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Holocaust survivors on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Nazi Germany exterminated over 1 million Jews and other minority groups between 1940 and 1945. The commemoration comes as the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles worldwide and far-right forces gain strength across Europe and the United States. For more, we speak with Israeli American historian Raz Segal, who says the academic field of Holocaust studies has a blind spot when it comes to Israel and its actions in Palestine, from the 1948 Nakba to the genocidal assault on Gaza. “Since October 2023, so many Holocaust scholars have gone out of their way to protect Israel,” says Segal. “It’s very grotesque.”

As U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres renews his call for an immediate halt to fighting in Sudan between the country’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, we speak with New York Times correspondent Declan Walsh about how the conflict is being fueled by the illicit gold trade. He reports that Sudan’s gold riches are being smuggled out of the country by both sides in order to pay for the drones, guns and missiles that have killed tens of thousands of people since the start of the civil war in April 2023. Much of that wealth is ending up in the United Arab Emirates, which backs the RSF despite mounting evidence of the group’s war crimes and crimes against humanity. “Gold is really at the heart of the RSF’s ascent to power,” says Walsh.

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Trump represents a rightward shift happening across many nations. Award winning journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal reflects on that global trend. 

Leah Penniman, in an interview for Sonali Kolhatkar's new book, Talking About Abolition, asks us to imagine restoring people’s deep connections to land and growing our own food.