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Headlines for April 25, 2025; “Sinners”: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots & Vampires; “Musk Is Scamming the City of Memphis”: Meet Two Brothers Fighting Colossus, Musk’s xAI Data Center

Headlines for April 24, 2025; “Ultimate Grifter”: Bob Kuttner on How Trump Could Drop His Tariffs & Take Credit for Saving Economy; As Trump Attacks CBS, Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press; Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Remembers Pope Francis for Progressive Views & Embracing the Global South; Trump’s War on Children: DOGE Guts Head Start, Child Abuse Programs, Healthcare & More

Headlines for April 23, 2025; “America, América”: Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis

Headlines for April 22, 2025; Remembering Pope Francis on Earth Day: How He Linked Capitalism, Climate & Catholicism; “The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline”: Update on Abduction & Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk; Vijay Prashad: Historic 1955 Anti-Colonial Bandung Conference Inspired New Era in Global South

Headlines for April 21, 2025; Sen. Van Hollen on Meeting Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador & Escalating Constitutional Crisis; Pope Dies at 88: Pax Christi’s Marie Dennis on How He Championed the Marginalized, Changed the Church; “Heart of Compassion” for Palestine: Pope Francis Called for Gaza Ceasefire Until His Final Days; Pope Francis’s Book Editor Robert Ellsberg on the Pontiff’s Life, Legacy & Care for Refugees; Mohsen Mahdawi Arrest Sends Message “Peacemakers Are Not Welcome”: Israeli American Columbia Student

Headlines for April 18, 2025; “Absolute Nonsense”: As Measles Cases Soar & Kids Die, Expert Slams RFK Jr. on Vaccine-Autism Link; Cannes Selects Film on Gaza Photographer Fatma Hassona; A Day Later, She’s Killed in Israeli Strike

In Part 2 of our interview with Omar El Akkad, he discusses the roots of his new book about the war on Gaza, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, and how he draws hope from people engaged in “active resistance.”

Headlines for April 17, 2025; Constitutional Crisis: As Trump Ignores Judges’ Orders, Will the Courts Capitulate?; “Need the World to Pay Attention”: Sudan Faces World’s Worst Displacement Crisis After 2 Years of War; Trump Eyes Congo’s “Incredible Mineral Riches” as Armed Conflict Devastates Region; “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”: Omar El Akkad on Gaza & Western Complicity

Headlines for April 16, 2025; Mohsen Mahdawi’s Abduction “Should Terrify” Us, Says VT Rep. Balint, Whose Grandfather Was Killed in Holocaust; Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: Breaking Up Meta’s Monopoly Would Improve Service, Safety; “Unquestionably Unconstitutional”: Harvard Law Prof Slams Cuts as School Rejects Trump Demands

In Part 2 of our conversation with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, he discusses in detail his new set of documentaries.

Headlines for April 15, 2025; Liberation Seder: Hundreds of Jewish Protesters Demand Release of Foreign Students Abducted by ICE; Trump Weighs Expelling U.S. Citizens as Salvadoran Pres. Says He Won’t Return Wrongfully Removed Man; Cover-Up in Ecuador? Disputed Presidential Election Rocked by New Allegation from 2023 Assassination; “The Dark Money Game”: Director Alex Gibney on How Citizens United Ushered in “Legalized Corruption”

As the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast Suave returns for its second season, we continue our conversation with journalist Maria Hinojosa and David Luis “Suave” Gonzalez, the subject of the series. Gonzalez was sentenced to life in prison at age 17, but got an unexpected second chance when he was paroled in 2017 following a Supreme Court ruling that found sentences like his unconstitutional. The first season of the podcast followed Gonzalez’s case, his decadeslong friendship with Hinojosa and his eventual release from prison. The second season looks at his struggle to reintegrate into society.

Watch our extended interview with British Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi and Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri, who discuss the new feature film The Teacher. Inspired by true events, the drama looks at how Israel’s decadeslong military occupation impacts Palestinian children. Nabulsi details the challenges of filming The Teacher in the occupied West Bank, and Bakri discusses how he drew on his own experience as a father to play the titular role.

Headlines for April 14, 2025; Mahmoud Khalil’s Lawyer: Trump Admin Is Delaying in Federal Court While Racing to Deport Activist; Maria Hinojosa: El Salvador’s “Dictator” Key to Disappearing Migrants Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia; “I’m Not Really Free”: Pulitzer Winners “Suave” & Maria Hinojosa Examine Life After Prison in Season 2