CNN Gaza Coverage Censored by Israel
By Sharon Zhang CNN has for years maintained a policy of running all of its coverage on Israel and Palestine, including its recent Gaza coverage, past its bureau in Jerusalem, where it is subject to…
I Cannot Be Quietly Complicit
Biden Official Resigns Over Gaza Assault By Jake Johnson An Education Department official who volunteered for President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign announced his resignation in early January over the administration’s support for Israel’s “indiscriminate violence”…
Remember the Tenacity of 400,000 Welsh Women
Commentary by Rowan Williams One significant anniversary in 2023 passed almost without mention. In May 1923, the Welsh women’s peace petition was initiated—a plea from the women of Wales to the women of the US,…
Where Will the World Find Refuge in 2024?
By Rebecca Gordon Back in 1968, my father announced that, if Richard Nixon were elected president that November, he was going to move us all to Canada. I’m not sure who “us all” actually was,…
If I Must Die
By Refaat Alareer If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so…
Seeing Every Child
Nonprofit provides health care regardless of ability to pay By Tiney Ricciardi When Reid DeSpiegelaere, chief development officer at Every Child Pediatrics, talks about his work’s mission, he points to the name of the nonprofit…
‘Shame!’ LNG Plant Opponents Rage
By Lisa Sorg It took nearly two hours for dozens of opponents of a proposed liquified natural gas plant in Person County to explain how the project—aspects of which have been crafted in secret—would harm…
When a For-Profit Company Takes Over the ER
Commentary by Clayton Dalton Earlier this year, I stood outside the hospital in New Mexico where I worked as an emergency physician. I was, for the first time, picketing. The next day I would be…
This Is a Pandemic of Attrition
Commentary by Joe Vipond, Julia M. Wright, and Dan Furst It’s time for our society to admit that we’ve made a mistake and change course. The COVID-is-mild experiment, despite the wishing and the hoping, has…
Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist
Commentary by Ed Yong In the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, when many people who are now still sick were first infected, the common wisdom was that the coronavirus either sent you to an…