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by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) on September 21, 2017 at 12:49 pm

A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Burma, where more than 400,000 members of the Rohingya Muslim minority have fled the country after hundreds of their villages were burned to the ground. The U.N. high commissioner for human rights has accused the Burmese government of waging a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. In the United States, there are increasing displays of […]

by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) on September 21, 2017 at 12:43 pm

At the United Nations, President Trump's chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, said Monday the U.S. would withdraw from the landmark 2015 Paris climate accord as planned. His comments came as U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said climate should be a top priority at this year's General Assembly. Our guest, economist Jeffrey Sachs, notes that the "agreement is […]

by Amy Thomson on September 22, 2017 at 1:18 am

Luther Strange and Roy Moore—the Republican candidates vying for Attorney General Jeff Session’s former Senate seat—took the debate stage in Montgomery, Alabama, Thursday night, in the final event before Tuesday’s primary runoff. Moore, an ultra-conservative former judge, attacked Sen. Strange, who has been holding the seat […]

by Bryan Schatz on September 22, 2017 at 12:24 am

On Thursday, President Donald Trump showered praise upon the increasingly autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “It’s a great honor and privilege—because he’s become a friend of mine—to introduce President Erdogan of Turkey,” Trump told reporters at a bilateral meeting in New York, where both leaders have been […]

by Ed Brayton on September 21, 2017 at 5:06 pm

Donald Trump’s nominees to the federal bench have been almost uniformly horrible in every possible way. Some of them are little more than b-list right-wing outrage bloggers. And one of them now under consideration thinks that laws that push for trans equality are part of “Satan’s plan.” Jeff Mateer, the current first assistant attorney general […]

by Ed Brayton on September 21, 2017 at 4:06 pm

A new lawsuit has been filed here in Michigan against the state for contracting with adoption agencies like Catholic Charities that refuse to place children with LGBT couples. The suit argues that is unconstitutional to use tax dollars to subsidize such discrimination. In 2015, when the Supreme Court struck down state laws banning same-sex marriage, […]

by Agency on September 9, 2017 at 1:42 am

Others appeared far less tolerant of CUCR’s choice of speakers. The Anarchist Black, Brown, Indigenous Assembly (ABBIA), a New York City-based group that describes... […]

by Agency on September 9, 2017 at 1:35 am

On August 27, several thousand Bay Area students, teachers, and community members attended the “Rally Against Hate,” which was organized by an unprecedented coalition... […]

by WNYC Studios on September 21, 2017 at 10:06 pm

Following Hurricane Maria’s landfall on Wednesday morning, we have only scarce images and reports from which to comprehend the scale of devastation in Puerto Rico right now. Perhaps due to disaster fatigue, perhaps due to the territory’s second-class status, the media coverage has been perfunctory. While the coverage to date has focused on the flooding and […]

by WNYC Studios on September 19, 2017 at 9:47 pm

Alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos recently released a list of speakers for his upcoming "Free Speech Week" at University of California Berkeley, a four-day event featuring Steve Bannon, Ann Coulter, and a host of other conservative voices. Yet, according to Berkeley officials, the Berkeley Patriot, the on-campus student […]