By nightfall, people all over America had seen the footage. It was barely a month into President Donald Trump’s second term, and a team of black-clad private security officers was violently dragging a woman out of a Republican town hall meeting in Idaho. One agent mumbled that things would get “a hundred times better” if […]
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This article is adapted from Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul (published January 2026 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, all rights reserved). Dwight “Skip” Johnson, 19, returned home from his shift at a General […]
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This article is adapted from Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul (published January 2026 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, all rights reserved). Dwight “Skip” Johnson, 19, returned home from his shift at a General […]
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Last Wednesday, the Trump administration “paused” immigrant visa applications for people from 75 countries, mostly in the Global South, on the supposed grounds that people from those countries are of “nationalities at high risk of public benefits usage.” Since the 19th century, the United States has used “public charge” rules to restrict entry, alleging that […]
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Trump’s Latest Visa “Pause” Targets 75 Countries He Thinks Are Lazy Read Post »
A year ago this month, President Donald Trump granted clemency to nearly 1,600 people responsible for the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. When Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political science professor who studies domestic political violence, heard about the pardons, he says he immediately thought it was “going to be the worst […]
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America’s New Era of Violent Populism Is Here Read Post »
On a dark November evening, I find myself outside one of the units at a garden-style apartment complex in Memphis, its parking lot alight in flashing blues and reds. The police are here—about a dozen cars—responding to reports of a violent crime. I’m accompanied by Mauricio Calvo, a 50-year-old local whose friend Diego lives here. […]
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Phillip Abram is a lifelong resident of the Sydney, Australia, enclave Bondi Beach and a member of its world-famous surf club. The 59-year-old food sector worker starts every day, like many Sydney-siders, by plunging joyfully into the Pacific Ocean. “There are hundreds of Jewish people down there every morning that I know—middle-aged, elderly, young, community […]
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When I first encountered 21-year-old Dilan Pinzón back in April, he was sitting on the sidelines of a soccer field in Oakland, California, clad in cleats and a blue jersey, pondering his team’s fate. It was the third game of the season for Soccer Without Borders Academy, which hadn’t won a single match it played […]
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This Young Soccer Squad Has Never Faced a Rival Like Donald Trump Read Post »
On Tuesday, California voters passed Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s congressional redistricting proposal in response to Texas Republicans’ gerrymandered map, by a sweeping 28-point margin. As I reported in October, high-profile Democratic politicians—including former President Barack Obama—were front and center in an advertising blitz to pass the measure, which would tilt five seats in the […]
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Racial Justice Campaigners Were Prop 50’s Army in the Field Read Post »
A decade or so ago, to help pay the bills, the artist-activist Michelle Browder started giving human-rights tours of Montgomery, Alabama, the city where her family has deep roots. Riding around in a red-and-white trolley, she would delve into the uncomfortable historical truths that many people she encountered either didn’t know about or preferred to […]
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One Woman’s Quest to Reclaim the Ugly History of Black Maternal Health Read Post »
On September 17, Pete Hegseth—newly dubbed our Secretary of War—announced that any member of the US military who needs a shaving exemption for more than a year will be forced out of the service, tossing out a decades-old policy created for mainly Black and brown troops with pseudofolliculitis barbae, a skin condition that makes daily […]
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If Only Pete Hegseth’s Military Shaving Crusade Was Just Stupid Read Post »
After weeks of delays, protests, and threats of arrests, the Republican-led Texas House on Wednesday passed a highly contentious redistricting plan that could give the GOP five additional seats in the US House. “This is racial gerrymandering at its worst. It is something that Jim Crow would be proud of, but it is something that […]
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Texas House Republicans Just Helped Trump Rig the Midterm Elections Read Post »
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