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Video: Can Kamala Harris Find Voters In Dearborn?

"People here have families that are originally from the exact towns and villages that are being bombed with American weapons."

Afeef Nessouli

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Pro-Palestine Student Activists at HBCUs Are Divided on How to Vote

In North Carolina and Georgia, some say they are casting a vote to save our democracy while others say they are withholding theirs to save the world.

Alexis Wray

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It's Not Too Late for Kamala Harris to Earn Votes Like Mine

Harris can win thousands of votes across the country, including in key swing states, by calling for an arms embargo.

Saqib Bhatti

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Uncommitted Co-Founder Says Trump Is "Preying on the Pain of Arab and Muslim American Voters"

Abbas Alawieh says he will vote for Harris "as a Democratic strategist and as someone who’s in a swing state," but is "still terrified by the vacuum that she’s leaving."

In These Times Staff

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Project for the Old American Century

What Harris’ embrace of the Cheneys tells us about Democrats’ worldview.

Alberto Toscano

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“The Children,” James Baldwin Wrote, “Are Always Ours, Every Single One of Them"

Saqib Bhatti laments the unbearable task of parenting during genocide—from the United States to Gaza.

Saqib Bhatti

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Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Challenging the Cognitive Dissonance of Pro-Israel Liberalism

Coates is taking critiques of Zionism into the mainstream, chipping away at Israel’s increasingly dubious liberal self-image.

Adam Johnson

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Eric Adams Allegedly Took Bribes to Erase the Genocide That Killed My Ancestors

The mayor’s silence on the Armenian genocide mirrors his refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Jesse Hagopian

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Black-Palestinian Solidarity in Moments of Crisis and Beyond

A year into Israel's war in Gaza, four activists working at the intersection of Black and Palestinian liberation discuss the genocide, the upcoming U.S. election and the power of international solidarity.

Nashwa Bawab

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School Curriculum Supports the Genocide. Here’s How Teachers Can Push Back.

Bill Bigelow

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What Happened to Protest Music?

The success of Macklemore's "Hind's Hall" offers hope for a resurgence of protest music.

Ivie Ani

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Poetry Against Imperialism

Mosab Abu Toha, Safia Elhillo, José Olivarez and Jake Skeets discuss the power of poetry in genocidal times.

Porsha Olayiwola

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A Fateful Year: How It Feels to Lose Gaza

A year after October 7, In These Times contributor Yousef Aljamal reflects on the complete destruction of Gaza and the deaths of so many friends and family members.

Yousef Aljamal

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A SWANA Space to Exist

As we pass one year of genocide, Salon Kawakib will not be silenced and we will celebrate our own anniversary: two years of cultural organizing and building community in Chicago.

Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

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U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of Anti-Zionists

A months-long investigation found even the smallest hints of dissent are often met with unemployment.

Shane Burley

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June Jordan on Palestine and American Delusions

In these excerpts of "Life After Lebanon" and "Waking Up in the Middle of Some American Dreams," June Jordan insists on the ever-present need for coalition building across difference.

Sherell Barbee and June Jordan

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"We Can’t Arrest Our Way to Liberation"

After the Palestinian Nabala Cafe was attacked, owner Eyad Zeid decided not to turn to police. Instead, he found strength and support in community.

Eyad Zeid

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New York Times Repeats U.S. Government’s Evidence-Free Claim That Gaza Protests Are Part of Iranian Plot

Where is the actual evidence that Iranian operatives “posing as students” are helping organize and fund campus protests over the war on Gaza?

Adam Johnson

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The Right Is Increasingly Exploiting the Horror of Genocide

Right-wing operatives are channeling the genocide in Gaza into mainstream antisemitism.

Ben Lorber

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Displaced in Gaza: Dispatches

We share their dreams and aspirations, to tell them that there will be a day when the Palestinian people will live in freedom and dignity.

Yousef Aljamal

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The Democratic Convention Failed the Palestine Movement

The Uncommitted movement made modest demands on the Democratic Party toward ending the agony in Gaza, and the party rejected them. But their demands cannot be ignored by Democratic power brokers forever.

Hadas Thier

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Spurned by the DNC, the Uncommitted Movement Staged a Sit-in

The Democratic Party refused the request to allow a short, vetted speech by a Palestinian on the main stage.

Eman Abdelhadi

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Genocide and the English Language

The disjunction between our political language and political reality reveals the vacuum of thought in the U.S. foreign policy establishment.

Alberto Toscano

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It's Not a Question. To Win in November, Harris Needs to Break From Biden and Trump on Gaza.

Harris must immediately break from disastrous policies that put the demands of warmongers and war profiteers over human rights and justice.

Ramah Kudaimi