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Victims from Iran's uprisings are remembered at a vigil in Paris on Jan. 18, 2026. (Siavosh Hosseini/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The new Iranian revolution isn't over

Farshad Askari
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 26, 2025. (Photo by Krishan Kariyawasam/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"No justification" for drug boat strikes

Troy Farah
In this handout photo provided by the Salvadoran government, members of the Salvadoran army stand guard at the gates of the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) at CECOT on March 16, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (Salvadoran Government via Getty Images)

Where immigrants are sent to "disappear"

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Abortion rights activists demonstrate in front of the National Assembly building in Quito on December 9, 2021. (RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP via Getty Images)

Latin America's global abortion impacts

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Demonstrators protest and argue outside the U.S. Supreme Court, March 26, 2024. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Abortion bans are a human rights crisis

Nicole Karlis
Members of Swiss association Senior Women for Climate Protection react after the announcement of decisions after a hearing of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to decide in three separate cases if states are doing enough in the face of global warming in rulings that could force them to do more, in Strasbourg, eastern France, on April 9, 2024. (FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Swiss seniors win landmark climate case

Matthew Rozsa
Signage can be seen at Hyde Park on June 09, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. The march was organised by a Sydney high school student in response to Alabama's new abortion laws in the US. (Don Arnold/Getty Images)

Abortion bans limit patient autonomy

Nicole Karlis
US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agents simulate a raid in their Tactical Training Facility, part of the new National Clandestine Laboratory Training and Research Facility December 5, 2008 at the DEA Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia. (TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s time to admit the drug war is over

Troy Farah
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Thousands of abortion-rights activists gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court after the Court announced a ruling in the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization case on June 24, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Muddled abortion laws confuse doctors

Heidi Fantasia - The Conversation
Surgeons in Scrubs and Protective Masks Look Down at a Patient on a Hospital Trolley (Getty Images/Janie Airey)

Medical debt is a human rights violation

Noam N. Levey - KFF Health News
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's terrifying emails offer a clue

Chauncey DeVega
Homes along Gross Loop off of KY-15 are flooded with water from the North Fork of the Kentucky River. (Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Weather alerts become a lifesaver

Anya Slepyan, Claire Carlson - Grist
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The Sami flag (C) is seen as police carry a Sami activist away, during a protest at the entrance of Norway's Ministery of Finance, in Oslo, on March 2, 2023. - On February 28, 2023, climate activist Greta Thunberg and dozens of indigenous Sami activists expanded a protest against contested wind turbines in Norway by blocking entrances to several government ministries. (OLIVIER MORIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Sámi demonstrators end wind farm protest

Elisabeth Rasmussen - Grist
President Jimmy Carter and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt at a summit of industrialized nations in London, May 8, 1977. (Photo by Pool SIMON/UZAN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy

Robert C. Donnelly - The Conversation
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When fishing boats go "dark"

Heather Welch - The Conversation
Afghan army commandos stand on a sand bank as a US Apache helicopter flies above on February 24, 2010. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP via Getty Images)

CIA keeps working with abusive forces

Lynzy Billing - ProPublica
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A mosaic made of thousands of photographs of the workers who built the World Cup stadium in Lusail, Qatar, decorates the stadium’s exterior. (GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)

Qatar 2022 WTF: How did we get here?

Andrew O'Hehir
Steven Donziger is seen as "Free Donziger" rally held in front of the Manhattan Court House as the Attorney Steven Donziger faces sentencing in contempt case in New York City, United States on October 1, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Lawyer who took on Chevron finally free

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Bob Stefanowski (Bob Stefanowski Official Campaign)

Conn. GOP candidate tied to dirty money

Igor Derysh
Syrian Kurdish refugees walk with their belongings after crossing into Turkey from the Syrian border town of Kobani on September 26, 2014 near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Turkey. (Stringer/Getty Images)

Climate, violence displacing 84 million

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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Tigrayan refugee girl in Um Rakuba, Sudan. (Photographed by Jonathan Hutson)

Exclusive: Tigrayan kids held in camps

Jonathan Hutson
Syrian Kurdish refugees walk with their belongings after crossing into Turkey from the Syrian border town of Kobani on September 26, 2014 near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Turkey. (Stringer/Getty Images)

Our hypocrisy on "human rights"

Elayne Clift
Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (Getty Images)

A battle over female genital mutilation

Ruchi Kumar - Undark
A collapsed bridge in Mexico Beach, Florida on October 12, 2018, two days after Hurricane Michael struck. (Charlotte Kesl for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Why the U.S. needs new infrastructure

Tom Conway - Independent Media Institute
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