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Headlines for November 14, 2025; “Gunboat Diplomacy”: U.S. War in Latin America Feared as Hegseth Launches “Operation Southern Spear”; “You Have Arrived in Hell”: Venezuelans Sent By U.S. to El Salvador Faced Torture, Sexual Abuse; “The Trillion Dollar War Machine”: William Hartung on How U.S. Military Spending Fuels Wars; How Mamdani Won: Field Director Tascha Van Auken on Grassroots Organizing Behind Historic Victory

Headlines for November 13, 2025; Trump “Knew About The Girls”: Calls Grow For Full Epstein Files After Release of Emails; Rep. Adelita Grijalva Speaks out on Epstein Files & More After Being Sworn in 7 Weeks Late; Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID

Headlines for November 12, 2025; “Caved Too Soon”: Ro Khanna on Senate Shutdown Deal, Why Schumer Should Step Down & Epstein Files; “Food is A Fundamental Human Right”: U.S. Hunger Expert Decries Trump Withholding Food Assistance; Epstein & Israel: Drop Site News Investigates Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence; “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”: New Film on Gaza Photojournalist Killed in Israeli Strike

Headlines for November 11, 2025; Calls For Schumer to Step Down Grow as Democrats Cave on Healthcare & Help GOP Pass Funding Bill; Chicago Parents Denounce ICE For Violently Detaining Beloved Daycare Teacher in Front of Toddlers; “Free Joan Little”: New Film on Landmark 1975 Murder Acquittal of Woman Sexually Assaulted by Prison Guard

Watch Part 2 of our interview with acclaimed journalist Jelani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, about his new collection of essays, “Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here.”

Headlines for November 10, 2025; U.N. Climate Summit Opens in Brazil as the Phillippines is Hit by Back-to-Back to Deadly Typhoons; Exposed: 5,000+ Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Got Access to U.N. Climate Talks & Helped Block Climate Action; How We Got Here: Jelani Cobb on Rise of Trump & White Nationalism After Push for Racial Justice

Headlines for November 07, 2025; “The Fight Is Not Over”: LGBTQ Advocates Challenge Supreme Court’s Anti-Trans Passport Ruling; “Without Precedent”: Lisa Graves on the Supreme Court, Tariffs, Voting Rights & Legacy of John Roberts; Is the U.S. Planning to Assassinate Maduro? Peter Kornbluh on “Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy”; Remembering Peter Weiss: Legendary Human Rights Lawyer Dies at 99

Part 2 of our conversation with Tareq Baconi, author of the new memoir, Fire in Every Direction.

Headlines for November 06, 2025; “My Community Is Under Invasion from Our Own Federal Gov’t”: Evanston Mayor Decries ICE Raids in Illinois; “Taken: The Agents Raiding Communities and the People Trying to Stop Them”: Maria Hinojosa; “Fire in Every Direction”: Palestinian Author Tareq Baconi on Gaza, Zionism & Embracing Queerness

Headlines for November 05, 2025; Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins Historic NYC Mayoral Race: “The Future Is in Our Hands”; The Movement Behind Mamdani: Organizers & Supporters Celebrate Stunning Victory & Repudiation of Trump; This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory; “Epic Night for Democrats”: Party Wins Races Across the U.S. in Voter Rebuke to Trump

Headlines for November 04, 2025; From Mamdani to Prop 50, John Nichols on Election Day Races & the Future of Democratic Party; “The Dark Side”: Dick Cheney’s Legacy from Iraq Invasion to U.S. Torture Program; “Injustice”: How Biden’s DOJ Failed to Hold Trump Accountable for Jan. 6, Corruption & More

Headlines for November 03, 2025; “Denying People the Right to Food”: Millions Could Go Hungry as Trump Admin Holds Up SNAP Benefits; Trump Throws “Great Gatsby” Party at Mar-a-Lago as Food Stamps End for Millions; “Our Time Is Now”: Zohran Mamdani’s Mayoral Campaign Inspires NYC’s Working-Class South Asians; Trump Threatens to Go “Guns-a-Blazing” into Nigeria over “Killing of Christians”; Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Denial of His U.S. Visa & Trump’s Threat to Strike Nigeria