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The Man Who Taught Nonviolence to Martin Luther King Jr.

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Back in February 2010, the radio show State of the Re:Union, created by Al Letson, produced an award-winning episode looking at civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. The episode was called “Who Is This Man?” because while Rustin was not well known, his work supported the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. Rustin was a man […]

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CBS Didn’t Want Colbert to Talk to This Democratic Candidate. He Did It Anyway.

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Executives at CBS News made it clear to Late Show host Stephen Colbert: he wasn’t to interview Texas State Representative James Talarico last night, nor was he to discuss how he wasn’t supposed to talk to the Democratic US Senate hopeful. But Colbert, who only has months left of his tenure on the show after […]

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Murdoch’s Defense in Epstein Lawsuit: Trump Is Lewd

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A version of 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. Sometimes there’s no smoking gun, but there’s the smell […]

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Louisiana Bets Big on “Blue Ammonia.” Communities Along Cancer Alley Brace for the Cost.

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This story is from Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action. Sign up for Floodlight’s newsletter here. From her home in Donaldsonville, La., less than three miles from the world’s largest ammonia plant, Ashley Gaignard says the air itself carries a chemical edge.  The odor, she said, is sharp and lingering. […]

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These Utilities May Be Wildly Overestimating the AI Boom—at Public Expense

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This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As more and more data centers crop up throughout Georgia and the Southeast, a recent study finds they may need less energy than the industry and utilities have been predicting. That could have substantial implications for […]

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Trump Promises Billions in Aid to Gaza as Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Kill 12 Palestinians

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Donald Trump said Sunday that member states of his Board of Peace have pledged $5 billion toward reconstruction and humanitarian efforts in Gaza.  Countries will also send thousands of personnel to “maintain Security and Peace for Gazans,” the president wrote on Truth Social. The pledge will be officially announced during the board’s inaugural meeting on […]

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Tom Homan: Minnesota Should Say “Thank You” for DHS Operation

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On Sunday morning, Border czar Tom Homan said elected officials in Minnesota “ought to be saying thank you” to the Trump administration for making the state safer.  “They were a sanctuary state,” Homan said on Fox & Friends. “Their county jails weren’t working with us across the state. So you know what? We fixed it.”  […]

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US Military Strikes Another Boat in the Caribbean Sea, Killing 3

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The United States military killed three more people on Friday in their 39th boat attack in six months, according to a tracker maintained by the New York Times. All told, the strikes by US forces have killed at least 133 people in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.  President Donald Trump’s administration has […]

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Judges Have Rebuked Trump’s Mass Detention of Immigrants Thousands of Times

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Hundreds of judges across the nation have ruled over 4,400 times that President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement arm is detaining people unlawfully, according to a new Reuters review of court documents. And that’s just since October.  The Trump administration’s immense increase in detainments rests, in part, on their decision to detain people while their immigration […]

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Their Courses Were No Longer Relevant, so These Economics Students Went to Work

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University walked out of their introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and limited view” that perpetuated “a problematic and inefficient system of […]

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Taken by ICE

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Cecelia Lizotte owns Suya Joint, a celebrated Nigerian restaurant in Boston. She’s a rising star in the city who was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2024 and operates two restaurants and a food truck. But last year, a key employee—who happens to be her brother—was detained by ICE.  “I’m not able to operate […]

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Elon is Back? (Edit: He Never Really Left).

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Elon Musk, who formally distanced himself from the White House last year, hasn’t stopped trying to influence American politics. Musk took a step stepped away from the Department of Government Efficiency—the agency he crafted and wielded against long held federal spending practices. But, contrary to what some expected, that didn’t signal indefinite distance from Republican […]

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