SOMA Justice - Addressing Race and Inequality

08/31/2026

New York Magazine on the use of the term 'genocide' to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza

08/30/2026

The Trump administration is said to have proposed trading away a parcel of land in Yosemite National Park so a private developer can gain access to the park. The potential deal has alarmed conservationists and former National Park Service officials, who say that Yosemite, the crown jewel of the U.S. park system, should be off limits to development. Read more: https://nyti.ms/46yb7I0

08/30/2026

Nepal's foreign minister is calling for a "global effort" to tackle climate change, saying his country is among the worst-hit by rising temperatures.

Read more: https://bbc.in/4qHHcXc

08/30/2026

08/29/2026

Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, said the three-year degree is the wrong answer to a real crisis. He said decades of public disinvestment have shifted the cost of higher education onto students and families, and schools should not respond by shrinking the degree and asking students to make do with less.

“We need to address the problem at its root,” he said. “Reinvest massively in higher education and build a free public higher-education system that gives every student access to a full, high-quality college education without taking on crushing debt.”

Link to Washington Post article in comments.

08/27/2026