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Mel Leonor Barclay and Shefali Luthra: ICE puts pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

October 21, 2025 · 4 Comments

Nick Turse: On the Precipice of Authoritarian Rule

The Trump Administration’s Military Occupation of America

October 20, 2025 · 5 Comments

Emma Grover: Finding Sappho | Four translations in conversation

In this article, I review four translations of Sappho produced over the past six decades.

October 19, 2025 · 7 Comments

Molly Fisk: The Northeast Edge of Normal

parents of children
I’ll never meet are gone into the open
arms of the sky and the sea and their
sons and daughters with them how
can this happen again

October 18, 2025 · 11 Comments

Video: Jane Goodall Asks What Separates Us From Chimpanzees?

Jane Goodall says the only real difference between humans and chimps is our sophisticated language. She urges us to start using it to change the world.

October 18, 2025 · 7 Comments

Abby Zimet: Hezbollah and MS-13 ‘R Us, Naked On Bikes In Frog Ears

Despite court losses, public antipathy, ridicule, a shutdown they ignore, the nascent police state lurches on with its daft apocalyptic narrative of an America in flames.

October 17, 2025 · 6 Comments

Fred Shaw: Debunking the Right’s Obsession with Antifa

Rutgers University History Professor Mark Bray shares why he and his family fled the U.S. over safety concerns amid the Trump administration’s broad attacks on Antifa.

October 13, 2025 · 2 Comments

Audio: Call Me Antifa

Inspired by the spirit of the Greatest Generation who fought fascism in World War II, this song celebrates love over hate, peace over violence, and liberty over authoritarianism.

October 12, 2025 · 15 Comments

Linda Belans: The mirror doesn’t lie

Do I look fat
in this outrage?
puffed up?

October 11, 2025 · 13 Comments

Cesare Pavese: Displaced People

Suppose tomorrow, bright and early, we took a trip
to my hills. We could stroll through the vineyards and, maybe,
meet with a couple of girls, dark brown, ripened by the sun,
we could start a conversation and sample some of their grapes.

October 10, 2025 · 6 Comments

Video: The Tunnel

Three refugees run the race of their lives from Calais to Dover through the Euro Tunnel, trying to beat the trains and overcome their terror in a bid to reach freedom and start new lives in the UK. Based on true accounts.

October 10, 2025 · Leave a comment

Abby Zimet: Untethered to the Facts

Two months ago, the United States made the Human Rights Watch list for the first time; rights advocates cited a nation “sliding deeper into the quicksands of authoritarianism” with peaceful protests met with military force, critics treated as criminals, journalists targeted, and support slashed for civil society.

October 9, 2025 · 10 Comments

Adam Patric Miller: A Chill in American Classrooms

I’m trying to be a good teacher, listening carefully to my students so I can make the ten-thousand micro-adjustments in what I’m presenting to them so they will feel how much I really want them to learn.

October 8, 2025 · 10 Comments

David Lauterstein: Lulav

I am a Jew. I am ashamed of those wanting to kill.
The people of Gaza shake their own bodies
in six directions, with nowhere to go,
their only harvest, soil.

October 7, 2025 · 9 Comments

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