Can Anyone Stop Trump's Border Wall?
Dror Ladin, The Atlantic
Ladin writes: "On Friday, when the Supreme Court temporarily allowed the Trump administration to begin construction of his border wall using up to .5 billion in military funds that Congress had denied, President Donald Trump declared a 'big victory.'"
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Dror Ladin, The Atlantic
Ladin writes: "On Friday, when the Supreme Court temporarily allowed the Trump administration to begin construction of his border wall using up to .5 billion in military funds that Congress had denied, President Donald Trump declared a 'big victory.'"
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Rep. Ilhan Omar. (photo: Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)
Why the Right Hates Ilhan Omar
Branko Marcetic, Jacobin
Marcetic writes: "The Right hates Ilhan Omar - but not just out of racism. They know she's a threat because she fights for workers of all races and creeds."
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Branko Marcetic, Jacobin
Marcetic writes: "The Right hates Ilhan Omar - but not just out of racism. They know she's a threat because she fights for workers of all races and creeds."
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About two dozen detainees were escorted across a courtyard by contract security guards. Blue uniforms are worn by detainees with no criminal history. Orange uniforms are for inmates previously arrested in the U.S. (photo: Jesse Seidman/VICE)
We Got Cameras Inside One of the Biggest ICE Detention Centers. This Is What We Saw.
Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jesse Seidman and Roberto Daza, VICE
Excerpt: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement opened the doors to one of its largest immigrant detention facilities, letting cameras in for the first time."
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Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jesse Seidman and Roberto Daza, VICE
Excerpt: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement opened the doors to one of its largest immigrant detention facilities, letting cameras in for the first time."
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The Afghan government and its allies were responsible for the majority of civilian deaths between Jan. 1 and June 30. (photo: CA-News)
Responsibility for Mounting Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan Pinned on US-Backed Forces
Ali M. Latifi, ThinkProgress
Latifi writes: "Last week, the United Nations released its second report this year on civilian casualties in the ongoing war in Afghanistan."
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Ali M. Latifi, ThinkProgress
Latifi writes: "Last week, the United Nations released its second report this year on civilian casualties in the ongoing war in Afghanistan."
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Twitter. (photo: Getty Images)
Twitter Under Fire Again for Failing to Ban White Supremacists as Charlottesville Anniversary Nears
Dell Cameron, Gizmodo
Cameron writes: "With the anniversary of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, approaching, Twitter is facing increased pressure from a nationwide coalition of civil rights organizations to once and for all take a stand against the white supremacists that operate freely on its platform."
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Dell Cameron, Gizmodo
Cameron writes: "With the anniversary of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, approaching, Twitter is facing increased pressure from a nationwide coalition of civil rights organizations to once and for all take a stand against the white supremacists that operate freely on its platform."
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In this June 19, 2019 photo, Parsa Amini, a 5-year-old boy suffering from eye cancer, speaks with his mother at Mahak Center's Hospital, in Tehran, Iran. From imported chemo and other medicines to those made domestically, many Iranians blame shortages on U.S. sanctions. (photo: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
Iranians Complain Trump's Sanctions Are Blocking Access to Vital Medicine
Mohammad Nasiri, Associated Press
Nasiri writes: "Taha Shakouri keeps finding remote corners to play in at a Tehran children's charity hospital, unaware that his doctors are running out of chemo medicine needed to treat the eight-year-old boy's liver cancer."
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Mohammad Nasiri, Associated Press
Nasiri writes: "Taha Shakouri keeps finding remote corners to play in at a Tehran children's charity hospital, unaware that his doctors are running out of chemo medicine needed to treat the eight-year-old boy's liver cancer."
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A right whale and a diver. (photo: Brian Skerry/National Geographic)
Two Percent of the World's North Atlantic Right Whales Have Died in the Last Two Months
Amanda Coletta, The Washington Post
Coletta writes: "A Canadian surveillance plane was scanning the waters of Gulf of St. Lawrence when it made a grisly discovery: The carcass of a North Atlantic right whale, one of some 400 remaining in the world, was drifting in the current, much of its skin sloughed off."
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Amanda Coletta, The Washington Post
Coletta writes: "A Canadian surveillance plane was scanning the waters of Gulf of St. Lawrence when it made a grisly discovery: The carcass of a North Atlantic right whale, one of some 400 remaining in the world, was drifting in the current, much of its skin sloughed off."
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