Headlines for August 30, 2024; From Decriminalization to Border Crackdown, Harris Defends Hard-Line Shift in 1st Interview as Nominee; No Policy Change: In CNN Interview, Harris Refuses to Condition U.S. Military Support for Israel; “Opportunity Economy”: Kamala Harris Promotes Expanded Child Tax Credit, Regulating Price Gouging; No Ban on Fracking: Kamala Harris Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels in Shift from 2019; “Master Plan”: New Lever Podcast Series Traces How Oligarchs “Legalized Corruption” in U.S.

Headlines for August 29, 2024; Report from Gaza: Israel Kills Dozens More, Increases Forced Evacuations, Attacks Aid Truck; “They Want Palestine Empty”: Artist in Jenin Blasts U.S. Support for Israel Amid West Bank Assault; “Gender Apartheid”: Taliban Approves Law in Afghanistan Requiring Women Remain Silent in Public; Warnings of Nuclear Catastrophe as Power Plants in Russia and Ukraine at Risk Amid Escalating War

Headlines for August 28, 2024; “Trying to Repeat the Nakba”: Israel Launches Largest Military Raids in West Bank in Two Decades; “Five-Alarm Fire for Democracy”: New GOP Rules Could Block Election Results in Georgia and Beyond; Latino Rights Groups Urge DOJ to Investigate TX Attorney General for Raiding Homes of LULAC Leaders

Headlines for August 27, 2024; Palestinian Healthcare Workers Chained, Starved, Sexually Abused: New HRW Report on Israeli Prisons; What Is RealPage? DOJ Sues Software Firm Using Algorithm Enabling Landlords to Fix High Rents

Headlines for August 26, 2024; “Colonial Process”: How U.S.-Led Ceasefire Talks Are Latest Erasure of Roots of Arab-Israeli Conflict; “How Many More?” Attorney Ben Crump on Latest in Breonna Taylor, Tyre Nichols & Roger Fortson Cases; Trump Wanted Them Dead: Exonerated Central Park 5 Speak at DNC & Fight to Defeat Trump

Headlines for August 23, 2024; “Historic Moment”: Barbara Ransby on the Symbolism & Shortcomings of Kamala Harris’s Nomination; Watch: Palestinian American Lawmaker Gives Speech the DNC Wouldn’t Allow on Stage; Thousands March Against U.S. Arming of Israel as Harris Accepts Presidential Nomination; How Shirley Chisholm & Fannie Lou Hamer Paved the Way for Kamala Harris; “Two Faces of American Capitalism”: Juan González on What the RNC & DNC Reveal About U.S. Politics; “A Generational Fight”: Political Organizers on Kamala Harris, Defeating Authoritarianism & More; “A Testament to Our Power”: Chicago’s Little Palestine Resists Racism, Disenfranchisement & War; “We Have to Push”: Congressmember Greg Casar on Bringing Progressivism Back to Immigration Policy

Headlines for August 22, 2024; Uncommitted Delegates Launch Sit-In After DNC Rejects Request for a Palestinian Speaker at Convention; Tim Walz Accepts VP Nomination; A Look at His Record on George Floyd Murder, IVF, Guns and Gaza; “Stop Sending Bombs”: Rep. Ilhan Omar Visits Uncommitted Sit-In & Demands Israeli Arms Embargo; Uncommitted Delegates Speak Out After Sleeping Outside DNC to Protest Silencing of Palestinian Voices; “So Horrific”: Doctor Recounts Treating Patients in Gaza Injured in Massacres Enabled by U.S. Bombs; Climate Crisis & Election Roundtable: From Tim Walz’s Record to Project 2025 to Israel

Headlines for August 21, 2024; As Gaza War Is Largely Ignored on DNC Stage, Doubts Grow over Blinken’s Claims on Ceasefire Talks; Trump & Harris Each Vow Border Crackdowns as Immigrant Communities Demand Positive Change; At DNC, Michelle & Barack Obama Champion Kamala Harris While Skewering Trump’s “Same Old Con”; The Fight over Abortion Rights Is a “Tipping Point for Our Democracy”: Michele Goodwin; What I Saw Was “Unfathomable”: Doctor Who Worked in Gaza Speaks Out Against U.S. Arming of Israel; Andy Levin, Pushed Out of Congress by AIPAC, Calls for Change in U.S.-Israel Policy

Headlines for August 20, 2024; Thousands March on DNC in Chicago to Demand End to War on Gaza; First-Ever DNC Panel on Palestinian Rights: We Need to “Restore the Soul of the Democratic Party”; Remembering TV Icon Phil Donahue: He Brought Antiwar Voices to the Airwaves Until MSNBC Fired Him; “Donald Trump Is a Scab”: UAW President Shawn Fain Hails Kamala Harris & Attacks Corporate Greed; Chicago Is a Labor Town: Teachers Union President and In These Times Editor on Organizing for Change; Muslim, Immigrant & Jewish Delegates Unfurl “Stop Arming Israel” Banner During Biden DNC Speech

Headlines for August 19, 2024; “It’s the Democratic Party’s War”: Gaza Protests Planned Throughout Week as DNC Begins in Chicago; Vietnam Then, Gaza Now: Bill Ayers & Juan González on 1968 and 2024 Antiwar Protests at Chicago DNC; Rev. Al Sharpton: Jesse Jackson Helped Reshape Democratic Party & Paved Way for Kamala Harris; Voices from the Streets of Chicago: DNC Protesters Call for Gaza Ceasefire & Economic Justice; Kamala Harris Is Reaching Out to Arab American Leaders, But Will There Be Any Change in Gaza Policy?; The Exonerated: Meet Two Chicago Men Wrongly Imprisoned for Decades, on Police Torture, Death Row & More; Phil Donahue, Legendary Talk Show Host Fired by MSNBC for Airing Antiwar Views, Dies at 88