9+ hour, 48+ min ago   (1589+ words) The new sanctions may be groundbreaking, but they’re also full of loopholes — including for certain weapons exports. The United Kingdom, joined by Canada and France, announced this week that they are taking action against Israeli settlements in the West Bank....

9+ hour, 50+ min ago   (475+ words) Unions sued over the question, which asks job applicants to share how they would further the president’s agenda. A court’s decision to block the Trump administration from including a “loyalty question” on federal job applications was a win not only…...

9+ hour, 52+ min ago   (800+ words) More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE. Just a year ago, Martín Soto was making breakfast at home with his wife, Gabriela, while their daughter got ready for her first day…...

9+ hour, 54+ min ago   (1191+ words) Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.” Atahualpa Sofía Enciso’s children don’t know what a normal river is, she says. Living by the Santiago River in the state of…...

16+ hour, 28+ min ago   (927+ words) Unions decried the firing of nearly 100 workers, which they said will leave major gaps in coverage in many regions. As social media networks filled with posts from journalists “deeply saddened” to reveal they were part of McClatchy’s latest round of…...

18+ hour, 9+ min ago   (706+ words) Courts in Gaza face frequent power outages and shortages of printing supplies. Some have only one computer. In a makeshift structure made of worn-out fabric in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, 25-year-old Samira Abdel Hamid is trying to build a life for…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (574+ words) National Nurses United is expanding its campaign against Palantir in a global week of action starting on September 28. National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S., is demanding that hospitals cut ties with Palantir, with nurses…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (665+ words) Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has described a plan to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries. Nearly a year after Donald Trump announced the creation of the “Board of Peace,” which was ostensibly charged with ending Israel’s…...

1+ day, 15+ 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…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (427+ words) “This is what has become the norm in our politics,” one Democratic candidate said in reaction to the GOP event. The second night of the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, this week featured racist remarks from speakers and a…...