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At a closed-door fundraiser, Bhavini Patel told donors she was strategizing to get Republicans to vote against Lee in the Democratic primary.

The post Summer Lee’s Primary Foe Wants Pro-Israel and Right-Wing Hindu Supporters to Take Down the Squad appeared first on The Intercept.

In a letter, more than 1,000 of Goldman’s constituents condemned him for lambasting charges of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

The post Rep. Dan Goldman’s “Disgust” at South Africa’s Genocide Case Is Costing Him Votes appeared first on The Intercept.

Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency and Israel’s war on Gaza (not to mention the flare-ups of global climate change), the U.S. has slipped quietly toward an assault on civil liberties as an answer to plummeting mental health. From coast to coast, state lawmakers of both parties are reaching for coercive treatment and involuntary commitment to address spiraling substance use and overdose crises — an approach that will only escalate despair and multiply otherwise preventable deaths while helping to choke the life out of America. In December, we wrote about how loneliness has become a public-health crisis, according to the Surgeon General, and the ways in which it drives widespread... Read more

I am falsely accused of a crime and find myself at an intense trial that could end in jail time. The judge tells me that he will drop all the charges if I can give him information about five men spotted at the scene of the crime. He shows me the pictures of the suspects. They are the members of One Direction.

I go to the bank to make a withdrawal, and they tell me they have new safes to hold large sums of money. I overhear the employees talking about how the code for the safe is the phone number sung at the beginning of “Kiss Me Thru The Phone” by Soulja Boy. There is also a fingerprint scanner that will only unlock if the person’s fingers have evidence of using an iPod shuffle to listen to the song “Kiss Me Thru the Phone” by Soulja Boy.

I met Rosemary in February 2016 in Berlin, where we inaugurated DiEM25. After weeks of frantic emailing, in which she had made clear her determination to be part of our pan-European movement from its beginning to her very last breath (as it turned out), I first held her hand in mine fittingly in the Red […]

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An analysis compares the number of terrorism incidents in developing economies with those in advanced economies since 1970 and over the post-9/11 period.