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The Supreme Court Turns Its Sights on Trans Athletes

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The US Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear a pair of cases in the fall involving state laws in that ban transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ and women’s school sports. The cases originate in Idaho, which passed the country’s first trans youth sports ban in 2020, and West Virginia, which […]

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The Choice Some Pregnant Immigrants Face: Deportation or Parenthood

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Shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, and Texas completely outlawed abortion in communities along the Rio Grande Valley, the effect was swift. In this region, which is home to 1.4 million residents, most of them Latinx or immigrants, the area’s only abortion clinic in McAllen was forced to shut down. “When we […]

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Trump’s FCC Scraps Ban on Prison Phone Price Gouging, a Gift to Some of His Top Donors

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This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. The Federal Communications Commission will no longer enforce a rule capping the price of prison phone calls, according to an announcement made Monday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. The move suspends a 2024 FCC decision that capped the price of in-state phone calls at 6 cents […]

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Here are the Declaration of Independence’s Grievances Against King George III. Many Apply to Trump.

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When Thomas Jefferson was writing the Declaration of Independence in the weeks leading up July 4, 1776, he wanted to not only rely on just high-falutin enlightenment ideals to justify the case for separation from Great Britain. His aim was also to present a slam-dunk indictment of King George III—to prove that the royal was […]

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What $100 Billion in New ICE Funding Looks Like

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President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic agenda, which seeks to inject plutocratic ideology and disdain for the poor into nearly every corner of American life, is on the verge of passage. Its success comes despite overwhelming unpopularity and official estimates that it will add $4.1 trillion to the national debt while slashing $930 billion from Medicaid […]

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How Zohran Mamdani Tied Climate Policy to Voters’ Pocketbook Issues

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As she canvassed for Zohran Mamdani in New York City on Tuesday last week, Batul Hassan should have been elated. Her mayoral candidate—a 33-year-old state assemblymember—was surging in the polls and would within hours soundly defeat Andrew Cuomo on first preference […]

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Has MAGA Killed Satire?

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In June, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced plans to build an immigrant detention center on an unused airstrip in the Everglades. “There’s not much waiting for them except alligators and pythons,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a video on social media, suggesting that the detention center’s location in the middle of a swamp […]

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Just Killed the “Zombie” Abortion Law

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When Wisconsin voters flipped the ideological balance of the state’s supreme court in 2023, abortion was very much on their minds. Specifically, abortion opponents were arguing that with the demise of Roe v Wade the year before, the state’s 1849 near-total abortion ban—invalidated by Roe but never overturned by lawmakers, so still technically on the […]

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This Term, the Supreme Court Gave Favors to Its MAGA Allies on Two Tracks

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Last week, the Supreme Court ended a term unlike any other. The Roberts Court, with its 6-3 majority of Republican appointees, continued to issue partisan opinions that pleased the wealthy interests that fund the conservative legal movement while abetting the new Trump administration on its lawless rampage against immigrants, federal agencies, Congress, the courts, and […]

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Jeffrey Goldberg on Signalgate, Pete Hegseth, and the Risk of WWIII

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In March, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, glanced at his phone and couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He’d been inadvertently included in a secret chat on Signal among the Trump administration’s national security team about imminent military strikes in Yemen. The Signal chat leaks—which inevitably became known as “Signalgate”—called into question President Donald Trump’s […]

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The Murky Relationship Between the Hindu American Foundation and an Indian Embassy

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In early June, a gurdwara in Fremont, California shared a potential bombshell document on X. Obtained through public records requests, the legal note implied that the Hindu American Foundation (HAF)—an advocacy group for the Hindu diaspora in the United States—maintains a “fiduciary” relationship with the Indian embassy in Washington, D.C.  It could have massive consequences: […]

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Why So Many Low-Income Households Can’t Afford This Free Home Improvement Program

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal Weatherization Assistance Program is the oldest and largest energy efficiency initiative in American history. Born from the 1973 oil crisis, it helps low- and moderate-income households make a litany of upgrades to their homes, such as installing insulation, sealing windows, and […]

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