Lindsey Boylan is a former aide to Andrew Cuomo who was the first woman to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment. She now supports Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral election and says voters must not forget Cuomo's history of abuse. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/lindsey_boylan

Transgender Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Dies at 78

Speaker Johnson Continues to Delay Swearing-In of Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva

State Department Revokes Visas of Foreign Nationals over Charlie Kirk Comments

ICE Agents Disperse Protesters with Tear Gas After High-Speed Chase in Chicago

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Amazon Fires Software Engineer Who Criticized Cloud Computing Project with Israel

Rutgers professor Mark Bray has fled the country after Turning Point USA launched a concerted online campaign that dubbed him “Dr. Antifa.”

Rutgers professor Mark Bray is author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," which explores the history and tactics of anti-fascist movements. He recently fled the U.S. after receiving death threats over his scholarship. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/mark_bray

Lindsey Boylan was the first of about a dozen women to accuse Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment and is now supporting Zohram Mamdani for mayor of New York City.

“My family is very happy that the families of other hostages that have been returned, dead and alive, are reaching some degree of closure.”

Lindsey Boylan was the first of about a dozen women to accuse Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment and is now supporting Zohram Mamdani for mayor of New York City.

“What we’re seeing today in the U.S. is increasingly fascist. MAGA, I believe — and I study fascism, I don’t say this lightly — is a fascist movement.”

“Palestinian society on a whole is suffering far, far more" than Israeli society, says historian Joel Beinin, whose niece was held hostage by Hamas for 54 days.

“Anyone who has any critique of Trump is potentially in the crosshairs,” says @mark-bray.bsky.social, a Rutgers professor who fled the country with his family after receiving death threats for his antifa scholarship.

Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social fled the country with his family after receiving death threats amid a right-wing campaign targeting him for his scholarship on antifa.

Juan González reports on Chicago's resistance against ICE.

What's really in Trump's Gaza ceasefire deal?

At least 19 Palestinian doctors are still being held in Israeli detention without charge.

On Monday, as President Trump addressed the Israeli Knesset, a group of lawmakers briefly interrupted his speech, waving signs that said “Recognize Palestine.”

Happy 5th birthday (36 in dog-years) to Amy Goodman’s goodpup Zazu!

Human rights advocates and healthcare workers are still calling for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been detained under harsh conditions by Israel for nearly a year.

Israel continues to refuse to release the Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti in order to keep Palestinians "divided."

Israeli parliamentary member Ofer Cassif was expelled from the Knesset yesterday after protesting Trump's speech. "Yesterday, there was a disgusting display of flattery and personality cult by two megalomaniacs who are hungry for power and blood."

“We Survived the Night”: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/13/julian_noisecat_we_survived_the_night

Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide” https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/13/ilan_pappe_israel_on_the_brink

“We Lost Everything”: Palestinian Writer Ahmed Abu Artema on Gaza Ceasefire, Hostage Exchange & More https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/13/gaza_ceasefire_ahmed_abu_artema

While there is "some joy" in knowing that bombs have stopped falling on Gaza, Israeli historian Ilan Pappé warns that many Israeli leaders remain committed to using violence in order to "wipe out Palestine as a nation, as a people and as a country." Ilan Pappé's new book is "Israel on the Brink."

"The people in Gaza, including me, lost everything." As Israel and Hamas exchange captives amid a U.S.-backed ceasefire, writer Ahmed Abu Artema slams Western double standards that privilege Israeli lives over those of Palestinians.

Who is María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Historian Greg Grandin calls her a "shocking choice" who is "completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism."

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Sudan’s famine is the biggest and most intractable in the world.

Plestia Alaquad, a young journalist from Gaza, has published a book chronicling her experience before she was able to evacuate in late 2023.

The right-wing consolidation of corporate media continues.

Are Republicans refusing to swear in Democratic representative-elect Adelita Grijalva to prevent a vote on the Epstein files?

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"We were strip-searched, zip-tied, blindfolded and disappeared into the Negev Desert."

"I suspect [Israel] will find a method to abrogate this agreement and ensure it is only of a temporary nature."

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Texas Court Halts Execution of Robert Roberson, Convicted over “Shaken Baby Syndrome”

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes Trump’s Deployment of Texas Troops to Illinois

Writer Cory Doctorow on the "enshittification" of everything. Full interview: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/cory_doctorow

National Guard Troops Set to Begin Patrols of Memphis

U.S. Begins Implementation of $20 Billion Bailout for Argentina

Colombia’s President Petro Claims Colombians Killed in Boat Struck by U.S.

2025 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado

The Trump-backed Gaza ceasefire deal "is not a peace agreement," says Palestinian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu. "This is not an end to the occupation." Full interview: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/gaza_ceasefire_deal

“America’s ruling class has managed to neutralize all the discipline that it ever faced. Their weirdest, worst ideas are the ones that we’re all stuck with.”

“They’ve given it to somebody who’s completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism.”

“It should have been that the world put sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide, rather than forcing Palestinians to negotiate an end to it.”