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The Most Extreme GOP Candidate in the Nation

A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and...

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David Corn

The Race to Stop AI’s Threats to Democracy

OpenAI and its revolutionary chatbot ChatGPT have single-handedly accelerated AI’s boom and threatened to upend much of how we work, create, learn,...

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Nation’s Biggest Public Utility Just Doubled Down on Coal, Gas, and Nuclear

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the past four years, Angie Mummaw...

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Katie Myers

Mahmoud Khalil Is Suing the White House and Heritage Foundation

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist who spent months in ICE detention, has filed a federal lawsuit against what he alleges is a “public-private...

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Sophie Hurwitz

Lawsuit: Meta Used AI For Discriminatory Layoffs

A group of 26 current and former Meta employees filed a lawsuit Monday evening accusing the tech company of using AI software to target employees with...

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Alex Nguyen

Top Homeland Security Democrat Demands Cancellation of Massive DHS Self-Deportation Contract

Bennie Thompson, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, wants DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to cancel a nearly billion dollar...

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Dan Friedman And Nick Schwellenbach

Attack Ad Calls Climate Activist an Oil Investor Because of His 401(k)

William Lawrence, the 36-year-old Sunrise Movement co-founder running a progressive congressional campaign in Michigan, has positioned himself as an...

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Sophie Hurwitz

“Huge Wave” of Carbon Storage Projects Sets off Alarms in Rural Indiana

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The plan to bury carbon under...

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Erin McCormick

Colombian Man in Maine Reportedly Killed by ICE Agents

On Monday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were involved in yet another fatal shooting, this time in Biddeford, Maine. The Maine...

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Noah Lanard And Sophie Hurwitz

Polio Made Mitch McConnell MAHA’s Enemy

On Sunday, after four weeks of absence from Congress caused by a medical emergency—which led to extensive speculation about his health—Sen. Mitch...

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Julia Métraux

Trump’s Energy Policies Are “Fattening the Wallets of his Cronies” at Public Expense

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration has...

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Dharna Noor

He’s Pete Hegseth’s Wealth Manager. He Also Pushes “Pro Israel Policies” Like War With Iran.

In March 2022, Pete Hegseth, then a Fox News analyst and host, spoke at a dinner put on by the Israel Heritage Foundation, a conservative Jewish group...

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Dan Friedman And Glen Stellmacher

A Little Law Gives Hope That Government Can Suck Less and Make People’s Lives Better

When Sam Levine, Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), was eleven, he signed up for a service that...

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Sophie Hurwitz

How Lindsey Graham, Eager to Serve Trump, Became a Useful Idiot for Putin

Within moments of the early Sunday morning announcement that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) had died, there was much obvious commentary about his...

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David Corn

Scientists Ponder a New Climate Defense Tactic: Throwing Shade at El Niño

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This year’s El Niño is shaping up to...

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Molly Taft

A World Cup Star Can Be “Babygirl.” But For Now, He’s Mostly AI.

As someone who watches too much soccer and knows Erling Haaland as perhaps the world’s most formidable striker playing today, seeing friends and...

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Alex Nguyen

DOJ Subpoenas New York Times Journalists Following Air Force One Security Report

The New York Times said that at least four of its journalists received subpoenas on Friday from the Justice Department following their report on...

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Alex Nguyen

Dam Removals Helped Bring About a Stunning Comeback for Maine’s Alewives

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For a few weeks each...

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Sydney Cromwell

The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin Part 1

Sam Bankman-Fried was once called the “crypto king.” But in November 2022, his company, FTX, imploded within a matter of days. All around the...

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Lawsuit Accuses ICE and Private Prison Contractors of Abusing a Disabled Detainee

On Monday, Ulises Peña López, represented by Disability Law United and Pangea Legal Services, sued the US government and private prison contractors...

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Julia Métraux

Nature’s Ingenious Survival Strategies Are No Match for Human Destruction

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Life has colonized every corner...

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Damian Carrington

Graham Platner Says He’s Out. Now What?

Graham Platner, the scandal-ridden populist Senate candidate from Maine, suspended his campaign Wednesday night. His announcement came two days after...

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Sophie Hurwitz

ICE Keeps Using The Same Justification For Killing Drivers

On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant and a three-decade Houston...

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Sophie Hurwitz

Cuba May Be in Shambles, but Miami’s New Museum Keeps the Bay of Pigs Alive

Eduardo Zayas-Bazán was a 24-year-old lawyer when he left Cuba for the United States and joined about 1,400 other Cuban exiles, who were known as...

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Laura C. Morel

Administration’s Fuzzy Math Will Undermine Energy Efficiency Savings

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Energy efficiency standards can...

