Politics & Democracy

796 posts

From service to studio: How veterans are finding freedom in art

With key programs suspended and jobs lost, veterans face mounting instability. Yet through painting, photography, and installation, they’re crafting new pathways toward healing—and accountability

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7 Min
By: Flor Franceschetti

Exclusive: India’s largest far-right Hindu organization hires U.S. lobbyists for congressional influence campaign

Squire Patton Boggs lobbied U.S. lawmakers on behalf of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist group linked to discrimination and violence against Muslims, a Prism investigation found

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12 Min
By: Meghnad Bose, Biplob Kumar Das

With democracy under threat, indie bookstores merge activism and literature for collective care

Building on the legacy of Black-owned bookstores, Charis Books, Red Emma’s, and other booksellers serve as intellectual and cultural hubs during rising authoritarianism

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7 Min
By: Costa Beavin Pappas

Legal groups sue Trump administration over use of Israeli spyware on immigrant communities

Civil rights attorneys are seeking documents disclosing details on the extent of ICE’s use of invasive Israeli spyware to track, monitor, and target immigrants and activists

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3 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Why doesn’t the ‘right to life’ apply to climate change?

The political right argues that fetuses have constitutional rights, while advocating for policies that spew carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, killing the Earth and harming humans

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

For Israel and the U.S., there is always ‘the next enemy’

Through the annexation of land, apartheid, surveillance, mass incarceration, expulsion, and death, the two countries are engaged in a forever war

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9 Min
By: Marah Abdel Jaber

Less than a year into the Trump administration, queer-serving organizations are pushed to the brink

The Rainbow Youth Project, the Trevor Project, and other groups providing mental health services to LGBTQIA+ youth report a massive rise in need

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8 Min
By: Adam Rhodes

‘Solidarity is always the way forward’

In a Q&A with Prism, abolitionist organizer Kelly Hayes discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, and activists

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7 Min
By: Adryan Corcione

Local food relief sites navigate increased demand amid SNAP pause

With the ongoing federal government shutdown, food assistance through SNAP won’t come through for November, affecting 42 million Americans

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6 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

The spiritual, political, and liberatory work of unlearning

In a Q&A with Prism, journalist and activist Lewis Raven Wallace discussed his new book “Radical Unlearning,” a guide for breaking free from harmful ideologies

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9 Min
By: Adryan Corcione

After massive cuts at the Centers for Disease Control, what’s left of COVID-19 mitigation efforts?

Massive cuts at the CDC and growing hostility toward vaccination under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leave the public more vulnerable to the ongoing threat of COVID-19, experts say

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6 Min
By: Laura Weiss

Private prison executives revel in profiting off ICE arrests in earnings calls

Second-quarter earnings calls reveal how GEO Group and CoreCivic are championing and profiting from Trump’s mass deportation agenda

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6 Min
By: Eliza Dewey

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