Burning Forests: Tools for Tracking and Reporting Wildfire Damage
If you’ve seen reports of a wildfire in your region and you’re looking for open source data, NASA’s fire-tracking tool is often the first place to start.
Two-Thirds of Shri Thanedar's Campaign Cash Came Through AIPAC as He Lost Over $600K
AIPAC bundlers have propped up the Michigan congressman, who has invested millions in campaign funds in crypto.
Objective co-directors win the 2026 AAJA Award for Leadership in Diversity & Solidarity
One of the Asian American Journalists Association's Community Awards, the honor recognizes a commitment to the AAPI journalist community and to AAJA's goals of diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging.
Lauren Bonds on ICE Murders
The focus seems heavy on the notion that we need to "humanize" the victims of racist state violence, rather than challenge the humanity of those who enact it.
My Nipsey Hussles: the importance of Black haircare in prison
For incarcerated Black women, the ability to do our hair nicely on special occasions provides a crucial agency that is stripped from us in many other aspects of our lives My Nipsey Hussles: the …
On the Economic Crisis of Capitalism
Considering the “Structural Crisis of Capital” from the perspective of economics, Prabhat Patnaik sheds light on two major aspects that have risen to prominence in our current conjuncture.
Manufacturing Revolt
In April, a wave of strikes swept through the National Capital Region around Delhi.
Organizing as Ancestral Practice: Building Infrastructure for the Next Era of Movements
All social movements need infrastructure capable of sustaining across multi-generational fights. But.
Renewables, ‘Electrostates’, and other Myths of the Green Transition
Adam Hanieh breaks down the Energy Institute's 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, an annual report on global energy trade, production and usage.
What is Critical Legal Theory?
All are invited to an online talk by me, Gilbert Leung, on 24 July 2026 at 11:00 CEST | 10:00 BST, in which I will attempt to answer the question: ‘What is critical legal theory?
Rochester Transit Workers “Cautiously Optimistic” About Non-Renewal of Transdev’s Contract
On July 6, Rochester, Minn. City Council voted unanimously to award Via Transportation with a contract to manage Rochester Public Transit (RPT)—replacing Transdev, the former management company.
Canadian Gas CEOs Are Hyping AI Data Centres to Investors as a Lifeline for Their Industry
Investor call transcripts show that gas companies see the data centre build-out as their next growth sector, even as the energy transition accelerates.
Remembering Lindsey Graham Not for the Evil He Did But for the Fun He Had Doing It
Corporate media's elegiac coverage didn't just whitewash Lindsey Graham's record—it illustrated the affinity and symbiosis between him and the press corps.
The Attention Economy Navigator, July 2026
This month on the Attention Economy Navigator, our guide to what you should be paying more attention to, and what you can probably pay less attention to.
Between Graves and Uncertainty: The Management of the Dead After Venezuela’s Earthquake
Bellingcat has geolocated footage circulating on social media that appears to show coffins placed in newly dug trenches following the recent deadly earthquakes in Venezuela.
ICE and DHS’s Growing Record of Deception
Earlier this month, ICE agents in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican man who had lived in the United States for 35 years.
Will Congress Ban ‘Mud Dumping’ in Mobile Bay?
For decades, fishers, swimmers and environmental groups have complained that mud and silt from dredging operations in the Mobile Bay shipping channel have been smothering seagrasses, choking out …
Long Island Audit confronted a powerful police union. They made him pay for it.
Why did “asking questions about tax dollars” turn into a retaliatory arrest, a pinched nerve, a towed truck, and a criminal trespass charge that may not even hold up under New York law.
