
By Tafi Mhaka On January 20, a court in Brussels, Belgium, convened a procedural hearing in the long-running case concerning the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the…
Administrative Warfare
The End of the Political Commentary by Nel Bonilla Why are administrative instead of legal tools used to sanction people like Jacques Baud, Hüseyin Doğru, Alina Lipp, or Nathalie Yamb? We are witnessing a fundamental…
ICE Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers
Commentary by Kathryn Rubino Did you have immigration lawyer watch list on your 2025 authoritarianism BINGO card? If so, congrats! But for everyone else, it’s yet another sad slide into federal control to learn that…
The Global Gag Order Shielding Corporate Tax Cheaters
By Mark Bou Mansour A US-backed global gag order preventing governments from revealing the names of multinational corporations found shifting billions into tax havens has caused countries to miss out on over US$475 billion in…
Kerala Has Abolished Extreme Poverty
By Vijay Prashad On 1 November 2025, the south-western Indian state of Kerala—home to 34 million people—was declared free from extreme poverty by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Kerala is one of the few places in…
Venezuela Under Siege
A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions By Roger D. Harris Washington is targeting the Venezuelan people in an escalating regime-change offensive, combining open military violence with an economic siege that…
Exxon’s Long History in Venezuela
By Nick Corbishley Exxon has a long, rich history in Venezuela dating back over a century. Its predecessor, Standard Oil, was one of the first companies to explore for oil in the South American country…
Bodies as Barricades
By Calla Mairead Walsh The ongoing “Prisoners for Palestine” hunger strike in British prisons, now exceeding 46 days, is the largest protest in UK prisons since the 1981 Irish republican strike. Eight political prisoners, remanded…
The Lies Americans Tell Themselves
By Scott Hechinger The first time I saw the photo, I stopped breathing. A man, who appeared to be a restaurant worker in Charlotte, North Carolina, pinned to the floor of a commercial kitchen, his…