Today's Liberal News

Nepal’s “Gen Z Protests” Topple Government Amid Anger over Corruption & Inequality

Following massive, youth-led anti-corruption demonstrations in Nepal, the country’s former Chief Justice Sushila Karki looks set to become interim prime minister. This week, protesters set fire to the Parliament and other government buildings, and at least 21 people were killed in a police crackdown. The protests continued even after the government lifted its ban on social media platforms and Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned.

Mehdi Hasan on Death of Two-State Solution, Possible U.S. War with Venezuela & More

Democracy Now! speaks with Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo, about Israel’s recent move to expand settlements in the West Bank in an effort to erase the possibility of a Palestinian state. “They are doing everything in their power to make sure that a two-state solution can never happen,” says Hasan.
Hasan also comments on the deadly U.S. attack on a boat off the coast of Venezuela. “There’s no scenario in which you can say it was an imminent threat to the U.S.,” he says.

Mehdi Hasan: Trump Is Weaponizing the Murder of Charlie Kirk to Go After the Left

President Trump announced on Friday that a suspect was in custody for the killing of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Although the motive has not yet been established, Trump has escalated his attacks on the political left, saying, “We just have to beat the hell out of them.” Democracy Now! speaks with Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo, who says that the right is using Kirk’s killing to smear the left.
“There’s a real rewriting of history going on.

Nate Bargatze Needed a Better Bit

In the lead-up to last night’s Emmy Awards, the host, Nate Bargatze, explained that he wanted to keep the evening as tightly-run as possible, so that the ceremony wouldn’t exceed its three-hour timeslot. To enforce order, he intended to rely on a single bit throughout the show: For every second a winner went over their allotted time for giving an acceptance speech, he’d take $1,000 away from a planned $100,000 donation to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

The Emmys Speech That Captured the Hollywood Slog

When Jeff Hiller heard his name announced as this year’s Emmy winner for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series —his first-ever nomination, for his role in HBO’s Somebody Somewhere—he appeared stupefied. For a long moment, his face remained unchanged, failing to register the shock.

Inside the Very Expensive, Extremely Overwhelming, Engineered Fun of Theme Parks

Photographs by Sinna Nasseri
On a recent Friday morning, I found myself in a sea of bodies waiting to be admitted to Universal’s new $7 billion Orlando theme park, Epic Universe. Speakers hidden in the foliage blared a soaring melody suggestive of a heroic quest involving swords. The adults in the crowd, most of whom were unaccompanied by minors, wore performance athletic-gear. We filed through a metal detector and presented our tickets. Then all around me, people began to run.

In the Beginning, There Was the Word

For Joe Minter, the African Village in America, and 1504
And when those white-sailed ships
piled us together, cargo in the hull of hell,
the word rode with us, our tongues
anointed with the power of God.
When the lash found our language,
when they said don’t read or write,
our tongues were still gilded with a heavenly word.
We still sang that holy song,
even in this strange land. Even here, God spoke
to us and through us.

MAHA Is Complicating One of the Hardest Parts of Parenting

For parents, especially of young children, the question “What’s for dinner?” has high stakes. The answer can determine whether you’ll get to bed early or spend the night struggling to feed a shrieking toddler. It can stoke anxiety about budgeting and dread for the next appointment with the pediatrician.
Parents are worried not just about getting food on the table, but whether that food is good for their kids. That’s partly why Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.