Chandra Hassan, an associate professor of surgery at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine, spent three weeks in Gaza in January 2024, treating patients who had survived tank shelling, drone strikes, and sniper fire amid Israel’s ongoing genocide. When Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis came under siege, Hassan and the MedGlobal doctors he was serving with were forced to flee.
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Eight years ago, I attended a gathering on my family’s farm in South Carolina on the day of the total solar eclipse. That same week, my grandmother, Sarah Graydon McCrory, went into the hospital with an infection from which she never recovered. In October of that year, just past her 96th birthday, Sarah died — and I got to stand by her on her deathbed as she grappled with connection and liberation…
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As the Trump administration turbocharges the growth of a nonstop dragnet, turning daily life into a data trail ready to be weaponized, Chicago is serving as one of its most visible targets. The city has long been a flashpoint for the oppressive expansion of digital surveillance. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), universities, and local police have all deployed powerful new technologies to…
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The mayoral campaign for disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo posted then quickly deleted a racist AI-generated ad targeting Zohran Mamdani ahead of the final New York City mayoral debate on Wednesday. The bizarre two-minute ad — released as campaigns make their final push before the election next month — takes aim at Mamdani’s public safety plans. It is riddled with anti-Black caricatures…
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A President Donald Trump nominee to lead an agency responsible for protecting whistleblowers reportedly spewed racist hatred and said he has a “Nazi streak” in group chat messages leaked on Monday. Paul Ingrassia, who Trump has picked to lead the Office of Special Counsel, allegedly repeatedly spewed racism against Black people and other groups while also expressing white supremacist…
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Vice President JD Vance has sought to downplay reports that leaders of an organization called the Young Republicans sent thousands of virulently racist and sexist text messages— despite his recent calls for Democrats to tone down their rhetoric. Vance dismissed the conversations, which were published by Politico earlier this week, as an example of “kids” doing “stupid things…
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