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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Vincent Gaynor remembers, almost to the minute, when he realized his part in birthing the breakthrough gene therapy Zolgensma had ended and the forces that turned it into the world’s most expensive...
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Netanyahu Is Preparing to Sabotage the Gaza Ceasefire… Again
From the moment Israel accepted the ceasefire deal, its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides have characterized it as a limited agreement aimed at securing the release of as many Israeli...
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How the Greens Became a Driving Force of German Militarism
Stability used to be one of Germany’s greatest virtues. Not any more. A political crisis has triggered an early federal election on 23 February. And Europe’s largest economy has been in recession for...
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North Africa’s Regional Power Struggle
Too often, the Western Sahara conflict is viewed as the root cause of tensions between Algiers and Rabat. Analyzing Algeria-Morocco relations through the lens of this conflict is, however, not only...
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Musk & the Myth of USAID
What hath the MAGA movement wrought? I doubt the archest of Donald Trump’s arch-enemies ever imagined that in his second term he would take things this far in the direction of dangerous or dumb or...
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Repression Vs. Activism — Colleges Crack Down While Gaza Solidarity Persists
Last spring, campuses across the country became flashpoints of anti-war resistance, as thousands of students mobilized in a powerful demonstration of moral conscience and collective action. Their...
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The Chagos Islands Were Never Britain’s To Give Away
Nigel Farage and the Conservatives are having a meltdown about Britain ‘giving up sovereignty’ of illegally occupied land. Britain’s foreign secretary David Lammy will this week meet his new US...
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Fascism’s Final Gamble: The Fight for Democracy’s Last Breath
Amid the firestorm of democracy-destroying bombs Trump hurls at the institutions, values, and fragile promises of a wounded America, we must grasp the full anatomy of this assault. This is not simply...
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UN Peacekeepers Watch Civilians Massacred
On 26 January, 26 unarmed civilians were shot dead by Israel and 147 wounded in a massacre observed by heavily armed UN Peacekeepers who did not intervene. I asked the UN the very hard questions which...
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Tariq Ali on Trump’s Embrace of Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Global Rise of the...
Acclaimed scholar and activist Tariq Ali joins us for a wide-ranging conversation. In Part 1, he responds to Trump’s support of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, the U.S.’s capitulation to Israeli...
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The Hague Group Must Become a Global Initiative
The formation of The Hague Group is a critical step toward saving the international legal order. More states need to follow through to ensure the end of systemic impunity. In Palestine, that abuses and...
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Can Worker-to-Worker Organizing Help Labor Survive The Trump Era?
How many graduates of Buena Vista Elementary and Lowell High School in San Francisco have become labor book authors? Probably not many–other than Eric Blanc, whose mother taught in that city’s public...
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DOGE Is Hiring. The Response Did Not Disappoint.
DOGE’s hiring site has become a focal point for cathartic and even strategic outrage, underscoring the important role humor and rebellious defiance play in bleak times. This week, word got out that the...
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Hamas Report to Mediators Accuses Israel of Pervasive Gaza Ceasefire Violations
Hamas officials submitted a two-page report to mediators on Tuesday listing a wide range of Israeli violations of the Gaza ceasefire since the agreement went into effect on January 19—including the...
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Media Silent Over Israel’s Use Of The ‘Hannibal Directive’ on 7 October 2023
In an interview with Israeli television last Thursday, Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defence minister, confirmed that the so-called ‘Hannibal Directive’ was implemented by Israeli military forces on...
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Trump’s Goal of Burying History Won’t Work If Teachers Refuse to Stop Teaching
President Donald Trump is waging an all-out assault on education by issuing executive orders designed to privatize schooling, attack immigrant and transgender students, prohibit solidarity with...
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After Resounding ‘No’ Vote, Letter Carriers Should Go on Offense
Members of the National Association of Letter Carriers have rejected a sellout tentative agreement by 71 percent, in a 63,680 to 26,304 vote. That’s a turnout of 48.4 percent—and more “no” votes than...
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How We Distribute Power Will Influence Our Future
Power in human societies is often viewed as hierarchical, meaning that it’s tiered and ranked. This view doesn’t fully capture the complexity of how power is managed in different cultures. Some...
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Trump International Hotel and Tower, Gaza
Donald Trump spoke to reporters for over three hours on Air Force One on his way to see the Super Bowl in New Orleans on 9 February 2025. It was not clear to the reporters who broadcast his comments...
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Trump Gives Peace a Chance in Ukraine
As we approach the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a monumental shift is taking place that might just lead to the end of this calamitous war. This is not a breakthrough on the...
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