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Trump’s Iran War Is Going Backward

On Saturday, a senior Iranian national security official issued a set of demands that the US must meet before a key waterway for oil shipping can be...

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Alex Nguyen

Once More Cassidy Had the Deciding Vote. Once More He Folded.

Early Saturday morning, the Senate voted to confirm Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the official role after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) caved...

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Alex Nguyen

The Internet Has Been Very Interested in Trump’s New Hair

For many of us, news about the new presidential coiffeur first appeared in our podcast feeds this week. But listening instead of looking at YouTube...

yesterday 1

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Marianne Szegedy-Maszak

Trump’s EPA Is Using This Sneaky Tactic to Let Nasty Industries Foul Our Air

This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Recently, millions of Americans have...

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Richard L. Revesz

40 Acres and a Lie Part 1

Patricia Bailey’s four-bedroom home sits high among the trees in lush Edisto Island, South Carolina. It’s a peaceful place where her body healed...

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Reveal

The US Lost 23,000 Jobs in July

The Labor Department reported Friday that American nonfarm employers cut 23,000 jobs in July, a drop some attribute to employers’ wariness to hire...

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Sophie Hurwitz

The Iran War’s Other Bill—And You’re Paying It

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently told Congress that the US government has spent an estimated $37.5 billion to date on the Iran war and...

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Amanda Pike

Trump Keeps Spending US Tax Dollars to Kill Offshore Wind and Boost Oil and Gas

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The German energy company RWE...

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Maya Yang

Trump Keeps Spending US Tax Dollars to Kill Offshore Wind and Boost Oil and Gas

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The German energy company RWE...

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Maya Yang

The Quiet War on Immigrants, Round Two

In 2019, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) denounced a “stealth anti-immigration campaign” by the first Trump administration. Through a combination of...

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Isabela Dias

What Is the White House Hiding in Its Minerals Deals?

Today, the consumer protection watchdog group Public Citizen released a report detailing the Trump administration’s secretive web of critical...

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Sophie Hurwitz

Rep. Max Miller Has a History of Withholding His Daughter’s Blue Bunny

“Max, Can REDACTED please have her bunny back? She’s had it since birth, sleeps with it every night, carries it with her around the house…Please...

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Abby Vesoulis

What AI Regulation and Ownership Could Be

As an ordinary internet user, I am skeptical about AI. My colleagues and I have reported on several harmful aspects of the technology in the US:...

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Alex Nguyen

A Commission Monitoring Human Rights Violations Is Concerned About the US

On Tuesday afternoon, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights convened in Washington, DC, to hear complaints about excessive use of force and...

thursday 3

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Isabela Dias

This Judge Figures Using the Misleading Recycling Symbol is Probably Free Speech

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A pioneering California law meant to...

thursday 4

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Joseph Winters

The Deaths ICE Doesn’t Count

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano spent his 29th birthday on July 10 in Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center. In the privately-run facility that can hold about...

thursday 4

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Isabela Dias

She Followed ICE’s Advice to Self-Deport. Five Weeks Later, She Was Dead.

When 25-year-old Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz took her three daughters and boarded a plane from St. Louis to Guatemala City on June 17, her...

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Sophie Hurwitz

The Lost Hiroshima Memoir

At 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a minister who presided over a Methodist church in Hiroshima, was two miles outside the...

thursday 6

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David Corn

Police Footage Shows Rep. Max Miller Downplaying His Daughter’s Broken Collarbone

On July 18, Mother Jones published an exhaustive article on a number of assault and domestic abuse allegations swirling around Ohio Republican Rep....

05.08.2026 5

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Abby Vesoulis

Trump-Endorsed Candidate Loses Michigan Primary to a Man Who Dropped Out

A candidate who suspended his campaign a month ago, spent no money, and endorsed his own rival won Michigan’s 8th Congressional District GOP primary...

05.08.2026 5

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Alex Nguyen

Michigan’s Primary Reckoning for the Democrats

No congressional candidate in Democratic history ever had as much outside money dumped on them in one primary as Abdul El-Sayed. But El-Sayed has now...

05.08.2026 4

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Noah Lanard

Heat Is Killing Texas Prisoners, and State Leaders Won’t Shell Out for AC

This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bernhardt Tiede has diabetes and...

05.08.2026 6

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Nicholas E. Stewart

How Elon Musk Is Re-Engineering the World

Elon Musk is an avatar of digital capitalism: He both embodies and defines it. In “Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed,” co-author Quinn Slobodian...

05.08.2026 3

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New York Tackles the Myth That Solar Is Swallowing Farmland

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In rural areas across the US,...

04.08.2026 6

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Wesley Bell and Cori Bush Head for a Rematch

In Tuesday’s Democratic congressional primary, voters in Missouri’s first district will decide whether to re-elect moderate incumbent Congressman...

04.08.2026 5

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Sophie Hurwitz

Rep. Max Miller’s Withdrawal Window Closes in Six Days

Facing allegations of domestic violence against ex-wife Emily Moreno, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) said via livestream on Sunday that he has no intention...

04.08.2026 7

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Abby Vesoulis

“Not All Cubans Are MAGA”: The Cuban Women Who Broke With the GOP

Maria Eugenia Laurencio—who was 12 years old when her family left Cuba and settled in Beaumont, Texas— was a lifelong Republican. When her parents...

