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The Reflecting Pool Mess Is Right Out of Trump’s Destructive Playbook

President Donald Trump is blaming “Vandalism” by “Radical Left Lunatics” for some of the struggles of his beloved Lincoln Memorial Reflecting...

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Alex Nguyen

Trump Takes Two Steps Back in Ending His Iran War

On Saturday, Iran’s military announced it had closed shipping along the Strait of Hormuz, saying the US violated its deal to end the war by allowing...

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Alex Nguyen

Our Hidden Fungal Networks Could Reach Beyond the Solar System

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hidden underground around...

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Wyatt Myskow

The Beautiful Game Is More Unaffordable Than Ever

The World Cup is here. For the first time, the tournament is happening in three countries at once: the United States, Mexico, and Canada. It’s...

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HHS Pushes Fetal Personhood in New Grant Guidelines

A recent funding notice from the Department of Health and Human Services seems to contain a message for the anti-abortion movement: the administration...

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Anna Rogers

Report: ICE Caused Humanitarian Crisis in Minnesota

The global NGO Human Rights Watch released a report Thursday alleging widespread human rights violations by the federal government during “Operation...

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Sophie Hurwitz

Kimberlé Crenshaw Says Juneteenth Reminds Us “Freedom Is Not a One and Done Situation”

I first heard the word “intersectionality” during an identity workshop I took in undergrad. Inside our student center, my classmates and I stood...

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Jeffrey Kelly

Trump and Iran: Stupid Is As Stupid Does

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

Long After the Climate Apocalypse, Maybe Some Being Will Find “Earth’s Black Box”

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was designed to survive the...

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Caitlin Cassidy

There Is No Social Security Crisis

Last week, most of the major news outlets ran the perennial story about how the Social Security fund is set to run out of money—now by 2032—and...

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Michael Mechanic

Grok Is More Important Than Clean Air, DOJ Says

The federal government intervened Monday in a Clean Air Act lawsuit in which people in Memphis, Tennessee, and Southaven, Mississippi, are suing Elon...

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Sophie Hurwitz

Republicans Question the US-Iran Deal. But Many Are Only Blaming JD Vance.

Many Republicans across the right are bashing interim deal between the US-Iran as an unnecessary surrender. “This is the worst foreign policy...

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Alex Nguyen

Trump DOJ Outlines Dubious Path to Force People Into Psychiatric Institutions

On Thursday, the Department of Justice quietly released a memo pertaining to the landmark 1999 disability civil rights case Olmstead v. L.C., which...

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Julia Métraux

Trump Administration Tells Federal Employees to Wear “Freedom” Pins—Or Else

The Trump administration is ordering National Park Service employees to wear pins promoting Freedom 250, a semi-private group that the president has...

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Dan Friedman

Trump’s Justice Department Backs Elon Musk in Data Center Lawsuit

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

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Dara Kerr

Trump Resurrected the Statue of a Slave Owner. Its Pedestal Cost Taxpayers $527K.

In April, the National Park Service placed a statue of Caesar Rodney, one of America’s Founding Fathers, in Freedom Plaza, a small park near the...

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Dan Friedman And Abby Vesoulis

DOJ’s New ICE Protest Indictment Is Its Most Absurd Yet

In the latest installment of Trump’s campaign against anti-ICE protesters, the Department of Justice has charged 15 Minneapolis-area residents for...

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Sophie Hurwitz

The Iran War Isn’t Ending Any Time Soon

Despite yet another round of Trumpian pomp and circumstance around the president’s supposed deal to end the war in Iran, the agreement between the...

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Alex Nguyen

College Grads Are Rejecting AI En Masse

‘Tis the season of college commencement—and this year, it’s also the time for booing commencement speakers, who have made AI their go-to topic...

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Alissa Quart

Elon Musk: The World’s Worst Trillionaire

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

Judge Says EPA Illegally Cancelled a $2.8 Billion Environmental Justice Program

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A federal judge in South...

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Lauren Dalban

Bryan Stevenson on Confronting America’s Legacy of 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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RFK Jr. Will Oversee Disability Education Policy

On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced that it would move two key functions of the Department of Education—disability education oversight...

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Julia Métraux

How Disability Shaped American Citizenship

We tend to treat disability politics as a modern phenomenon, the product of disability civil rights movements in the latter part of the 20th century....

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Julia Métraux

The White House Cage Fight Was Spectacular—And Spectacularly Corrupt

As the UFC fighters left their locker rooms Sunday night and headed out to the Octagon, they strutted through the Oval Office—a space once so...

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Russ Choma

Here’s What Americans Really Blame for Causing Energy Price Hikes

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, American politicians have...

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Kate Yoder

She Froze After Being Released by ICE. The Medical Examiner Ruled It a Homicide.

