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Why America Is Obsessed With True Crime

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In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a street in New York City. He was convicted of murder several years later and given the maximum sentence—25 years to life in prison—on top of three additional years for two other convictions. From behind bars, Lennon began reckoning with his crime through in-prison writing workshops […]

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I Study Fascism. I’ve Already Fled America.

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Jason Stanley isn’t afraid to use the F-word when talking about President Donald Trump. The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the United States is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader. At a time when the […]

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How to Make People Want to Read About Climate Change

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On a reporting trip in July 2023, science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert had an “amazing” stroke of luck. It was her last day in Dominica, in the Caribbean, where she’d been shadowing a group of scientists attempting to translate sperm whale vocalizations with the help of artificial intelligence. While out at sea, she and the research […]

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This Data Scientist Sees Progress in the Climate Change Fight

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It has been 10 years since countries signed on to the Paris Agreement, and emissions and temperatures continue to reach new highs, fueling unprecedented weather disasters around the globe. Meanwhile, the shift to clean energy is facing powerful […]

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Julian Brave NoiseCat’s New Book Explores Indigenous Life, Death, and Survival

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In May 2021, ground-penetrating radar detected more than 200 unmarked graves of Indian children near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada. The discovery prompted US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to announce the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, an investigative review of the legacy of Indian boarding schools in the United […]

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The Radical Life of the Father of the Independent Living Movement

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Even attending university in the 1960s was a revolutionary and complicated process for Ed Roberts, who was paralyzed by polio in his early teens. Now known as the father of the independent living movement, Roberts—faced with many structural hurdles to moving through society—began pushing as a young man to win disabled people the resources to […]

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Two Top Scientists Tackle Trump’s Idiocracy

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This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the 1995 book The Demon Haunted World, the astronomer Carl Sagan warned that the United States was turning its back on science, and that the consequences would be dire. Near the start of their new book, Science Under Siege: How […]

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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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