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The “Dual State” Theory Was Invented to Describe Nazis. The Supreme Court Could Take Us There.

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Perhaps the most brazenly illegal action of President Donald Trump’s second term so far took place on his first day in office: an order to deny birthright citizenship to thousands of newborns. Within months, the question had reached the Supreme Court. But rather than affirm the right to birthright citizenship, which is plainly enshrined in […]

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Taking Stock of the Roberts Court at 20—and the Shadowy Forces That Built It

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Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court for 20 years now. In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has completely transformed America and its politics, with many of its most destructive opinions written by Roberts himself. Some effects are already visible in our everyday lives, others are only now coming into focus.  “This is […]

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Alabama’s Poet Laureate Reckons with Personal and Political Grief

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In 2023, while on a group hike through the Sipsey River, Ashley M. Jones, Alabama’s youngest and first Black poet laureate, sat in a clearing and wrote the titular poem of her new book, Lullaby for the Grieving. Four months after she’d been named poet laureate in 2022, Jones’ father, Donald Lewis Jones, died without […]

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The “Chaos and Cruelty” of Trump’s Worksite Immigration Raids

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On September 4, federal, state, and local officers conducted the largest single-site immigration worksite raid in US history. The months-in-the-making enforcement operation by the Trump administration targeted the construction site of a Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant in southeast Georgia. As “word of the raid spread across the property,” CNN reported in the days after, […]

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His Book on Charlie Kirk Was About to Come Out. Then His Subject Was Murdered.

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For the past several years, Matthew Boedy, an English professor at the University of North Georgia, has been working on a book about the Christian nationalist aims of the conservative powerhouse group Turning Point USA and its late founder, right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk. In his forthcoming book, The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan […]

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Trump’s War on Wind Power Has One Very Big Exception

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As Donald Trump rolled down the 18th fairway at his Turnberry golf resort in July, he was troubled by a deathly vision, slowly spinning in the Scottish distance: wind turbines. “These things are massive, and you’re looking at these ugly windmills, and it’s a shame,” Trump lamented in an interview with the New York Post—yet […]

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Can We Feed 10 Billion People Without Destroying the Planet in the Process?

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This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with the Chicago public radio station WBEZ. It is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. . When veteran journalist Michael Grunwald set out to write his third book, he was determined not to produce a “Debbie Downer.” And he hasn’t. That’s surprising considering his latest book, We’re Eating the […]

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Hurricane Season Begins with Trump Gutting the “Gold Standard” Weather Services That Save Lives

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As a native Floridian, the six-month slog of hurricane season that begins June 1 and ends November 30 triggers a certain sense of impending doom. Whether you live by the beach or farther inland, the threat of a storm this time of year is always possible. I’ve experienced several hurricanes at this point, most recently […]

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Hurricane Season Begins With Trump Gutting the “Gold Standard” Weather Services That Save Lives

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To a native Floridian, the six-month slog of hurricane season that begins June 1 and ends November 30 triggers a certain sense of impending doom. Whether you live by the beach or farther inland, the threat of a storm this time of year is always possible. I’ve experienced several hurricanes at this point, most recently […]

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Octavia Butler Predicted Our Dystopian Present. What Can a Futurist Learn From Her Chilling Accuracy? 

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When the Los Angeles fires began last January, the designer and futurist Tracee Worley was re-reading Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler’s chillingly prescient novel, written in 1993 but set in the 2020s. In the book, climate change has devastated the world, an increasingly dangerous and inequitable society has resulted in many people living in […]

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Ugly Laws: The Blueprint For Trump’s Anti-Homeless Crusade

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On July 24, President Donald Trump issued an executive order for a nationwide push to involuntarily commit unhoused people to institutions—claiming that roundups would “restore public order,” and demanding the reversal of legal precedents and consent decrees that “impede” the policy, a draconian move that disability rights groups argue violates civil liberties. The resultant crackdown […]

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An Economy Based on Carbon Waste? Don’t Laugh. It Might Just Save Us.

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The US government is a big-time hoarder. At last count, in three locations—Denver, Fort Knox, and West Point—it had socked away 248,046,115.696 troy ounces of gold. One might think to round that to the nearest ounce, but at today’s prices, that extra 0.304 ounces of gold would fetch about $1,060 and the entire hoard is […]

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