Aaron Gell

3 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Aaron Gell

Sharnalle Mitchell was at her home in Montgomery, Alabama, one evening in January 2014, watching TV with her two young children, when police showed up and took her into custody. It seems she’d neglected to pay a traffic fine issued years before. Unable to make bail, Mitchell spent the night locked up, after which she was brought into court, where a judge informed her that, due to additional surcharges, she was now on the hook for several thousand dollars.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Aaron Gell

Sharnalle Mitchell was at her home in Montgomery, Alabama, one evening in January 2014, watching TV with her two young children, when police showed up and took her into custody. It seems she’d neglected to pay a traffic fine issued years before. Unable to make bail, Mitchell spent the night locked up, after which she was brought into court, where a judge informed her that, due to additional surcharges, she was now on the hook for several thousand dollars.

2 months ago | newrepublic.com | Aaron Gell

The day after the U.S. president announced his plan toturn the Gaza Strip into “the Riviera of the Middle East,” Francesca Albanese was asked about theidea at a Copenhagen press conference. Rolling her eyes behind trademark black-framed spectacles,the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinianterritories took in a sharp breath, as if to steady her nerves, and leveleda sympathetic gaze at her audience. “Prrresident Trumppp—oh, where to start,”she began, with an exasperated stage growl.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Aaron Gell

The day after the U.S. president announced his plan to turn the Gaza Strip into “the Riviera of the Middle East,” Francesca Albanese was asked about the idea at a Copenhagen press conference. Rolling her eyes behind trademark black-framed spectacles, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories took in a sharp breath, as if to steady her nerves, and leveled a sympathetic gaze at her audience.

2 months ago | newrepublic.com | Aaron Gell

In October 2023, The World Transformed, the annual conference of the British Labour Party’s leftist flank, offered a grizzled socialist organizer a brief speaking slot. He’d been asked the question “Why is the left losing?”—a mystery many liberals in America and around the world have been pondering as well. The guest, a former organic farmer and scholar of social movement theory named Roger Hallam, looked weary.