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Israel announced on Sunday that it is reinstating its blockade of basic resources into Gaza.

Sterling Misanin, 32, had waited six months for his gender-affirming procedure to be scheduled and pre-authorized by his insurance company. Last June, the long-awaited appointment was finally on the horizon — or so he thought. Four days before his scheduled hysterectomy, Misanin received a call from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), informing him…

As the oil company Energy Transfer sues Greenpeace over the 2016 Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, we speak with Indigenous activist Winona LaDuke, who took part in that historic uprising. LaDuke is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabe who lives and works on the White Earth Nation Reservation and…

Moms for Liberty, a far right organization that advocates against lessons on LGBTQ rights and racial justice in schools, has announced its next target: restorative justice programs that address student misconduct through mediation and relationship building, rather than traditional punishment structures. Since its inception in 2021, Moms for Liberty has been on the frontlines of…

In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what might be called, to borrow the title of a famed William Butler Yeats’s poem, “The Second Coming” of Donald J. Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all. “We will restore…

President Donald Trump late Monday ordered a suspension of all American military assistance to Ukraine after his conduct in a televised meeting with the war-torn country’s president in the Oval Office last week sparked international dismay and outrage. Trump’s decision reportedly impacts over $1 billion worth of weaponry and ammunition that was set to be…

President Donald Trump’s environmental regulators are advancing a proposal to block states from warning consumers about herbicides and other agricultural products in their food, according to federal documents reviewed by The Lever. Among the substances that could now go undisclosed is a widely used chemical that some studies have linked to cancer and that Trump’s…