The Illinois congressional candidate on why more Democrats aren’t taking direct action and how leaders should be responding to the right.
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Jonah Valdez and Matt Sledge discuss the latest on the Gaza “ceasefire,” an eyebrow-raising crypto pardon, and more published on The Intercept this week.
In the final days of the NYC mayoral race, the Democratic Party faces a choice between a future defined by Zohran Mamdani or Andrew Cuomo.
James Zogby and Jonah Valdez on what it will take for this ceasefire to succeed, and Palestinian writer Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi shares her hopes and fears.
Akela Lacy, Radley Balko, and Nick Turse discuss the administration’s rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home.
Amid the Republican-Democrat blame game, a federal judge’s extraordinary ruling takes on the Trump administration’s unlawful detentions of pro-Palestine protesters.