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[ad_1] This week, journalist and author Dave Zirin joins Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank to discuss his new biography of the late, great Howard Zinn. The book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, chronicles the inspiring life of one of our greatest radical historians. Dave is embarking on a national tour in support of the book; find out if he’ll be in a city near you. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has said that military strikes around the Strait of Hormuz are not effective. The top US commander in the Middle East, Admiral Brad Cooper, has advised US President Donald Trump that the designated bombing targets in the area had largely been exhausted. Cooper added that there was no point in continuing the strikes unless the US returned to major combat operations, according to Axios.  This advice has allegedly impacted President Trump’s decision on Friday to pause US strikes against Iran, the sources said. Trump paused the strikes on Friday, abruptly ending a 13-day bombing campaign amid reports that…

[ad_1] In this episode of The Sowell Legacy, Justice Clarence Thomas joins Peter Robinson for a wide-ranging conversation about the thinker who transformed his life. Justice Thomas recounts discovering Thomas Sowell’s work as a young lawyer, the friendship that followed, and the lessons in self-reliance, honesty, and intellectual independence that shaped his own journey—from segregated Georgia to the US Supreme Court. Together, they explore race, education, constitutionalism, courage in public life, and why Sowell’s ideas continue to resonate with rising generations. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Missiles in the air, oil markets on edge, and a White House that still can’t answer the simplest question: what’s the plan? We start with reporting from foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on US forces having only minutes to intercept incoming Iranian ballistic missiles, then I lay out why “shock” at Iranian retaliation doesn’t make sense in a war the US chose to escalate. When leaders talk like this is a surprise, it’s usually a cover for something else: drift, misreads, or a narrative meant to keep the public on board. From there, I get into Trump’s increasingly volatile rhetoric…

[ad_1] From Doe v. Simons, decided July 29 by Judge Nicholas Ranjan (W.D. Pa.): Plaintiff John Doe has moved to proceed under a pseudonym. Doe advances three main bases for anonymity: his mental illness; that requiring him to litigate under his own name would deter him, and similarly situated individuals, from pursuing litigation; and that his HIPAA-protected medical records would become public…. Doe has not shown that he faces a reasonable fear of severe harm. Doe’s case appears to be a straightforward employment-discrimination case. And where plaintiffs allege a fear of severe harm (namely heightened mental illness symptoms and stigma)…

[ad_1] The plan for Ohio: Rep. Max Miller (R–Ohio) is a former White House aide with the Trump administration who is running for reelection amid serious allegations that he abused his wife and daughter. Democrats see his opponent Brian Poindexter, a union ironworker also running for Congress, as a “red to blue” candidate and have put him on that list, drawing extra fundraising and support. They believe Poindexter, a Democrat, has the opportunity to flip this district (Ohio’s 7th) for them, and that Miller is a weak enough candidate (with the deadline for dropping out of the race having already passed)…

[ad_1] 18/08/2025. Washington D.C., United States. Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets Ukraine President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Alexander Stubb, President of Finland, Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission ahead of a meeting with US President Donald Trump where they will discuss the future of Ukraine at the White House. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street President Volodymyr Zelensky said that seven Ukrainians were killed by a Russian attack that used North Korean missiles.  “Emergency response efforts have been ongoing since last night to deal…

[ad_1] In signing an executive order about childhood vaccines, President Donald Trump falsely suggested that the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine was unsafe and that splitting up the combination shot would reduce the number of children with autism. There’s no evidence for those claims, and the vaccine has been well-studied for several decades. Together with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he also repeated many other falsehoods we’ve fact-checked before about vaccines. We wrote about those in another article. On Aug. 10, Trump signed the executive order aiming to overhaul childhood vaccination in the U.S.…

[ad_1] From Judge Kelley Hodge (E.D. Pa.) Friday in Duncan v. Lett (see also this February post that discusses a related New York case stemming from the same incident): Both Plaintiff [Dustin Duncan] and Defendant [Elle Lett] work in academia on transgender health issues. Specifically, during the events leading up to this lawsuit and at the time this action was filed, Plaintiff was an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University who conducted “predominantly … intersectional and health equity-based research focusing on Black gay, bisexual and other sexual minority men and transgender women of color using a social and spatial…

[ad_1] On Monday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled a new federal rule to crack down on food additives in an attempt to fulfil his promise to “Make America Healthy Again.” The rule would close the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) loophole, which allows companies to self-certify that certain food ingredients are safe—and thus can be added to products—without strict government oversight. Under the new rule, companies would be required to notify the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when they make a GRAS determination and explain why they made that decision. While manufacturers would not need…