Cumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia—this city of hospitals—who works at the upscale grocery Sea & Poison and is navigating the onset of an autoimmune condition. To start...

He fled brutal repression — only to discover, as so many Uyghur refugees have, that China’s power stretches far beyond its borders.

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

Investigation under way into assault on O’Brien who claims police brutality expected in pro-Palestine demonstrations

When the vice president says "the universities are the enemy," let’s believe him.

On the art of observation

Mushrooms,​ trees, turf, twigs, bushes, moss-covered stones: nature is a force in Olga Tokarczuk’s Empusium,...

Jeremy Ben-Ami explains he has been 'persuaded rationally' by legal and scholarly arguments, stresses that though he won't use term himself, he won't argue against it either

With his strange machines and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created a new technique for improving strength and movement.

“This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,” pl...

Trotz der verheerenden Menschenrechtssituation in Afghanistan schiebt die Bundesregierung Dutzende Personen dorthin ab. Asyl-Organisationen schlagen Alarm.

ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.

Nine killed in separate bombing of a home on Sunday and 31 others shot dead near aid distribution site on Saturday

The contractors are illegally covering up the USDOT numbers on their trucks.

Die Uneinsichtigkeit des Museums: Georg Kolbes berühmter Tänzerinnen-Brunnen, für den in Theresienstadt getöteten Heinrich Stahl geschaffen, bleibt um seine dunkle Geschichte betrogen. Der Begriff „NS...

These were the updates from Israel’s war on Gaza for Friday, July 4, 2025.

I have risked my life to get food from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation centers in Gaza, where Israel opens fire on aid seekers from every direction. I have an impossible choice: slow death from…

With aid deliveries being limited severely since March, Palestinians are facing extreme levels of starvation, isolation and murder by Israel.

Vice President Biden has apologized for using the term

Air strikes left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire killed 23 others as Palestinians tried to get desperately-needed food, witnesses and health officials said

How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.

New data obtained by 404 Media also shows California cops are illegally sharing Flock automatic license plate reader (ALPR) data with other agencies out of state, who in turn are performing searches…

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