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Google Podcasts Is Hosting a Cache of White Nationalist Content
Google remains one of the last major platforms to host some of the most egregious white nationalist podcasts.
AOC and Cori Bush Have Helped Remove Taboo on Calling Israel an Apartheid State
A Human Rights Watch report has enabled mainstream media figures to come out and say that Israel practices apartheid.
The US Needs to Stop Treating Ramadan Like a National Security Issue
The framing of Islam as a national security threat serves as justification for extreme interventions by the state.
A Novel About Racist Police Violence, Rejected in 1941, Has Just Been Published
Publishers refused to release Richard Wright's novel in part because of its graphic descriptions of police brutality.
Faith Communities Must Stop Funding Programs That Reinforce Mass Incarceration
Faith communities must make a choice between reinforcing the carceral state or resisting it.
Making Big Tech Pay News Outlets Won’t Help Save Independent Journalism
New laws that force Big Tech into payment negotiations with Big Media won't save journalism. Here’s a better way.
White Monarchy Nearly Killed Meghan Markle. It Has Killed Countless Others.
The white supremacist violence of the British monarchy has always spread death and suffering in its wake.
Pop Culture Portrays Aerial Bombardment of Middle East as “Business as Usual”
By showing drone strikes as the “answer” to terrible dilemmas, popular culture legitimizes brutal warfare.
A Return to “Normal” Under Biden Is Not Good Enough. We Must Demand More.
From birth, the “normality” of capitalism is forced upon us. Let’s rebut the idea that it’s OK to live in oppression.
Muslims Are Drawing on Tradition to Sow Seeds of Liberation
In these bleak times, Muslims are turning to the traditions within Islam that contribute most to collective liberation.