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Gautama Mehta

Gautama Mehta is the the 2024-2025 Grist environmental justice reporting fellow.

• The potential merger of two steel industry titans has environmentalists worried
• Labor win at Georgia school bus factory shows a worker-led electric vehicle transition is possible

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Eric Brown

Eric Brown is an ecology PhD student at the University of Maine on attachment at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Eric serves as a bargaining committee representative for the University of Maine...

• Trump not welcome: Malaysians call for ASEAN summit protests
• Killed United Healthcare magnate Thompson: Symbol of a greed-driven industry

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Hansgeorg Hermann

Hansgeorg Hermann writes for the German newspaper Junge Welt.

• Fascists fracture in France, but right wing ascends as a whole

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Liu Rui

Liu Rui is a cartoonist for Global Times, China's English language newspaper. She is interested in political cartoons and illustrations.

• Trapped

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Gerd Wiegel

Dr. Gerd Wiegel is a political scientist and advisor on right-wing extremism and anti-fascism for Die Linke in the German parliament. He has worked on the extreme and populist Right...

• Germany’s AfD dives deeper into the pool of right-wing extremism

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Anders Carlsson

Anders Carlsson is former chairman of the Communist Party in Sweden (Kommunistiska Partiet) and currently a member of its central committee.

• Sweden Democrats: Neo-Nazis rebrand and push the whole country to the right

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Junge Welt

Junge Welt (Young World) is Germany's largest daily circulation left newspaper, published in Berlin.

• Rise of the right in Europe: Italy’s Meloni is ‘firmly in the saddle’

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Kelsea McLain

Kelsea McLain is the Deputy Director of the Yellowhammer Fund in Alabama and a member of the Southern Reproductive and Sexual Health Advocates table convened by the National Health Law...

• Abortion outlaws: With Roe v. Wade gone, Southern women are under siege

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Heather French

Heather French is an activist and writer in North Carolina.

• North Carolina Republicans’ mask ban is aimed at silencing Gaza dissent

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