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You Don’t Have to Love Afroman to Like Police Accountability

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...

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Alex Nguyen

Trump Wants $200 Billion for Bombs. Here’s What That Could Buy Instead.

“It takes money to kill bad guys.” That’s how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth justified reports that the Pentagon is requesting $200 billion in...

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Tim Murphy

Joe Kent’s Resignation Is Tearing MAGA Apart

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...

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Noah Lanard

Mr. Rogers and the Fight for Public Media

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...

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Reveal

A Clarinetist, a High School Student, and Some Climate Deniers Write a Science Paper

This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It sounds...

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Jessica Mckenzie

Mr. Rogers and the Fight for Public Media

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...

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Exploding Pintos, Imploding Politics: Celebrating 50 Years of Fearless Journalism

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...

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Workers in Colorado Have Shut Down One of the Nation’s Biggest Meatpacking Plants

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...

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Ted Genoways

“I Wish I Could Send More”: How Exiled Cubans Are Keeping the Island Alive

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...

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Laura C. Morel

Democrats Urge Windfall Tax as Oil Firms Prepare to Cash in on the Iran War

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...

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Dharna Noor

ICE Is Ignoring Rules Put in Place to Avoid Family Separations, Researchers Say

In November, a 22-year-old woman disembarked from her deportation flight in Honduras, five months pregnant and distraught. Immigration officers in the...

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Samantha Michaels

Dolores Huerta Worried Her Abuse by Cesar Chavez Would Hurt Farmworker Movement

United Farm Workers co-founder and labor activist Dolores Huerta went public Wednesday with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following...

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Katie Herchenroeder

DHS Waited Until It Was Sued to Remind ICE Agents About the First Amendment

The Trump administration is scrambling to cover its tracks amid legislative pressure and a First Amendment lawsuit over its alleged “domestic...

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Schuyler Mitchell

DHS Keeps Attacking Americans. Trump’s Nominee Loves Duels. What Could Go Wrong?

“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...

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Alex Nguyen

The World Is on Fire. Gas Prices Are Rising. Republicans Are Trying to Make it Harder to Vote.

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...

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Ari Berman

Global Heating Accelerated Rapidly Over the Past Decade, a New Study Claims

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For years, scientists have been keeping...

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Rebecca Egan Mccarthy

Joe Kent Resigns From Trump Administration Over Iran War

Joe Kent has resigned as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center in protest of President Donald Trump’s ongoing war against Iran. Kent,...

17.03.2026 2

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Noah Lanard

Dr. Oz Calls Medicare Fraud an Epidemic. Trump Keeps Pardoning the Culprits.

On Tuesday, the oversight and investigations arm of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing to discuss alleged Medicare and Medicaid...

17.03.2026 3

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Julia Métraux

Tennessee Teens Sue Elon Musk’s xAI Over Child Sexual Abuse Images

Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk’s company xAI over allegations that its artificial intelligence tool Grok undressed photos of them as...

17.03.2026 1

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Katie Herchenroeder

Warming Oceans and Waterways Threaten a Key Human Protein Source

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,...

17.03.2026 4

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Johnny sturgeon

The Minneapolis “Dirtbag Lawyer” Challenging ICE Detentions—and Winning

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...

17.03.2026 3

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Daniel suitor as told to isabela dias

Top Architecture Firm Won’t Design More ICE Prisons After Employees Revolt

For three years, Andrew Osborne helped his bosses promote the idea that good design could make imprisonment more humane. As a public relations...

16.03.2026 10

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Madison Pauly

Trump: Help, the Iran War Is Going Great

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...

16.03.2026 2

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Alex Nguyen

This Oscar-Winning Doc Says Now’s the Time to Resist

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...

16.03.2026 5

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David ritsher

Trump Once Did a Deal With Oligarchs Allegedly Linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

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...

16.03.2026 6

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Russ Choma

Middle East Desalination Plant Attacks Highlight Risks of Relying on “Fossil Fuel Water”

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Recent attacks in the...

16.03.2026 6

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Phil Mckenna

Hegseth’s Pentagon Is Trying to Turn a Newspaper for Troops into Propaganda

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...