Daphy Michel, a 31-year-old Haitian asylum seeker, was found dead of hypothermia at a Pittsburgh bus stop March 2, three days after being released...

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Sophie Hurwitz

The UFC’s Despicable Night at the White House

I had never heard of Josh Hokit until the other week. But the little I quickly learned about the immigrant-bashing, trans-hating Ultimate Fighting...

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Inae Oh

No Sanctuary: Inside Ron DeSantis’s War on Cities That Won’t Help ICE

Under a cloudless sky and the blazing Florida sun, about 25 people gathered on a recent Sunday near the entrance of the Pinellas County jail, posting...

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Laura C. Morel

People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Right Pissed About the SpaceX IPO

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s behemoth company...

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Molly Taft

Trump Wants Reporters to Know He’s Very Mad at Netanyahu

Update, June 14, 6:10 pm: Trump announced Sunday evening that his deal with Iran “is now complete.” The president wrote on Truth Social: “I...

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Sophie Hurwitz

The Oligarchy Attends a Cage Fight

While New Yorkers nurse Knicks-championship hangovers in Donald Trump’s hometown, the president is celebrating his 80th birthday tonight by inviting...

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Sophie Hurwitz

Nature No Longer Smells So Natural—and That’s Our Fault

This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Across the globe, human activities...

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Hannah Thomasy

Trump Blocks Foreigners From Using Anthropic’s Latest AI Tech

On Friday night, the AI giant Anthropic said that the US government had ordered it to suspend foreign nationals, including employees, from all use of...

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Alex Nguyen

With Kennedy Center Setback, Trump Is Losing His War on “Woke” National Placards

On Saturday morning, Kennedy Center officials confirmed that they had removed all signs with President Trump’s name from the building after a...

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Alex Nguyen

The Department of Homeland Security Is “Kidnapping People’s Kids”

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche gave a press conference on Thursday to tell reporters about...

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Samantha Michaels

Want a Deal on a Heat Pump? Team up With Your Neighbors.

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last year, Marie Tai needed a...

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Alison F. Takemura

The Plague in the Shadows

Decades before Covid-19, the AIDS epidemic tore through communities in the US and around the world. It has killed some 40 million people and continues...

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Why No Human Being Should Ever Be Allowed to Have a Trillion Dollars

Could you count to a trillion? Oh, hell no. I just timed myself counting to 100 as fast as I could. It took 38 seconds. The higher you count, the...

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Michael Mechanic

The UFC’s Biggest Cards Nearly Always Include Women. Except at Freedom 250.

When Americans tune into UFC Freedom 250, the series of mixed martial arts fights taking over the White House on President Trump’s 80th birthday...

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Inae Oh

Trump Is Targeting Immigrants From Places Hardest Hit by Climate Shocks

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

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Oliver Milman

Karmelo Anthony and the Futility of Claiming Self-Defense While Black

Last spring, during a track meet at a Texas high school, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, a white student and fellow...

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Arianna Coghill

You Will Be Shocked to Learn That Donald Trump Pardoned a Corrupt Politician

With Donald Trump’s pardon of former Indiana Rep. Steve Buyer over the weekend, he has now pardoned at least 11 former GOP politicians, almost all...

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Russ Choma

Trump’s Deportation Machine Is Still Targeting Pro-Palestinian Protesters

An immigration judge has ordered the deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mohsen Mahdawi, who is Palestinian, to Jordan in a legal...

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Sophie Hurwitz

Sportswashed: FIFA’s Long Love Affair With Authoritarians

The last major tournament staged by FIFA, the body behind the World Cup, was last summer’s Club World Cup—an international tournament where Donald...

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Alex Nguyen

FIFA Peace Prize Recipient Vows to Hit Iran ‘VERY HARD’ on First Night of World Cup

On Thursday, President Donald Trump said that the US would strike Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT,” in a bid to “assume total control of their Oil and...

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Alex Nguyen

We Need to Talk About Black Women and Uterine Cancer

I grew up in a household of women who didn’t talk much about their reproductive health. Period talks were reserved for hushed tones, always behind...

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Arianna Coghill

In the United States, Solar Energy is Outpacing Coal for the First Time Ever

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Solar energy just provided more...

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Tik Root

Utah Voters Finally Got a Fair Map. Republicans Are Making Sure It Never Happens Again.

President Donald Trump’s plummeting popularity has promised a bloodbath for Republicans in this year’s midterm elections. To head off that...

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Stephanie Mencimer

The World Cup’s First Score: Union 1, Owners 0

In a 99-1 vote Wednesday night, food and beverage workers staffing Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium for the FIFA Men’s World Cup ratified an agreement...

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Alex Nguyen