04.08.2026 5

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Laura C. Morel

Stop Sharing Lindsay Clancy’s Medication List

As with countless courtroom proceedings that have been sensationalized, the agonizing testimony during the opening days of the murder trial of Lindsay...

04.08.2026 6

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Inae Oh

Right-Wing Media Is Attacking Francesca Hong for Mental Health History

Over the weekend, right-wing media, including the Post Millennial and the Gateway Pundit, resurfaced a 2023 interview featuring Wisconsin...

04.08.2026 9

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Julia Métraux

Oh Look, Another Far-Right Extremist at the Pentagon

I’ve written before about how US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ties to an ascendant Christian nationalist movement. Specifically, he attends a...

04.08.2026 8

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Kiera Butler

As For-Profit Companies Battle Over ICE Contracts, Immigrants Are Caught in the Middle

This story is a collaboration between Mother Jones, POGO Investigates, and the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. William...

03.08.2026 7

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Dan Friedman

Environmentalists Are Rolling Their Eyes at Trump’s “Ratepayer Protection Pledge”

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

03.08.2026 6

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Dharna Noor

DHS Wants To Build A Border Wall Through Tohono O’odham Land. It’s Another Instance of The US Undermining Tribal Sovereignty.

In May, the Department of Homeland Security informed the Tohono O’odham Nation, the largest Native nation located along an international border,...

03.08.2026 9

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Cheyenne McNeill

Does the Washington Post Want Democracy to Die in Darkness?

The Washington Post sure seems bent out of shape over wealth taxes. And I suppose that makes sense, given that the once-storied publication is owned...

03.08.2026 7

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Michael Mechanic

Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno Says Max Miller is Unfit to Hold Office

Shortly after Congressman Max Miller (R-Ohio) went live on X to defend himself against recent reporting by Mother Jones documenting allegations of...

02.08.2026 10

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Abby Vesoulis

I Like Baseball Now.

Admittedly, I don’t know much about baseball—but I do know that watching the first home run of the Women’s Professional Baseball League on...

02.08.2026 7

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Alex Nguyen

A Battle Over Rock Climbing Exposes a Bigger Crisis in America’s Wilderness

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A decades-long debate over...

02.08.2026 8

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Christine Peterson

George Santos Got Busted For Manipulating Political Betting Markets—and Seems to Have Little Remorse

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced Friday that former congressman and current legend George Santos has been fined $35,000 for...

01.08.2026 7

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Sophie Hurwitz

“The ICE Agent Behind Me Grabbed the Back of My Shirt and Just Threw Me Like a Sack of Trash”

A 68-year-old nurse who brought her mobile clinic to serve visitors at an ICE detention center, only to be thrown to the ground by ICE agents. A pair...

01.08.2026 7

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Sophie Hurwitz

The Ticks Are Winning

This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ticks are taking over the United States....

01.08.2026 10

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Danielle Hewitt And Sean Rameswaram

“If I Prove That You Can Win Statewide Taking on AIPAC, That is Catastrophic”

On July 8, Abdul El-Sayed had just wrapped up a campaign stop inside a sweltering church auditorium in Ferndale, Michigan. The room was packed with...

01.08.2026 8

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Najib Aminy

The Post-Roe Surprise: More Abortions

Access to medication abortion in the years since Covid and the fall of Roe v. Wade has completely reshaped the abortion access landscape in America....

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How Michigan Became the Most Expensive Democratic Primary Ever

Next Tuesday’s contest in Michigan between Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens holds a dubious distinction: No Democratic congressional primary in...

31.07.2026 4

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Noah Lanard

Democrats Call for Ethics Investigation Into Congressman Max Miller

Several Democratic members of Congress are requesting the House Ethics Committee investigate their colleague, Congressman Max Miller (R-OH), over...

31.07.2026 6

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Abby Vesoulis

The Kushner-Backed FIFA Takeover Tearing the Soccer World Apart

For a long time, Gianni Infantino, the ubiquitous president of FIFA, and Jared Kushner, the businessman and Middle East peace envoy, have seemed...

31.07.2026 6

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Tim Murphy

The Next Victim of Trump’s Political Prosecutions? Congressional Oversight.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped lead the national response to the Covid-19 pandemic as the country’s longtime chief infectious disease expert, invoked...

31.07.2026 7

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Pema Levy

Can Opposing Data Centers Help Progressives Win?

When Donald Trump came to Michigan last week to speak at a General Motors vehicle-testing facility, he likely expected to find a friendly crowd. That...

31.07.2026 5

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Sophie Hurwitz

How Can US Factories Get Cleaner Heat? These Ideas May Help.

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. American households are all too...

31.07.2026 6

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Maria Gallucci

France Had Never Seen a “Fire Cloud” Until This Month’s Record-Smashing Blazes

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Firefighters in France are confronting...

30.07.2026 5

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Brian Kahn

Covid Truthers Are Claiming Fauci’s Diary Was “Scrubbed”

On Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released a trove of diary entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the 85-year-old immunologist and public health veteran who...

29.07.2026 8

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Kiera Butler