The Art Trump Doesn’t Want and the Artists Left Behind
Last year, arts organizations and cultural institutions across the US received an alarming message: Their federal…
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SCOTUS Smacks Down MAGA Map of Missouri
The long and strange saga of Missouri’s redistricting battle is over. On Friday evening, the Supreme Court released a…
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Tim Tebow “Pausing” Christian Seminar Promotion After Our Investigation
Update, September 25: In an emailed response (PDF) to Tebow’s announcement that he planned to pause his relationship…
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El Niño’s Estimated Death Toll From Extreme Heat Alone: 451,000 by February
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Use Flawed Database to Vet Voter Citizenship
The Supreme Court cleared the way on Friday for the Trump administration to use a controversial government program in…
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Tech Bros and the Trump Administration Are Building an AI Empire—In the Philippines
In a move that upended the international conversation about AI, earlier this month, a researcher at the AI company…
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How the Author of a Bestselling Book on Biological War Feels About AI
We’ve been hearing a great deal recently about the specter of AI-driven human extinction. Maybe our misplaced trust in…
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The Video Game Industry Is Brutal. Now It’s Unionizing.
By 6 p.m. Sunday, the union had already run out of the colorful pins representing each bargaining unit—all 7,000 of…
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New Yorkers Lined the Streets Against Benjamin Netanyahu’s Visit
In the early months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the streets of New York were filled with protests. Hundreds of people…
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Netanyahu’s UN Speech Was a Full-On Defense of Israeli Settlements
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on the defensive when he took the stage at the United Nations General…
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Trump’s FDA Pick Refuses to Say IUDs Don’t Cause Abortions
This article has been republished from Autonomy News, a worker-owned publication covering reproductive rights and…
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Thousands Rally Against Trump’s Kennedy Center Takeover
President Trump’s mindset when it comes to the Kennedy Center is that of an authoritarian toddler: If he can’t have the…
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How Russia Is Attacking the Midterms with a Mother Jones Deepfake
A few days ago, an X user called роман—which is Russian for the name “Roman”—posted a purported Mother Jones video that…
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ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror
Editor’s note: This story discusses suicide and extreme violence. Also read part 1, part 2, and part 3 of our…
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A Bookseller Confronts a Mysterious Company Hunting His Rarest Books
Brandon Thomas DiSabatino is used to receiving unusual emails. DiSabatino is a poet, author, playwright, and the owner…
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Meet the Republicans Voting Blue in Florida
Bobby Williams, a third-generation Floridian and founder of a disaster relief nonprofit, was one in the crowded field…
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Exclusive: Mamdani on Extreme Weather, DoorDash, And Why Trump Likes Him So Much
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday directly linked the climate crisis to everyday issues facing New…
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Is Male Birth Control Finally Coming?
The summer of 2021 was supposed to be a joyful season of life for Mattie Quinlan: She had just gotten married and was…
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Climate Visions Clash at UN Summit, as Trump Goes in Whole Hog for Fossil Fuels
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…
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The SEC Wants to Scrap a Key Anti-Corruption Rule Targeting Private Equity
Earlier this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission quietly published a proposal to rescind a long-standing…
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The Gospel of High Yields: Inside Tim Tebow’s Favorite Wealth Seminar
This story was produced in partnership with Pablo Torre Finds Out. In a cavernous arena in suburban Atlanta one warm…
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What World Is Melania Living In?
First Lady Melania Trump appeared on Fox and Friends on Wednesday to defend her husband’s second term despite his…
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As Trump Banned News Outlets, His Own Media Company’s Stock Shot Up
Something strange occurred recently: The stock price of Donald Trump’s beleaguered media company shot up. What…
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ICE Wiped Thousands of People From Its Database. Families Are Paying the Price.
On September 17, immigration attorney Rachel Marandett went looking for a man held by ICE in the agency’s detainee…
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JD Vance Is Coming For Your Obamacare
The Trump administration is removing about 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act coverage, Vice President JD Vance…
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Trump to Ballroom Architect: “I Am the Code”
“I am the code.” So said President Trump to the first architect working on the new White House ballroom being built on…
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Trump-Appointed Judge Smacks Down EPA’s Termination of Clean Energy Grants
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…
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Newsom Vetoes Bill That Would Ban Extraditions for Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care
When Louisiana authorities tried to extradite a California doctor last winter for sending abortion pills to women in…
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Decades of Harm: New York Schools Named in Nearly 2,000 Child Sex Abuse Claims
This article was co-published with The 74, a nonprofit news outlet covering education in the US. Warning: This story…
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Whites Only
On May 8, hundreds of civil rights protesters, carrying signs that said, “No Jim Crow Maps” and “Hands Off Our Vote,”…
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Loyalists Only, Please. Why Trump Surrounds Himself With True Believers
President Donald Trump’s second term has often felt like an exercise in mass distraction. As soon as he’s directing…
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Trump Threatens to “Annihilate” Iran and Its People in UN Address
President Trump’s rambling, combative speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly saw him return to his most…
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The Party’s Over. But Trump’s America 250 Anniversary May Never End.
The Trump administration says it plans to shut down Freedom 250, the quasi-private organization it used to take over…
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The Trump Administration’s Hard-On for AI, Explained
In recent weeks, a fresh crop of people connected to the artificial intelligence industry have emerged to warn that AI…
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Time to Revisit Trump-Russia Collusion
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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The Bizarre Backstory of the Trump-Endorsed Sticker Mogul Who Could Be Headed to Congress
Anthony Constantino, the Republican nominee in upstate New York’s 21st congressional district, is not subtle in his…
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