This isn't the first time the US government stood on the wrong side of an essential human rights challenge. In my new book, "Righting Wrongs," I explain how the human rights movement repeatedly circumvented and overcame US obstruction. We can do it again.

"During Syria’s 13-year civil war, the Assad regime killed tens of thousands of civilians to stamp out opposition. Some of the bodies were dumped into trenches." Putin is now sheltering Assad from prosecution.

Netanyahu's cynically callous way to prepare for new ceasefire talks: kill a bunch of Palestinians, "launching one of the deadliest and most intense bombardments” in Gaza for many months. “About 90 people were killed…, including many women and children."

"In an attack at sunset, Israelis set a Palestinian village ablaze. The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers." The Netanyahu government has done little to stop it.

"A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation…, jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth."

"Israel’s genocide against Palestinians is being sustained by a system of exploitative occupation and profit," a UN expert warned revealing "how corporate profiteering and monetary gain has enabled and legitimized Israel’s illegal presence and actions."

Republicans hope to avoid public backlash over 10.6 million people losing their healthcare in their Big Ugly Bill by delaying the cuts until after the midterm elections, but people aren't stupid. They know what is coming and will vote on it.

"American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food."

The Israeli government has overwhelmingly lost the American public among Democrats. That is what committing genocide in Gaza will do. Democratic Party leaders need to start reflecting that enormous shift.

Because of Hungarian PM Viktor Orban's flouting of fundamental European Union democratic values, Denmark moves to suspend Hungary's voting rights within the EU.

Trump takes tough about Putin but then caves in. He pretends he wants a ceasefire in Ukraine but then abandons the country, encouraging Putin to continue his war. The "tough negotiator" turns out to be a wimp.

Israeli "airstrikes and shootings killed 94 Palestinians in Gaza overnight, including 45 who were attempting to get much-needed humanitarian aid." This is how Netanyahu shows he's supposedly ready for a ceasefire.

A federal judge in Washington ruled that the Trump administration cannot categorically deny entry to people crossing the southern border to claim asylum, striking down a change made on Trump’s first day in office.

Five Cambodian environmental activists from the youth-led group Mother Nature who have completed one year of longer prison terms should be released. They were convicted of “plotting against the government” and “insulting the king" for peaceful activism.

The Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City speaks eloquently about affordability. That made him connect with many New Yorkers who have been hurting, but the Democratic establishment still seems wary even though he has been able to woo Trump voters.

Two men linked to Pakistan’s major opposition party have been held without charge for more than seven months in the United Arab Emirates and "disappeared" after being detained by the UAE allegedly at the behest of the reigning Pakistani military.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March and Trump resisted repatriating, “was beaten, deprived of sleep and psychologically tortured during the nearly three months he spent in Salvadoran custody.”

We shouldn't worry about Trump's and Republicans' proposed cuts to Americans' healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the rich because, as Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, callously put it, “We are all going to die.”

NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani exhibited "a new postwoke progressivism, acknowledging…the identity politics of the last decade without ever really foregrounding” them but instead focusing "pretty relentlessly on affordability" -- "a class-based appeal."

Many US citizens are all too ready to employ immigrants, “admit them to schools and universities, sell to them, buy from them or fall in love with them — in short, welcome them.” To prevent this, Trump must control citizens with penalties or punishments.

A federal judge blocks Trump's effort to end temporary protected status for Haitians. The Trump administration believes that Haiti is too dangerous for U.S. citizens to visit but Trump has no problem forcing Haitians back there permanently.