This Palantir Billionaire’s Passion Project Is Criminalizing Homelessness
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of the weapons-tech company Palantir, is also a major force behind the Trump administration’s…
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump’s 75-Country Visa Ban
This January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed consular officers to refuse to process immigration visas for…
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A Natalie Harp Conspiracy Theory (Not Really)
A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a…
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In the Wake of a Toxic Disaster, Roseland Parents Still Struggle to Keep Their Children Safe
This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As a…
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40 Acres and a Lie Part 3
The loss of land for Black Americans started with the government’s betrayal of its “40 acres” promise to formerly…
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The Fight Over Spraying Roundup in California’s Forests Has Only Gotten Bigger
This video was created in partnership with PBS NewsHour. The record amounts of glyphosate being sprayed in California’s…
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PBS airs our glyphosate reporting
“They’re taking away the choice of being surrounded by a toxic chemical,” says Tahoe resident and three-time Olympian…
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Partisan’s Exit Suggests DOJ Is Getting Better at Politicized Prosecutions
Ed Martin, a trench-coat donning former “Stop the Steal” advocate whose work at various senior Justice Department jobs…
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Flock Execs Are Taking Credit For Catching Bad Cops Now
Flock Safety is having a hard month. The surveillance technology company, which has sold more than 120,000 automated…
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Florida’s GOP Has a Very Short Playbook: Call Everyone a Socialist
In a bright red power suit, Ashley Moody, the former Florida attorney general who nabbed the state’s GOP Senate…
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MAHA and the Midterms
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jumped on Donald Trump’s bandwagon in 2024, he brought with him the wellness-obsessed,…
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To Miami’s Chagrin, Warming Seas Are Driving a Bumper Crop of Sargassum
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
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Why Cancer, Not Affordability, May Be the Biggest Issue in Iowa’s Midterms
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
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Native American Leaders Denounce Record Glyphosate Spraying on National Forests
As Stephen Young stepped into the woods about an hour’s drive from Lassen Peak volcano in northeast California, the…
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Adventures in Unplugging
I’m not sure when my smartphone began to feel like an albatross, when my unease about relying on it devolved into…
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Trump’s Minions Say He’s Mulling New Tax Breaks—They’re Mainly for the Rich
President Donald Trump apparently wants to cut taxes for the rich yet again. Is this some kind of twisted midterms…
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Republicans Are Realizing That No One Wants Data Centers
The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a memo Tuesday suggesting that, if incumbent Republican Ohio Sen.…
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Trump Enraged South Korea to Please the North. It Didn’t Work.
North Korea launched several ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Thursday, according to South Korea’s…
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Roger Stone Is Lobbying for a Vape Firm Accused of Illegally Marketing to Kids
Ecto World, a Buffalo, New York–based company that distributes vape products and faces legal troubles, believed it…
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Trump Ordered to Release Billions in Resilience Grants for Disadvantaged Communities
This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
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What Does Trump’s Open Respect For North Korean Nukes Tell Iran?
President Trump hinted on Wednesday that his friendly relationship with North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un may…
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Administration Moves to Open National Forests to Roadbuilding, Drilling, and Logging
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
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Angie Nixon Goes on Trial in September. She Just Won Florida’s Senate Primary.
Florida State Rep. Angie Nixon just defeated Alex Vindman, the presumed frontrunner, in the state’s Democratic Senate…
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A Texas Program Has Poured Billions Into Cancer Research. Ken Paxton Voted Against It.
In early 2007, newly reelected Republican Gov. Rick Perry pushed an innovative response to a problem that was killing…
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How Trump’s Deportation Machine Deprives Deaf People of Their Humanity
In February, an ICE agent directed Emilio, a Deaf man, to get onto a bus in southern Texas. By that point, Emilio had…
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Sen. Adam Schiff on Israel, Impeachment, and Post-Trump America
Sen. Adam Schiff is often on the receiving end of President Donald Trump’s rage online. It should be no surprise. Back…
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Trump’s White House Business Shindig Will Be a Cesspool of Financial Conflicts
Donald Trump will welcome the leaders of major cryptocurrency and prediction-market companies to the White House on…
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Cops Love ICE’s New Shock Gloves. Parents Want Them Out of Schools.
In early August, ICE revealed plans to purchase $20 million worth of electric-shock gloves, manufactured by a company…
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South Korea Wants Its Military Back
On Tuesday, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung reiterated his calls for the country to retake full control of its…
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The Trump Administration Launches a New Angle of Attack Against Trans Healthcare
Just two days after finalizing a regulation to make sure trans kids from low-income families can’t afford puberty…
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Zach Lahn Is MAHA’s Great Farm Country Hope. Is He the Populist Hero He Claims to Be?
Editor’s Note: When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jumped on Donald Trump’s bandwagon in 2024, he brought with him the…
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Trump’s Bombing Threats Have a Golf Course Problem
On Monday morning, President Donald Trump issued a blunt warning to America’s erstwhile ally: “If Oman gets in the way,…
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One of Congress’ Most Scandal-Plagued Republicans May Be About to Lose His Primary
On Tuesday, Republican primary voters in central Florida will decide whether Rep. Cory Mills should once again be their…
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Trump Burns Allies Over Iran. South Korea and Oman Are Next.
President Trump spent the weekend turning on two US security partners. He ordered a cutback in joint military exercises…
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I Like Baseball Now.
Admittedly, I don’t know much about baseball—but I do know that watching the first home run of the Women’s Professional…
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Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno Says Max Miller is Unfit to Hold Office
Shortly after Congressman Max Miller (R-Ohio) went live on X to defend himself against recent reporting by Mother Jones…
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