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Want to resist a data center? These organizers share how they did it.

Want to resist a data center? These organizers share how they did it.

Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities.

Freed Palestinian political prisoner Mahmoud al-Arda speaks

In this blockbuster episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa—a former Black Panther and political prisoner in the US—speaks with Palestinian political prisoner Mahmoud al-Arda after his release from Israeli prison.

by Mansa Musa and Ruwaida Amer April 20, 2026April 20, 2026

Is AI creating a new ‘Epstein class’?

Is AI creating a new ‘Epstein class’?

From Epstein to AI, the question is the same: who is above the law? Congressman Khanna responds as fears grow of a new era of power without consequences.

by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis April 17, 2026April 18, 2026

This Canadian journalist is in Iran to show the sides of war corporate media won’t

This Canadian journalist is in Iran to show the sides of war corporate media won’t

Award-winning journalist and former TRNN board member Dimitri Lascaris is reporting on the ground in Iran right now. You need to see his coverage.

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Iran reopens Strait of Hormuz after Israel-Lebanon truce as Trump continues blockade

by Brett Wilkins April 17, 2026April 17, 2026

‘Let me show you’: Survivors cling to life in Gaza’s tent cities

by Magdy Abu Asr April 16, 2026April 16, 2026

J Street’s ‘cut off military aid’ PR gambit changes nothing

by Adam Johnson April 16, 2026April 16, 2026

How Zionism’s anti-Jewish logic led Israel to bomb an Iranian synagogue

by Jared Sacks April 15, 2026April 15, 2026

Trump’s extreme use of military is stirring a crisis of conscience among troops

by Sam Carliner April 15, 2026April 15, 2026

‘The rain was black’: A plant explosion set off a toxic bomb in this Louisiana town

by Maximillian Alvarez April 15, 2026April 15, 2026

State Department pushes human rights watchdog to ignore deadly, illegal boat strike campaign

by Julia Conley April 14, 2026April 14, 2026

Everyone knows Israel is sabotaging the Iran ceasefire—even the Trump administration

by Marc Steiner April 14, 2026April 14, 2026

A lack of democracy in the United Farm Workers gave Chavez immunity

by Jane Slaughter April 13, 2026April 13, 2026

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Movements and Politics: US

Iran’s top diplomat says Trump team sabotaged talks with deal ‘inches away’

Iran’s top diplomat says Trump team sabotaged talks with deal ‘inches away’

by Jake Johnson

As Mexico enacts universal healthcare, advocate says insurers’ ‘stranglehold’ is moving US in ‘opposite direction’

by Stephen Prager

‘Shameful’: $4,049 of average US taxpayer’s bill last year went to war and weaponry

by Jake Johnson

Trump is turning warehouses into ICE detention camps. Can Maryland stop him?

by Maximillian Alvarez

Movements and Politics: International

‘Hungary has chosen Europe’ as voters end 16 straight years of Orbán’s far-right rule

‘Hungary has chosen Europe’ as voters end 16 straight years of Orbán’s far-right rule

by Brett Wilkins

Inside Israel’s Prison Regime

by Mansa Musa

US-Israeli war on Iran is intensifying all of global capitalism’s problems

by Ashley Smith

How US policy fueled Mexico’s cartel crisis | Under the Shadow S2E10

by Michael Fox

Racial Justice

Stolen wealth: how Black depositors funded the nation’s capital

Stolen wealth: how Black depositors funded the nation’s capital

by Mansa Musa

Louisiana still imprisons people convicted by ‘Jim Crow juries’

by Mansa Musa

‘Shut everything down’: Amid federal invasion, Minnesota calls for mass strike on Jan. 23

by Maximillian Alvarez

‘A forceful stand for our constitution’: judge orders release of Kilmar Ábrego García

by Brett Wilkins

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Critics hammer Trump admin’s ‘taxpayer funded bribe’ to kill massive wind energy project

Critics hammer Trump admin’s ‘taxpayer funded bribe’ to kill massive wind energy project

by Brad Reed

Fisherwoman Diane Wilson is on hunger strike to stop Dow’s pollution of Texas Gulf Coast

by Maximillian Alvarez

‘Intentional chemical warfare’: toxic black rain in Tehran after US-Israel bomb oil facilities

by Jon Queally

Data center giant secures $14 million deal to consume 40% of Pennsylvania town’s excess water

by Brad Reed

Prisons and Policing

‘A black site concentration camp’: Residents fight ICE detention warehouse in rural Maryland

‘A black site concentration camp’: Residents fight ICE detention warehouse in rural Maryland

by Maximillian Alvarez

Black anarchism in the US: A rich, radical tradition

by Mansa Musa

‘The rope is for Arabs only’: Israel’s new death penalty law for Palestinians recycles a colonial playbook

by Abdaljawad Omar

‘Don’t be a snitch’: US postal workers side with communities over collaboration with ICE

by Maximillian Alvarez

Economy and Inequality

Underpaid, uninsured, held at gunpoint: Baltimore security guards strike for a union

Underpaid, uninsured, held at gunpoint: Baltimore security guards strike for a union

by Maximillian Alvarez

DOGE attacks on Social Security have left millions in the lurch

by Marianne Dhenin

‘A moral obscenity’: Trump budget pairs record military boost with billions in cuts to social programs

by Jake Johnson

Faculty fight anti-union tactics at St. John’s University in New York

by Eleanor J. Bader

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We covered a now-discredited medical examiner for two decades. These are the botched cases that still haunt us.

We covered a now-discredited medical examiner for two decades. These are the botched cases that still haunt us.

by Stephen Janis and Taya Graham

A $1B ‘therapeutic’ illusion: advocates fight Baltimore’s new jail

by Mansa Musa

From Minneapolis to Baltimore, anti-ICE protests explode

by Maximillian Alvarez

Gas and electric bills are too damned high! Residents call for publicly owned power grid

by Maximillian Alvarez