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The “Zohran Mamdani of North Carolina” Took on an Incumbent Democrat in This Primary Race. Now It’s Likely Headed for a Recount.

A progressive challenger who has embraced comparisons to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is narrowly trailing North Carolina incumbent Rep. Valerie Foushee in a contest that seems likely headed to a recount after Tuesday’s primary. Foushee currently leads Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam by about 2,200 votes in North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District, which encompasses deep-blue […]


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Kristi Noem Doubles Down on the Violence

In her second day of hearings before Congress, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem refused during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday to acknowledge that federal agents have and continue to violently detain US citizens in Minnesota and across the country. Forget about that, Noem suggested—blame Democrats. “Today [Democrats] are defending citizens because they know they […]


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Well, if this isn’t corruption in plain sight. If you don’t want consequences for breaking the law, then don’t break the law.

The Justice Department is now attempting to step into disciplinary cases being handled by state bar associations against its …


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A New Regional War Could Be More Devastating Than 25 Years of “Forever Wars”

Iran is aiming for a war of attrition with the world’s biggest military superpower and another nuclear-armed state.


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The Future in Texas Is Bright and Terrifying

Get ready to hear a lot more about James Talarico. The Texas state representative won the Democratic US Senate primary on Tuesday, defeating Jasmine Crockett—a high-profile member of Congress representing Dallas—in a race that pitted two candidates with a knack for garnering attention and diverging theories of the electorate. Talarico, who I recently profiled, is […]


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She Quit Her Job to Fight for Her Father’s Freedom—and for Everyone Else Inside Alligator Alcatraz

On a recent Sunday afternoon, Arianne Betancourt stood across the road from the infamous Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention camp that opened last year in Florida by the Everglades. Her 54-year-old Cuban father, Justo Betancourt, is among the roughly 1,500 immigrants detained there.  Before her father’s arrest, Betancourt, a 33-year-old Miami native, spent her days guiding […]


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A Knock on the Window and a Glimpse of America’s Surveillance Future

When agents came to his workplace armed with guns, gas canisters, and artificial intelligence, Abdikafi Abdurahman Abdullahi, known as Kafi, fought back with quick wit and street smarts. The Somali American engineer-turned-Uber driver is one of the few people willing to speak publicly about being subjected to the Department of Homeland Security’s new facial recognition […]


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“How Am I Going to Sell My House With This Crap in My Backyard?”

In the wintertime, when Elizabeth Jacobus steps out onto her front porch for a smoke break, she can see the hulking warehouse through a barren thicket of trees. At night, the 470,000-square-foot facility gleams under the watch of industrial floodlights. “You should come back when it’s dark,” she told me. “It looks like the sun […]


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