Emily St. John Mandel Still Has Hope
Emily St. John Mandel is perhaps best known for her 2014 novel Station Eleven, which presciently depicted a devastating…
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Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Mail Ballot Scheme
President Donald Trump’s latest effort to steal the midterms has played out in plain view. His plan was to force states…
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Stop Trying to Sell Us Chris Brown’s Redemption Arc
“Your courage is contagious.” In May 2026, while staring directly into the eyes of three of the survivors of Jeffrey…
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A New DHS Report Proves Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Were Right All Along
Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigrant detention camp erected in the Florida Everglades last year, routinely held…
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States and Cities Sue To Stop Trump’s Immigrant “Wealth Test” Rule Before It Takes Effect
New York is leading a 22-state lawsuit against the Trump administration for unlawfully expanding the “public charge”…
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The Proud Boys Next Door
Michael Premo was gasping for air. It was January 6, 2021, and Premo and his partner, fellow filmmaker Rachel Falcone,…
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States Already Have a Good Way to Ensure Election Integrity—and MAGA Hates It
In January 2022, at an event hosted by one of the scores of local “election integrity” groups inspired by Donald…
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Former EPA Officials: Trump Is Letting Data Centers Make People Sick
While tech oligarchs grandstand about the existential danger AI superintelligence poses to humanity, former…
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Trump Keeps Using “National Security” to Do What He Wants
President Donald Trump has a favorite justification for everything he does: “It’s a national security matter.” After…
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The Inspirational Life of Environmentalist Wendell Berry
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This…
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Conspiracists and Supporters Collide at Charlie Kirk’s Memorial
We went to Charlie Kirk’s one-year memorial service at the site of his death. And it was full of…
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Trump’s DOJ Is Reportedly Investigating Gavin Newsom’s Travel Funding
The Justice Department’s probe into Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, is related to his…
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Ted Cruz Pushed His College Sports Bill on ESPN—and Was Booed Mercilessly
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was on the receiving end of a nearly 10-minute chorus of boos on Saturday morning ahead of the…
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Fear “the Blob”: Relentless Marine Heat Waves Threaten to Upend Ocean Life
This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…
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The Black Market for a Lifesaving Cat Drug
In 2023, Marlena Arjo adopted a one-eyed kitten with a penchant for destruction. She named him Otto, and over the next…
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ICE at the Polls? Ain’t Never Gonna Happen, Says This Voting Expert
At a press briefing on Friday, David Becker, a longtime voting rights advocate and the founder and director of the…
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America’s 9/11 President Never Forgets…His Paintings
On Friday, former President George W. Bush shared his new collection of self-congratulatory paintings to mark the 25th…
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What Does FBI Director Kash Patel Actually Do?
FBI Director Kash Patel seems to be very bad at his job. This was confirmed yet again on Thursday, when national…
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I’ve Covered Islamophobia for Years. Trump’s GOP Has Taken It to a New Level.
What do Republican officials think of the nation’s roughly 4.5 million Muslims? No need to ask—they’ll just tell you.…
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The Religion of National Security
Anyone who’s camped out at a folk music festival and has been woken up at 2 a.m. by a blaringly rendered version of…
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“We’ve Been Told There’s Another Plane in the Air and It’s Heading Here”
It’s been 25 years since the horrific attacks of 9/11. In the immediate aftermath, there was a hope that this nightmare…
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Utah’s Voters Would Like Their National Monuments Back, Thank You
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…
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Don’t Be Fooled. Congress Isn’t Cracking Down on OpenAI.
A Republican-led Senate subcommittee on disaster management is now investigating the July incident where OpenAI’s…
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Anthropic Staffers Again Sound the Alarm on AI Catastrophe
On Tuesday, experienced AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from the AI firm Anthropic—saying that both that company and…
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Your Deadbeat President Is Never Giving You $5,000
The year is 2026, and by now, you know, with clarity, that Donald Trump is a brazen liar with an unusually impressive…
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The Far Right Can’t Stand Being Called “Far Right”
On Sunday, the German far-right party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) won a resounding—and disturbing—victory in the…
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Will Putin’s Decade-Long War on US Elections Hit the Midterms?
In July 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, then–director of national intelligence, strode into the White House briefing room to…
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Blue-State Hospitals Are Folding on Trans Youth Care. Parents Are Wondering Why They Moved.
Last week, the Mount Sinai hospital system in New York—which sees about 6 million outpatient visits per year—announced…
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Soaring Insurance Prices Are Hitting Black and Hispanic Homeowners Hardest
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…
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Trump’s Venezuela Deal Helps His Rich Friends—And That’s It
The Trump administration announced an arrangement with Venezuela last week that would see the US take control of 65…
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Get Ready For OpenAI’s ‘The Social Network’ Movie Moment
“Countries will fall. Industries are gonna collapse,” Andrew Garfield, the actor playing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, says in…
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A Teachers Union and Microsoft Just Made An AI Safety Deal. But Compliance Remains an Open Question.
On Wednesday morning, in a Manhattan press room containing about 50 reporters and union members, one of the largest…
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Memphis Has Spent a Year Under Federal Occupation. ICE Would Rather You Didn’t Notice.
A massive immigration operation is happening in Memphis. It’s been underway for just under a year now—hundreds of…
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“We’re the Outliers Here”: UK-Led Sanctions on Israeli Settlements Isolate the US
On September 8, the British government banned the import of goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.…
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The Impossible Struggle to Demine Gaza
When an Israeli quadcopter drone dropped an explosive that didn’t immediately detonate, Walaa thought her family was…
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A MAGA Activist Flooded Georgia With Voter Challenges. Now He Works for the State Election Board.
Sporting a pumpkin-orange button-down and aggressively furrowed eyebrows, Jason Frazier approached the lectern at a…
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