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Frank Deale
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Professor of Law, Cuny Law School; former Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights. Organizational affiliations listed for identification purposes only.
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Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers www.972mag.com/israeli-emig...
Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers
Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.
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January 25, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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The Legality of Deadly Force: Three Critical Questions about the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis: verdict.justia.com/2026/01/09/t...
The Legality of Deadly Force: Three Critical Questions about the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
University of South Carolina, Joseph F. Rice School of Law professor Seth W. Stoughton discusses the legal standards and critical factual questions surrounding the use of deadly force by a federal ICE...
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January 24, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Tariq Ali, Abduction in Caracas — Sidecar newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Tariq Ali, Abduction in Caracas — Sidecar
What happens next?
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January 24, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Over 400,000 Transgender People Have Moved States Since Trump's Election
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Over 400,000 Transgender People Have Moved States Since Trump's Election
The large migration builds on earlier movements of transgender people in response to anti-transgender legislation.
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January 23, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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Olga Cherevko Showed the World What's Happening in Gaza. Israel Won't Let Her Return - Israel News www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
She showed the world what's happening in Gaza. Israel won't let her return
Olga Cherevko Grew Up on Military Bases in Siberia, Belonged to a Christian Cult in the U.S. and Was Sent by the UN to Some of the Toughest Places in the World. None of That Prepared Her for What She ...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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With the Attack on Venezuela, Trump Has Put the Death of International Law in Plain Sight - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/03/w...
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January 19, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Is the Post Office About to Decide the 2026 Midterms?
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Is the Post Office About to Decide the 2026 Midterms?
A quiet USPS postmark change could turn “on time” ballots into “too late” ballots by the millions…
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January 18, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Federal District Judges Are the Heroes of 2025: verdict.justia.com/2026/01/02/f...
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January 18, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Notes on New York
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Notes on New York
The Big Apple had a pretty good 2025, but …
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January 18, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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Save Humphrey’s Executor. Save the Supreme Court (Sort Of) | Washington Monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/02/s...
Save Humphrey’s Executor. Save the Supreme Court (Sort Of)
Overturning Humphrey’s Executor would gut independent agencies. The Supreme Court still has a principled way out.
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January 18, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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If you can't stand the heat, wait a few months for the weather to change
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If you can't stand the heat, wait a few months for the weather to change
A tale of a right-wing congresswoman, a university chancellor, and a lawyer that could
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January 17, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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The Palestine Exception to Free Speech Rarely Ends with Palestine
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The Palestine Exception to Free Speech Rarely Ends with Palestine
Making Sense of Bari Weiss’ Actions at CBS News
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January 16, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Vaccine policy, class and the erosion of public health protection: An interview with legal scholar Dorit Reiss - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Vaccine policy, class and the erosion of public health protection: An interview with legal scholar Dorit Reiss
This interview is the second extended discussion between Professor Reiss and the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> examining the accelerating assault on vaccines and public health in the United States...
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January 16, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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Mandatory vaccination and democratic rights: An interview with law professor Dorit Reiss - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Mandatory vaccination and democratic rights: An interview with law professor Dorit Reiss
Dorit Reiss is a law professor specializing in the legality and necessity of school vaccine mandates.
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January 16, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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The Martin Luther King Center in Cuba: Immersed in the World and the Revolution - MR Online mronline.org/2025/12/17/t...
The Martin Luther King Center in Cuba: Immersed in the World and the Revolution - MR Online
Over the years, the Center has trained thousands of popular educators. Marilín explains how the educators often find themselves in complex situations. “The Christians see us as communists, and the com...
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January 15, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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When the USSR and China saved humanity: How they won the World Anti-Fascist War
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When the USSR and China saved humanity: How they won the World Anti-Fascist War
It was the Soviet Union and China that defeated fascism in WWII. Their heroic contribution was later erased by the West. In the First Cold War, the US recruited former Nazis.
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January 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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The Trump administration’s biggest impact on education in 2025 hechingerreport.org/how-educatio...
The Trump administration’s biggest impact on education in 2025
It was almost impossible for the average observer to keep track of the Trump administration’s biggest impacts on education in 2025. Here’s what changed across colleges and universities, K-12 schools, ...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very | Protest | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
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January 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Why It Matters That the Justice Department Ignored the Law About the Epstein Files: verdict.justia.com/2025/12/24/w...
Why It Matters That the Justice Department Ignored the Law About the Epstein Files
Amherst professor Austin Sarat discusses the Department of Justice’s failure to meet the legal deadline set by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, criticizing DOJ’s decision to release only a small fr...
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January 13, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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A majority of Republicans qualify as either Christian nationalism Adherents (20%) or Sympathizers (33%).
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Special Edition Buzz: Exploring Christian Nationalism in 2025
PRRI research finds a majority of Republicans qualify as either Christian nationalism Adherents (20%) or Sympathizers (33%).
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January 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Lock Them Up: Send the Trump Administration to Prison
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Lock Them Up: Send the Trump Administration to Prison
It's not enough to beat MAGA at the ballot box. There have to be consequences that keep this from ever happening again.
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January 11, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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The Alarmingly Racist History of the Supreme Court’s Canceled 1947 Christmas Party
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The Alarmingly Racist History of the Supreme Court’s Canceled 1947 Christmas Party
The Court held its first-ever office Christmas party in 1946. The following year, the clerks suggested inviting Black employees. It did not go over well.
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January 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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The centenary of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The centenary of Theodore Dreiser’s <em>An American Tragedy</em>
The most serious artists in the 1920s and early 1930s anticipated or often even assumed that society was proceeding to a new and higher stage.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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Birthright Citizenship for Non-Lawyers www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/12/birt...
Birthright Citizenship for Non-Lawyers
This evening (from 6 to 8 pm Eastern time), I'll be giving a talk about birthright citizenship at the Tompkins County Public Library.  It a...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Israeli government announces boycott of Haaretz newspaper over claims it supports ‘enemies’ – Middle East Monitor www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251230-isr...
Israeli government announces boycott of Haaretz newspaper over claims it supports ‘enemies’
For the first time since the establishment of the State of Israel, the government has announced a boycott of the newspaper Haaretz, accusing it of supporting “enemies” during wartime. According to …
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January 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM