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Inside the Hidden Conservative Network Bankrolling an “Ecosystem” of Right-Wing News

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“Now more than ever, the world needs an honest newsroom.” With these words, the little-known Informing America Foundation was awarded the $250,000 Gregor G. Peterson Prize in “venture philanthropy” last December for its “high-quality journalism.” If few had heard of IAF, hinted the nonprofit’s CEO, Debbie Myers, it was by design. “We stay very much […]

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If Donald Trump Was Incapacitated, Would We Know? 

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The president disappeared just long enough for the speculation to begin, and for the press to start asking questions. The year was 1893, and Grover Cleveland had a tumor on the roof of his mouth. Fearing that news of his illness would make him seem weak, Cleveland arranged to have it secretly removed on a […]

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If Donald Trump Were Incapacitated, Would We Know?

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The president disappeared just long enough for the speculation to begin, and for the press to start asking questions. The year was 1893, and Grover Cleveland had a tumor on the roof of his mouth. Fearing that news of his illness would make him seem weak, Cleveland arranged to have it secretly removed on a […]

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The Threat That Could Destroy 20 Years of Progress in the Lower Ninth

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This story was published in partnership with Capital B. Willie Calhoun knows how to live with water. His home, cradled between the Mississippi River and a patchwork of canals, is split by the surging, ever-present current. But it wasn’t always that way in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Before the city’s largest aqueduct, known as the […]

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Utilities Are Usually Hostile to Solar and Battery Systems, but Not for These Rural Customers

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Michael Gillogly, manager of the Pepperwood Preserve, understands the wildfire risk that power lines pose firsthand. The 3,200-acre nature reserve in Sonoma County, California, burned in 2017 when a privately owned electrical system sparked a fire. It burned again in 2019 during a conflagration started by power lines operated by utility […]

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Being Black in America Almost Killed Me Part 2

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When Trymaine Lee began writing his first book, he didn’t realize that the gun violence he was reporting on was such a central part of his own story. But then he began digging into his family history, only to fully learn about a series of racially motivated murders involving his ancestors. Lee’s book, A Thousand […]

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Democratic Voters Want their Leaders to Stop Running From Zohran Mamdani

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Zohran Mamdani hadn’t been Regina Weiss’ first choice for mayor of New York City. She’d ranked city comptroller Brad Lander number-one on her primary ballot in June, and told me she wished that the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist state assemblymember brought a bit more experience to the job. But Weiss, who volunteers with Indivisible, was happily […]

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Nobody Wants This Dirty Gas Plant. Trump is Forcing It To Stay Open.

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration, citing an ongoing “energy emergency,” has once again saddled a community already overburdened by pollution with a dirty, obsolete power plant it doesn’t want or need. The decision has confounded residents and environmental justice advocates, who called the […]

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Supreme Court Blesses Racial Profiling by ICE

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In greater Los Angeles, the Trump administration’s goal of deporting millions of people is being operationalized through often violent raids that target people who appear Latino while waiting for the bus or working in low-wage jobs. A shorter way to say this is racial profiling of low-income people. Today, the Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme […]

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Trump’s Birthday Letter to Epstein Is Out

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In July, the Wall Street Journal reported on the existence of a birthday note from President Donald Trump to his one-time friend Jeffrey Epstein. The paper had claimed that the missive included a lewd image depicting the outline of a woman’s body and Trump’s signature, which was described as mimicking the appearance of pubic hair. […]

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The One Crime Trump Doesn’t Seem to Have a Problem With? Domestic Violence.

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Speaking at the Museum of the Bible on Monday, President Donald Trump repeated one of his favorite falsehoods as of late: That his deployment of the National Guard in Washington, DC, has virtually eliminated crime in the nation’s capital. That is, of course, not true. But if that outright falsehood was not egregious enough, consider […]

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Impeach RFK Jr.

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The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Of all the unqualified extremists Donald Trump has appointed to his Cabinet, Robert […]

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