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In a huge win for environmental advocates, a federal judge on Monday ruled that the Trump administration must restore $176 million in grants to six cities and 13 nonprofits across the United States. The decision by U.S. District Court Judge…

Bearing witness to the murder of innocents A coalition of military veterans, religious and humanitarian organizations will begin a 40-day “Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza,” with a news conference at 10:00 am ET, at the “Isaiah Wall” near the…

To confront the barrage of executive orders and undiplomatic policies from the U.S. government, the opposition is focusing on restoring institutions to their pre-Trump state—without recognizing that it was precisely those institutions that created the conditions for the current crisis.…

As more people are starting to realize — and as Indigenous Peoples have understood for millennia — how we treat the land affects everything from food and water security to carbon sequestration and climate change. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Many farms in the United States are multigenerational family operations,…

The mainstream media seems to be waiting for a clash between Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and U.S. President Donald Trump. Both figures embody starkly different visions of the present moment. Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first woman president and a self-described humanist, enjoys…

Satsuki Ina on Ending the Alien Enemies Act Photos of my father and other Japanese Americans brutalized in the Tule Lake Segregation Center in 1945 chillingly resonate with the treatment of Venezuelans by the U.S. government today. Invoking the Alien…

Introduction: Reflecting Briefly on Part 1 A considerable portion of part one of this two part article consisted of a synthesis of how and why the last two and 1/2 decades of American foreign policy have been crippling for the…

In America, for many hours, everyone was talking about the cardinal who was elected to succeed the good and virtuous Pope Francis. The surprise was—and still is—tremendous. “America is back!” I exclaimed instinctively. Fortunately, an American was elected, someone who…

Introduction: An Optimal Way to Begin Many Americans automatically assume that their preferred political party’s foreign policy aims are substantively congruent with that party’s proclaimed domestic agenda. This simply isn’t the case though, and it’s been one of the primary…

By Maxine Lowy Late at night there’s a knock on the door. When the door is opened, men in civilian clothes descend upon a man, handcuff him and take him away. Elsewhere, a young woman on the sidewalk near her…