Journalism professor Steven Thrasher says Israel's "pinkwashing," which casts the country as a haven for queer rights, obscures its anti-LGBTQ policies while erasing the experience of queer people in Palestine.
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Two military veterans who disrupted Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing to become secretary of defense explain what motivated their protests.
Human rights advocates and healthcare professionals around the world are demanding the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of the largest major hospital in northern Gaza, Kamal Adwan Hospital. Abu Safiya disappeared in December after Israeli forces raided and shut down Kamal Adwan.
The confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, former Fox News host and military veteran Pete Hegseth, began Tuesday.
The Hind Rajab Foundation is a Belgium-based organization using the social media posts of Israeli soldiers to build cases against them for possible war crimes. Founder Dyab Abou Jahjah says it's important to hold Israel accountable for human rights violations, especially since many states and international bodies refuse to do so.
As parts of California burn up in climate-fueled wildfires, many are revisiting science fiction author Octavia Butler's "Parable" series. Released in the '90s, the story begins in 2024 in a world of climate chaos, rampant inequality and fascism, including a politician campaigning to "make America great again." Butler explained her inspiration for the novels in a 2005 interview with Democracy Now! — one of the final interviews before her death just months later.
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Abubaker Abed is a 22-year-old journalist in Gaza. He says the international press must speak up for their Palestinian colleagues who have been targeted and killed by Israel.
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Journalist and activist Sonali Kolhatkar says the reliance on incarcerated firefighters to battle the Los Angeles wildfires is "indicative of the ways in which our spending priorities are so skewed" toward policing and mass incarceration and away from building resilient communities.
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Climate scientist and activist Peter Kalmus lived in Altadena up until two years ago, when increasing heat and dryness pushed him to leave the Los Angeles area in fear of his safety. Now, his former neighborhood has totally burned down and Kalmus says this is "just the beginning" of accelerating climate disaster.
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Could the Biden administration close Guantanamo for good? With the most recent release of 11 Yemeni detainees, only 15 men remain incarcerated at the military prison known for its extensive civil and human rights abuses.
Democratic Congressmember Jim McGovern says President Biden’s unqualified support for Israel’s assault on Gaza violates multiple U.S. human rights laws.
Newly declassified documents prove that the FBI knew of Ethel Rosenberg’s innocence long before she was prosecuted by the federal government more than 60 years ago.
Rosenberg and her husband Julius were charged with sharing nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union and executed on June 19, 1953 in a defining event of the anticommunist Red Scare era led by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Their son Robert Meeropol is leading a call for President Biden to posthumously exonerate Ethel Rosenberg before the end of his term.
