Airlines Are Trying to Weaken a New Safety Inspection Rule
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/boeing-airline-safety-regulations-trump/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/boeing-airline-safety-regulations-trump/
Jacobin
Airlines Are Trying to Weaken a New Safety Inspection Rule
The airline industry is lobbying to weaken a new safety rule that would force airlines to address serious flaws in potentially thousands of Boeing planes. They have industry-connected allies in the Trump administration who could help them get their way.
How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/mamdani-nyc-mayor-labor-dsa/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/mamdani-nyc-mayor-labor-dsa/
Jacobin
How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
If Zohran Mamdani wins, he will face fierce resistance from business elites and the political establishment. Unions and grassroots member organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America can play a key role in helping him overcome this opposition.
ICE’s Private Prison Contractor Is Hoping to Get Blanket Immunity
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/human-trafficking-geo-prisons-scotus/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/human-trafficking-geo-prisons-scotus/
Jacobin
ICE’s Private Prison Contractor Is Hoping to Get Blanket Immunity
After being sued for violating state-level human trafficking laws, GEO Group, the nation’s largest private prison company, is pushing the Supreme Court to grant private government contractors like itself blanket immunity from such lawsuits.
We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will
ProPublica
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
The Profound Shame of JD Vance
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jd-vance-young-republicans-telegram-chat/
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jd-vance-young-republicans-telegram-chat/
The Nation
The Profound Shame of JD Vance
Trump’s lapdog defends racist Young Republicans as “boys,” while some are almost his age—as they slur Indian women, like his wife, Usha, as “dirty.” How much did he get for his soul?
Israel’s Wreaking of Devastation From the Sky Is Vintage Colonialism
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-aerial-bombing-colonialism/
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-aerial-bombing-colonialism/
The Nation
Israel’s Wreaking of Devastation From the Sky Is Vintage Colonialism
The use of airpower to try to subdue or at least curb Middle Easterners is, in fact, more than a century old.
The Right Is Lying About Left-Wing Violence
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/left-wing-violence-myths-protest/
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/left-wing-violence-myths-protest/
The Nation
The Right Is Lying About Left-Wing Violence
The Trump administration is using an imagined enemy—“antifa”—to justify turning ICE into an ultra-violent, unaccountable army invading US cities.
Letter to the Editor From Representative Steve Cohen
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/letter-to-the-editor-from-representative-steve-cohen/
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/letter-to-the-editor-from-representative-steve-cohen/
The Nation
Letter to the Editor From Representative Steve Cohen
The Democratic congressman from Tennessee takes issue with our article about his primary opponent.
WaPo Says ‘Hard Math’ Means Europe Must Lower Its Quality of Life
https://fair.org/home/wapo-says-hard-math-means-europe-must-lower-its-quality-of-life/
https://fair.org/home/wapo-says-hard-math-means-europe-must-lower-its-quality-of-life/
FAIR
WaPo Says ‘Hard Math’ Means Europe Must Lower Its Quality of Life
The idea that France may not be able to afford its social spending is a fantasy Washington Post reporters are presenting to their readers as fact.
High Court weighs decision that could silence Black voters Nationwide
https://mronline.org/2025/10/16/high-court-weighs-decision-that-could-silence-black-voters-nationwide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=high-court-weighs-decision-that-could-silence-black-voters-nationwide
https://mronline.org/2025/10/16/high-court-weighs-decision-that-could-silence-black-voters-nationwide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=high-court-weighs-decision-that-could-silence-black-voters-nationwide
MR Online
High Court weighs decision that could silence Black voters Nationwide | MR Online
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a case that could decide the future of voting rights in America.
Architecture of Cities: Mapping Beauty 7
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/architecture-of-cities-mapping-beauty-7/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/architecture-of-cities-mapping-beauty-7/
CounterPunch.org
Architecture of Cities: Mapping Beauty 7
The invented Eyries: If I could imagine Darwinian adventures- -and Darwin’s minds’ eyes- -Then just possibly all of his discovered genetic unions across
NATO’s Nuclear Threats on Parade
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/natos-nuclear-threats-on-parade/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/natos-nuclear-threats-on-parade/
CounterPunch.org
NATO’s Nuclear Threats on Parade
NATO’s standing threat to attack Russia with nuclear weapons is put on parade every autumn. This year’s thermonuclear dry run⸺dubbed Steadfast Noon⸺got
RIP NEPA: Don’t Mourn NEPA’s Death, Replace It With Something Stronger
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/rip-nepa-dont-mourn-nepas-death-replace-it-with-something-stronger/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/rip-nepa-dont-mourn-nepas-death-replace-it-with-something-stronger/
CounterPunch.org
RIP NEPA: Don’t Mourn NEPA’s Death, Replace It With Something Stronger
Our leaders are letting the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) die. But, maybe that’s okay. It’s time for a National
Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/imperial-double-standards-warfare-for-venezuela-and-welfare-for-argentina/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/imperial-double-standards-warfare-for-venezuela-and-welfare-for-argentina/
CounterPunch.org
Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents
The Case of the Disappearing Jobs Report
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/the-case-of-the-disappearing-jobs-report/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/the-case-of-the-disappearing-jobs-report/
CounterPunch.org
The Case of the Disappearing Jobs Report
One of the first casualties of the federal government shutdown was a much-anticipated jobs report that should have been released on October 3. There were
Wounded Nostalgia: GQ Tips for the Modern Gentleman
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/wounded-nostalgia-gq-tips-for-the-modern-gentleman/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/wounded-nostalgia-gq-tips-for-the-modern-gentleman/
CounterPunch.org
Wounded Nostalgia: GQ Tips for the Modern Gentleman
It reads like a lament of wounded nostalgia, cresting on a resigned sigh. “Knowing how to be a gentleman used to be straightforward: There were codes
