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Cops failed spectacularly at using the courts to clamp down on a critic this week. That critic was the rapper Afroman, who created music videos...
“It takes money to kill bad guys.” That’s how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth justified reports that the Pentagon is requesting $200 billion in...
If you were to invent a politician ideally suited to appeal to the MAGA base, you might come up with something like this: A classically handsome white...
On the anniversary of Fred Rogers birthday, we take a trip to Mr. Rogers’ real life neighborhood in this special episode that celebrates the life...
This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It sounds...
On the anniversary of Fred Rogers birthday, we take a trip to Mr. Rogers’ real life neighborhood in this special episode that celebrates the life...
Fifty years ago, in a small San Francisco office above a fast-food restaurant, a handful of plucky journalists started a new magazine. It was a time...
This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. On Monday at 5:30 a.m., more than three thousand employees at...
My mother and her family left Cuba when she was 15 years old, four years after Fidel Castro’s revolution claimed their island home. They arrived in...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With big oil companies poised to...
In November, a 22-year-old woman disembarked from her deportation flight in Honduras, five months pregnant and distraught. Immigration officers in the...
United Farm Workers co-founder and labor activist Dolores Huerta went public Wednesday with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following...
The Trump administration is scrambling to cover its tracks amid legislative pressure and a First Amendment lawsuit over its alleged “domestic...
“Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken, and a damaged lung. Tell me to my face.” “You told...
The world is on fire. Gas prices are rising. The US economy is in shambles. President Trump has bulldozed through his promise of “no new wars” and...
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For years, scientists have been keeping...
Joe Kent has resigned as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center in protest of President Donald Trump’s ongoing war against Iran. Kent,...
On Tuesday, the oversight and investigations arm of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing to discuss alleged Medicare and Medicaid...
Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk’s company xAI over allegations that its artificial intelligence tool Grok undressed photos of them as...
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the world’s waters,...
On January 7, Daniel Suitor raced the less than half a mile from his home to the spot where a federal immigration agent had just killed Renée Good in...
For three years, Andrew Osborne helped his bosses promote the idea that good design could make imprisonment more humane. As a public relations...
Donald Trump painted his military campaign in Iran with the same gold shine as his plans for the new Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in remarks...
This post has been updated to reflect that Mr. Nobody Against Putin won the Best Documentary Oscar on March 15, 2026. Pavel Talankin is a teacher from...
In the opening days of his war against Iran, Donald Trump had a message for members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps: Surrender and get...
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Recent attacks in the...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has come up with a plan to limit the independence of Stars and Stripes, the news publication for...
Amid surging oil prices and an unpopular war of choice in Iran, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is threatening not to renew the...
This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nature is slowing down, and its...
When Charles Thomson and William Barton designed the Great Seal of the United States more than 200 years ago, they were unambiguous about its meaning....
When Charles Thomson and William Barton designed the Great Seal of the United States more than 200 years ago, they were unambiguous about its meaning....
The yearslong battle over TikTok’s ownership has concluded in a $10 billion windfall for the Trump administration. On Friday, the Wall Street...
Federal Judge James Boasberg quashed two grand jury subpoenas on Friday afternoon that are part of the Justice Department’s criminal investigation...
In 1989, Chuck Stuart called 911 on his car phone to report a shooting. He said he and his wife were leaving a birthing class at a Boston hospital...
Pavel Talankin is a teacher from a small mining town in Central Russia. He spent two and a half years documenting how his school was conscripted into...
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Up until the end of February, a steady...
On Thursday, college football coach turned Senate dunce Tommy Tuberville took to X to quote-retweet a post from the account @EndWokeness. The original...
Who could have guessed they would be the ones on my mind? It was a personal appointment, perhaps the most intimate variety, and MAGA characters...
For years, Utah has been a hub of the private adoption industry, drawing pregnant women and prospective adoptive parents from across the country...
On a quick break between calls, Kathleen’s coworker asked her where she could learn more about unionization efforts at their company. Check...
Donald Trump says he’s bombing Iran to prevent the regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon. But he may be providing with Tehran more incentive to...
This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “We have to get used to the idea of...
This article was produced in collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, which supports independent journalists as they forward fresh...
The United States is responsible for killing at least 175 people, many of them children, in a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school...
Following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran beginning in late February, Iran has effectively halted all traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a...
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...
Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth conducted a remarkably peevish press conference on the United States and Israel’s attacks on Iran. At...
This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Israel’s bombing of Iran’s oil...
The new food pyramid says it all. In January, the federal government released updated dietary guidelines for Americans that reimagine the pyramid by...
Kristi Noem is out as Homeland Security Secretary, but a luxury 737 she has traveled on remains in government hands. That plane, reportedly dubbed the...