AI, Abortions and India’s Cockroach Party

openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 18 July 2026

By the People | For the Children

In 1867, an 8-year-old girl named Elizabeth Turner became the epicenter of a legal battle that would help define what freedom really meant after the…

Trump COLLAPSES..!

Subdued reactions to Trump’s first WHCD speech

🚨 Vets CONFRONT Hegseth Over IRAN CASUALTIES!!!

Trump Sold Out America’s Stomach as Cyclospora Speads

Trump’s new tariffs to cost Americans $100 billion per year

US President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled a new package of tariffs targeting 60 countries that account for over 99% of US imports, a move that—if upheld in court—would cost Americans…

Four Palestinians and one Israeli killed in shooting in northern West Bank

View from The Hill: Labor’s ‘managed democracy’ reaches high point as blanket thrown over Israel-Gaza dissent

Ministers and factional heavyweights worked behind closed doors to squash an attempted revolt over Israel and Gaza.

Fans react to LeBron James signing with Philadelphia 76ers

Madison Cop Shoots Black Man 3 Times. Black Teen Sues Over False Gun Claim. Mace Targets CBC (1)

Politicians vs generals: Ukraine’s long, hidden war within

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has dismissed the country’s commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, after a turbulent week in which he also removed his defense minister, Mykhailo…

Ben Sasse: ‘My torso is chock full of tumors’

Pakistan’s only choice is active neutrality in US-Iran war

A war is entering Pakistani homes right now. Not through headlines, but through the electricity bill, the bus fare, the price of vegetables at the…

Fallen soldier’s wife: He ‘sounded different’ on final call

Trump’s WHCD jokes get mixed reaction

Trump Makes FATAL DECISION in AZ Just Before MIDTERMS!!

Haley Stevens EXPOSED For Using DIRTY TRICKS

Trump completely BOMBS during WHDC (warning: hard to watch)

This is actually criminal….