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Donald Trump at a rally

Donald Trump Has Been Indicted. Don’t Get Your Hopes Up. Donald Trump Has Been Indicted. Don’t Get Your Hopes Up.

This is the first real attempt to hold Trump legally accountable for any of his many alleged crimes. But the odds of securing real justice seem very long.

Mar 30, 2023 / Elie Mystal

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Testifies Before Senate HELP Committee

Howard Schultz’s Union-Busting Paternalism Howard Schultz’s Union-Busting Paternalism

The former Starbucks CEO faced tough questions at a Senate hearing—and didn’t have much to say.

Mar 30, 2023 / Chris Lehmann

It’s Been a Year. Why Hasn’t Biden Freed Eyvin Hernandez?

It’s Been a Year. Why Hasn’t Biden Freed Eyvin Hernandez? It’s Been a Year. Why Hasn’t Biden Freed Eyvin Hernandez?

The LA public defender was wrongfully and arbitrarily detained in Venezuela one year ago this week. It’s past time for the US government to bring him back.

Mar 30, 2023 / Traci Blackburn, Henry Martinez, and Bahar Mirhosseni

GOP Drag Show Story Time

GOP Drag Show Story Time GOP Drag Show Story Time

Glowing in the glitter.

Mar 30, 2023 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

The West Coast Think Tank Helping to Orchestrate DeSantis’s War on the Woke

The West Coast Think Tank Helping to Orchestrate DeSantis’s War on the Woke The West Coast Think Tank Helping to Orchestrate DeSantis’s War on the Woke

How the Claremont Institute is shaping the Sunshine State’s anti–civil rights and pro-patriarchy agenda

Mar 30, 2023 / Jennifer C. Berkshire

Former Defense Secretary General James Mattis speaks with Richard Haass (right), president of The Council on Foreign Relations, in 2019.

After the Iraq Debacle, Why Does the National Security Establishment Remain Unshaken? After the Iraq Debacle, Why Does the National Security Establishment Remain Unshaken?

Mission unaccomplished—and lessons unlearned.

Mar 30, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A Portrait of Leonard Cohen as a Young Artist

A Portrait of Leonard Cohen as a Young Artist A Portrait of Leonard Cohen as a Young Artist

A posthumous collection of early fiction, A Ballet of Lepers, chronicles how, in fits and starts, the singer came to understand the art of storytelling.

Mar 30, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Sam Sodomsky

Russian soldiers on Red Square

We Still Don’t Know Why Russia Invaded Ukraine We Still Don’t Know Why Russia Invaded Ukraine

From the beginning, the war has thoroughly confounded military mavens and experts on Russia and Ukraine.

Mar 30, 2023 / Rajan Menon

The remnants of a police station which was struck by a Russian missile in Bilopillya, Ukraine.

On the Ukraine-Russia Border, War Is Impossible to Escape On the Ukraine-Russia Border, War Is Impossible to Escape

Civilians in border villages have been nervously going about their daily lives while trying to survive the never-ending threat of Russian attacks.

Mar 30, 2023 / Leif Reigstad

Fossil fuel donations university protest

Fossil Fuel Companies Are Donating Millions to Skew University Research Fossil Fuel Companies Are Donating Millions to Skew University Research

A new report from Data for Progress and Fossil Free Research examines the influence Big Oil and other polluters have in higher education.

Mar 30, 2023 / StudentNation / Abby Saks and Phoebe Barr

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