When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes and came to a shocking conclusion: In one month, the ER physician had treated at least 18 children with gunshots to the head or chest. And that’s only the patients she had […]
Misleading ads get muted, universal child care is here, a tech company gets caught cheating, and tenants step up.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found. Epidemiologists and climate scientists attributed 16,500 out of 24,400 heat deaths from June to […]
From The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today, Counterpoint Press. The prosecutor at the Treblinka trials, Alfred Spiess, described his defendants to filmmaker Claude Lanzmann this way: “They weren’t SS men; they came from the euthanasia project, became accustomed to killing, were kept together during the winter of the […]
Mehdi and Owen discuss the Tommy Robinson far-right rally in London, the crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters by the unpopular Starmer government, and Owen's recent visit to the occupied West Bank.
Watch Francesca Fiorentini break down how ABC’s cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel Live is more about the bottom line for media conglomerates than 'cancel culture'.
“They started bombing the graves. There’s no safety for the dead even.” That is a message I got from my sister R., then 13 years old and living in Rafah, on May 14, 2021. Those words came from a child who, four months prior, had buried our father; a child who was for days under Israeli bombardment and who, like most kids in Gaza, survived several wars of aggression. Later that day I found this photo, showing the aftermath of Israel’s bombing of the Shejaiya cemetery.
Homebuilding giant Lennar has launched an e-marketplace, with a potential “kickback scheme,” to help corporate landlords buy up properties and raise rents.
Sixteen states have bucked new Trump restrictions and allow all residents to receive COVID-19 vaccines, but major pharmacy chains’ websites still say otherwise.