Meme-ing Our Way Through the Era of Ultra-Violence
The first hours of September 11, 2001 brought the kind of crisp Manhattan morning that signals fall has finally arrived after a scorching summer. It…
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Among the Rescuers at Ground Zero, Where Lives Were Ground to Dust
A remembrance of a New Yorker of the day from hell.
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9/11 Began 25 Years of Nonstop War and Abuses of Power
Twenty-five years ago, I flew into Nice, France, for a business meeting—and arrived early in the afternoon of September 11. Later, as I walked into…
America’s Air Monitors Are Disappearing. So Is Your Power to Expose Polluters
Across several states, a quiet chemical industry campaign is making it harder to hold polluters accountable.
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Surge in displacement following fighting in southwest Yemen
At least 46,000 people have been displaced since renewed fighting last week between Houthi rebels and pro-government forces in southwestern Yemen, the International Organization for…
John Fetterman Needs to Resign
If a worker at a Sheetz gas station approached their job the way John Fetterman does, they’d be fired within a week. It’s one of…
Human cost of violence in South Sudan ‘continues to grow’
Independent human rights investigators voiced deep concern over growing risks to both civilians and South Sudan’s political transition following their latest fact-finding mission to the…
‘An assault on humanity itself’: Guterres pays tribute to 9/11 victims, survivors and first responders
Twenty-five years ago, the heinous terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 against the United States claimed thousands of lives and represented “an assault on humanity…
Ukraine: Drone attacks on Chornobyl are ‘gambling with the safety of millions of people’
A drone strike on the protective structure at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant could have endangered the safety of millions of people, UN Development Programme…
Children Deserve the Right to Hug Their Incarcerated Parents
When I was a year old, my parents were arrested. My mother came home 22 years later. My father came home after 40 years. I…