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Alison F. Takemura

Trump Strikes Iran and Threatens War Crimes—Again

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the US would continue strikes on Iran for a second night, and—if it had to—seize much of the...

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Alex Nguyen

Trump Can’t Stop Talking About Communists

When Donald Trump gets into a loop, it’s hard to get him out. He’ll just talk in a circle until he’s bored and moves on to the next thing. He...

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Sophie Hurwitz

Belgium’s Trump Dance Exposed the Collapse of the President’s Soft Power

Moments after scoring Belgium’s fourth goal against the hapless US Men’s National Soccer Team, Romelu Lukaku ran to the corner flag and joined his...

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Artis Curiskis

Trump Says He’ll Fast-Track Private Gas Plants to Power AI Data Centers

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In brief remarks to...

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Arcelia Martin

DOGE Ended on July 4, but the Workers Whose Lives Musk Upended Are Still Reeling

When Lucy found out she was pregnant in the summer of 2025, she might have been delighted. Instead, the news added to the uncertainty she’d been...

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Anna Rogers

The Secret Origins of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket

Last month, the Supreme Court issued a number of landmark opinions involving transgender rights, campaign finance, executive power, and immigration....

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The Democratic Party Failed Us With Graham Platner

A woman who dated Graham Platner said he sexually assaulted her, allegations that followed the stories of several other women who reported abuse at...

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Alex Nguyen

Palantir Has a Hand in NIH’s Most Ambitious Health Initiative

During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project....

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Julia Métraux

DHS Is Spending $1.5 Billion to Block ICE Oversight

The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two privately-run detention facilities from the for-profit prison company CoreCivic, the company...

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Sophie Hurwitz

What Author and Poet Victoria Chang Learned From Trees

Eucalyptus trees have been scattered across California since the 1850s, when they were brought over by Australians flocking to the Gold Rush. The...

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Jeffrey Kelly

Trump’s “Personal Vendetta” Against Wind Is Messing With American Livelihoods

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump has blamed...

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Michael Sainato

In Defense of Taylor Swift’s Bad Taste

“The more I read, the more embarrassed I am for everyone involved.” Secondhand humiliation was the looming theme of a group chat on July 3, as...

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Inae Oh

US Soccer Doesn’t Need a Big, Orange Thumb on the Scale

As the US men’s national soccer team prepares to face off against Belgium on Monday night, the question isn’t whether their aggressive and quick...

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Alex Nguyen

Wall Street Just Won’t Stop Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Expansion

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the past two years, more than a...

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Joseph Winters

“Morally reprehensible”: Prediction Markets Offer Bets on Wildfires

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sylvie Andrews and her...

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Kylie Mohr

Celebrating America Doesn’t Have to Mean Erasing Our History

In the leadup to the semiquincentennial, President Donald Trump has waged a war on topics he deems “divisive,” from DEI to critical race theory....

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Jeffrey Kelly

America’s 250th Birthday Will Be a Scorcher Not All Will Survive

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As New York City braces for an extreme...

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Emily Mullin

The Army Took Down Its Page Commemorating a Civil Rights Icon

Back in March, I wrote about the late Sarah Keys Evans, a Black veteran who played a key role in desegregating interstate travel. Before the summer of...

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Chasity Hale

Why America at 250 Still Cannot Face Slavery

When Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1980s, the city—one of America’s most prominent slave trading spaces before the Civil...

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America is 250 Years Old. Have You Ever Read the Declaration of Independence?

On a glorious morning walk about a week before America’s 250th birthday, I was listening to Jon Stewart’s podcast on that theme. I recommend it....

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Michael Mechanic And Thomas Jefferson

The Federal Government Has Made America 250 a Spectacle. These States Want It to Be a Moment for Reflection.

On New Year’s Eve, fireworks bloomed behind the Washington Monument. Along the side of the 550-foot structure, a birthday candle was projected,...

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Jeffrey Kelly

“He’s Mister Iran”: How Netanyahu Made a Better Iran Deal Impossible

In the four months since the US and Israel initiated their ongoing joint military campaign against Iran, the Trump administration’s negotiations...

02.07.2026 10

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Alex Nguyen

Watch: Trump’s Dystopia Takes Over the National Mall

“Loitering is not permitted in this area,” an audio recording sternly warns, as uniformed National Guard troops patrol Washington’s iconic,...

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Jeremy Schulman

I Talked to Trump Supporters About Cuts to the Train… on the Train

If you want to understand U.S. politics, take the train. The Trump administration’s federal budget request for the next fiscal year includes steep...

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Chris Vazquez

Trump Is Using Your Money to Pollute Our Air This July 4th

The Trump administration’s July 4th fireworks show will likely produce unhealthy levels of pollution at the National Mall and the surrounding...

02.07.2026 10

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Alex Nguyen