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Can He Really Do That? Black History Month in the Age of Trump

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Last year, shortly after his second inauguration, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on January 31 to mark the start of Black History Month the next day—just as presidents before him had done, beginning with Gerald Ford in the bicentennial year of 1976. He invoked “heroes such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Justice […]

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Native Families Were Promised Free Solar. Trump Took It Away.

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This story is published in partnership with The Daily Yonder.  It was sunny and warm for the end of November on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation in northern Montana. Joseph Eagleman was standing on a grassy hill, looking at a 20-panel solar array in the backyard of a Chippewa Cree elder. It was built under the Solar […]

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The Right Is Terrified of Bad Bunny

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Bad Bunny, the “King of Latin Trap,” will perform the halftime show at the Super Bowl, promising a “huge party.” But his opposition to the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdown has led MAGA politicos and media stars to spread rumors in an effort to stoke a backlash against the artist. Let’s take […]

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Watch the Epstein Survivors’ Powerful Super Bowl Sunday Ad

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A group of survivors of abuse by Jeffrey Epstein released an advertisement on Super Bowl Sunday imploring for the full release of millions of government files revealing the connections between Epstein and many famous politicians and celebrities. The ad was posted on X by journalist Jim Acosta. It comes a day before Congress is expected […]

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There May Be No Turning Back This Climate Crisis

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold. And climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences, just as […]

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The President’s Lawyers Submitted False Information About a “Law & Order” Plot to the Supreme Court

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President Donald Trump’s legal team submitted false information to the Supreme Court in his ongoing legal battle against author E. Jean Carroll—who he was found liable for sexually assaulting in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996—according to documents reviewed by Mother Jones.  Justin D. Smith, Trump’s lawyer in the case, misrepresented the plot of […]

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JD Vance Booed at Winter Olympics Amid Anti-ICE Protests

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Vice President JD Vance, standing alongside Second Lady Usha Vance, was met with a chorus of boos at Friday’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan. As team USA entered San Siro Stadium, the crowd cheered—but that was cut short when the Vances came on the big screen.  As the New York Times reported, “Their appearance […]

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Japan Embarks on a Deep-Sea Mining Experiment With Unknown Consequences

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The year 2010 was a reckoning for Japan’s economic security.  On September 7, the Chinese fishing trawler Minjinyu 5179 refused an order by Japan’s coast guard to leave disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands, which are known in China as Diaoyu. The […]

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How Minneapolis Taught America to Fight Back

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In a Minnesota town outside the Twin Cities, Emily is a nurse who treats many immigrant patients. She can’t locate a patient who just had a test result that shows they might have cancer. The patient was recently detained by ICE; situations like these have forced the clinic to adapt, making house calls and triaging […]

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Drive Racists Out of Public Life Forever, and Other Lessons From Black History

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On a frigid Thursday afternoon in late January, in a now-viral video, employees at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park were captured removing interpretive signs about slavery posted at the President’s House Site—where George Washington and John Adams both lived, and where Washington enslaved nine people. The outdoor exhibit, installed in 2010 after years of advocacy […]

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Editor’s Note

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This story has been removed. Following publication, we learned that the video that we were told was of a warrantless raid in Memphis was from another incident in a different city. As a result, we are no longer confident of some of the details and media included in the story. We have reached out again […]

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These Haitian Meatpacking Workers Face Deportation. They Voted to Strike Anyway.

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This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them. But despite these threats, the largely immigrant union workers at a JBS beef plant […]

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