Gaza’s famine is now official. What does that change?
The hunger crisis in Gaza reached another grim milestone on Friday when the world’s leading hunger watchdog confirmed that a famine is taking place within the enclave, amid Israel’s ongoing…
Brit teen, 15, fighting for life in Portugal after he’s found unconscious in pool
A British teenage tourist is said to be fighting for his life after being found floating unconscious in a swimming pool in northern Portugal. The unnamed 15-year-old is understood to…
Holocaust survivors demand Israel stop starving Gaza children as famine declared
‘As survivors of the Holocaust and Jews who escaped the Nazis we cannot remain silent as hunger and deprivation threaten the lives of civilians in Gaza,’ signatories say 19:37, 22…
Canada removes some of its retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney listens while touring the Royal Canadian Navy torpedo recovery vessel Sikanni at the Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental and Test Ranges, in Nanoose Bay, British Columbia,…
Yes, Texas Representative Nicole Collier Was Under “House Arrest” in the Capitol
Politics / Q&A / August 22, 2025 Collier speaks about her surreal ordeal, wherein she refused to sign a permission slip and accept a police escort to leave the Austin…
Manhattan Alcatraz
In this moment of crisis, we need a unified, progressive opposition to Donald Trump. We’re starting to see one take shape in the streets and at ballot boxes across the…
Democrats Need to Stop Letting Trump Set the Terms of Engagement
Politics / August 22, 2025 With every White House action, from mass deportation to domestic deployment of federal troops the “opposition party” has accepted the premise and failed to offer…
Trump Is Astonishingly Deluded About Putin
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Shortly after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December…
You Might Be Shocked Which State Is Prosecuting a Stillbirth as a Murder
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Many Americans assume that the criminalization of pregnancy is…
The Smithsonian Is Already Giving In to Trump. It Won’t Save Them.
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Back when Masum Momaya was a curator at the…