Today's Liberal News

“Ungrounding”: Eyal Weizman on Gaza Genocide & Israel’s “Permanent Architecture of Control”

We speak with Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman about his new book, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide, a meticulous investigation into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the physical destruction of the territory and its impact on the Palestinian people.
Forensic Architecture was founded in 2010 as an interdisciplinary research group focused on investigating state violence and human rights violations.

Meet AI Engineer Who Resigned from DeepMind over “Google’s Complicity in the Gaza Genocide”

Several tech workers at Google’s AI unit DeepMind have resigned in protest over the tech giant’s work with the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Last week, DeepMind research engineer Sofia Liguori announced her resignation in a letter to her colleagues titled “Stay Human.” She denounced what she called “Google’s complicity in the Gaza genocide” and the increasing integration of Google’s technology into military and surveillance systems.

Maybe Donald Trump Doesn’t Want His Party to Win the Midterms

I put it to you plainly: Would someone who wanted to win the midterms be behaving as Donald Trump has?
We are a full 20 minutes into Trump’s address to the nation, on the day before Election Day, and he has yet to pivot from pipes. He is standing beside, of all things, the Reflecting Pool, and he is talking about, of all things, the pipes.

Trump’s Venezuela Project Just Got a Lot More Complicated

Two days after María Corina Machado’s high-stakes return to Venezuela last week, she walked into her low-slung party headquarters, which had been raided and vandalized by supporters of the regime that had forced her into exile. The graffiti had been painted over and the debris had been cleared. Machado was there for her first major meeting back in Caracas, with about 100 family members of political prisoners. Machado could see that many held photos of their detained relatives.

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Who says the Midwest is boring? On this election eve, the two most bizarre stories in politics are both coming out of Senate races in what’s sometimes derided as “flyover country.” But as those of us from the region know, low topography doesn’t mean low drama.

The Anger Election’s Final Twist

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Over the weekend, in a November surprise, Democratic Representative Haley Stevens, who lost the Michigan primary for U.S. Senate, appeared at Bishop Marvin Winans’s church in Detroit alongside the Republican candidate, Mike Rogers. She endorsed him soon after, but insisted that she was “not turning my back on Democrats.

Fall Is in the Air, Part II

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Fall foliage is seen in Burlington, Maine, on October 13, 2026.Russell Cheyne / Reuters
A statue of a deer is silhouetted against the autumnal foliage reflected on Loch Faskally in Pitlochry, Scotland, on November 2, 2026.Artur Widak / NurPhoto / Getty
A red squirrel sits alert amid a carpet of autumn leaves at Rakowicki Cemetery on October 30, 2026, in Krakow, Poland.

“Princes and Thieves” Author Matthew Cole on Jared Kushner & the “Secret Plot to Remake Middle East”

Vanity Fair recently published an excerpt from longtime investigative reporter Matthew Cole’s new book, Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East.
The excerpt alleged that during President Trump’s first term, Saudi and Emirati leaders secretly put at least $2 billion into bank accounts and gave access to Kushner. At the time, Jared Kushner was serving as senior adviser to President Trump, his father-in-law.