15.03.2026 8

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Noah Lanard

FCC Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcast Licenses Over Iran War Coverage

Amid surging oil prices and an unpopular war of choice in Iran, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is threatening not to renew the...

15.03.2026 6

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Noah Lanard

Nature’s Ability to Adapt to Human Activities Seems to be Slowing Down

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...

15.03.2026 5

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Fred Pearce

First Trump Scrapped “DEI” Coins. Now the New Dime Is Losing the Olive Branch.

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....

14.03.2026 6

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Schuyler Mitchell

First Trump Scrapped “DEI” Coins. Now the New Dime Is Losing the Olive Branch.

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....

14.03.2026 7

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Schuyler Mitchell

The Trump Administration Will Somehow Make $10 Billion Off the TikTok Deal

The yearslong battle over TikTok’s ownership has concluded in a $10 billion windfall for the Trump administration. On Friday, the Wall Street...

14.03.2026 7

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Schuyler Mitchell

A Federal Judge Just Called Out the DOJ for Politically Motivated Prosecutions

Federal Judge James Boasberg quashed two grand jury subpoenas on Friday afternoon that are part of the Justice Department’s criminal investigation...

14.03.2026 8

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Pema Levy And Patrick Caldwell

The Racist Hoax That Changed Boston

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...

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This Oscar-Nominated Doc Says Now’s the Time to Resist

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...

13.03.2026 5

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David ritsher

The Other Iran War Crisis: It’s Threatening Global Food Supplies

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...

13.03.2026 6

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Ayurella Horn-Muller

Tommy Tuberville Didn’t Just “Suggest” Muslims Are the Enemy. He Said It With His Chest.

On Thursday, college football coach turned Senate dunce Tommy Tuberville took to X to quote-retweet a post from the account @EndWokeness. The original...

13.03.2026 5

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Jamilah King

MAGA’s Baby Boom and Me

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...

13.03.2026 5

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Inae Oh

Utah Moves to Rein In Its Runaway Private Adoption Industry

For years, Utah has been a hub of the private adoption industry, drawing pregnant women and prospective adoptive parents from across the country...

13.03.2026 5

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Julia Lurie

ASL Interpreters Are Unionizing—And They Say They’re Getting Fired For It

On a quick break between calls, Kathleen’s coworker asked her where she could learn more about unionization efforts at their company. Check...

13.03.2026 7

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Julia Métraux

Trump’s New Nuclear Nightmare in Iran

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...

12.03.2026 3

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David Corn

Bugs Were Supposed to be the Future of Food. Now, the Industry is Collapsing.

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...

12.03.2026 5

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Kenny Torrella

Class Struggle, But Weird: The Surreal Politics of This Year’s Oscar Nominees

This article was produced in collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, which supports independent journalists as they forward fresh...

11.03.2026 6

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Alissa Quart

US Responsible For Killing Iranian Schoolchildren, Investigation Finds. Trump Previously Blamed Iran.

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...

11.03.2026 4

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Katie Herchenroeder

Thanks to Trump, Petro-Imperialism Is Back

Following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran beginning in late February, Iran has effectively halted all traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a...

11.03.2026 6

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Alex Nguyen

A Dumb War Makes Trumpworld Dumber

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...

11.03.2026 3

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David Corn

The Pro-MAGA Press Can’t Agree on How to Cover Trump’s War on Iran

Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth conducted a remarkably peevish press conference on the United States and Israel’s attacks on Iran. At...

11.03.2026 7

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Anna Merlan

Bombing of Iranian Oil Facilities Is Causing a Health and Environmental Nightmare

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...

11.03.2026 8

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Damien Gayle

How RFK Jr. is Dismantling America’s Health Policies

The new food pyramid says it all. In January, the federal government released updated dietary guidelines for Americans that reimagine the pyramid by...

11.03.2026 3

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How Taxpayers Are Still Getting Screwed on Kristi Noem’s Big Beautiful Jet

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...

10.03.2026 4

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Nick schwellenbach and dan friedman